Mets walked off by Oswald Peraza, fall to Angels, 4-3, in extra innings

As it turned out, thanks to replay, Soler was tagged out before Schanuel touched home plate which should've canceled the run from counting. However, New York either didn't see it or caught it too late because nobody in the dugout challenged the call, which is a reviewable play, on the field. The mental lapse cost McLean and the Mets a run. Would it come back to bite them?

-- New York would get the run back in the third inning. After Slater, in the Mets' starting lineup for the first time because of lefty Reid Detmers on the mound, doubled with one out, Bo Bichette drove him in with a two-out single. Slater had a good game and finished 2-for-3 alongside his outfield assist at third base from right field.

-- McLean followed up the missed call in the first inning by retiring the next seven hitters in a row before issuing a one-out walk in the fourth. The inning began innocently, but a single and a wild pitch, the right-hander's first of the season, put runners on second and third with one out. McLean managed to strike out Josh Lowe for a path out of the inning, but after getting ahead in the count 0-2 to Vaughn Grissom, he left a sweeper in the zone that Grissom lined into center field for a two-run single. McLean lost Oswald Peraza to a single after getting to two strikes as well before finally ending the inning with a strikeout.

Not only were the three earned runs the most allowed by the rookie in the first four innings of his career, it was also the shortest outing of his career after he was not given the fifth as Tobias Myers took over to start the fifth inning. McLean's final line: 4 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 6 K. His season ERA rose to 2.97.

While it wasn't the right-hander's best performance, the decision by manager Carlos Mendoza to pull him after just 78 pitches (51 strikes) was certainly interesting.

-- As for Myers, he found himself in trouble immediately after the first two hitters he faced reached base. He managed to escape without allowing a run and ended up going 2.2 scoreless innings.

-- Thanks to Myers' efforts, the Mets were able to hang around before tying the game in the seventh. Still facing Detmers, who had been cruising right along, Mark Vientos began the seventh with a double down the left field line. Marcus Semien followed with a single to put runners at the corners with nobody out and Andy Ibañez, in his Mets debut, drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.

New York continued to play solid baseball after Semien stole a crucial base with one out to advance to second in front of Tyrone Taylor who knocked him in with a game-tying single. The Mets would end up loading the bases, knocking Detmers out of the game in the process, but were unable to push across the go-ahead run against the Angels bullpen after Bichette grounded into a force play and Juan Soto struck out to leave them loaded.

-- Things stayed tied through the bottom of the ninth inning where Craig Kimbrel was tasked with sending the game to extra innings. Things got dicey after pinch-hitter Yoan Moncada doubled with one out to bring up the top of the order, but Kimbrel struck out Zach Neto for the second out and New York wisely intentionally walked Mike Trout, already 2-for-4 on the night, to pitch to Schanuel who grounded out to end the inning.

-- In the top of the 10th inning, after the Mets got the first batter to reach, Bichette grounded into a double play and Los Angeles returned the favor by intentionally walking Soto to face Francisco Alvarez who popped out to end the frame. In the bottom half of the inning, Austin Warren came in and walked the first batter he faced before allowing a single to load the bases.

After Warren nearly escaped the jam by retiring the next two hitters, Peraza stroked a two-strike single into left field for the game-winner. Mets pitchers not being able to put away hitters with two strikes was a theme for most of the night and the miscall in the first inning that New York failed to review cost them dearly in the end.

Game MVP: Oswald Peraza

He finished 3-for-5 with the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 10th inning.

Highlights

What's next

The Mets close out their series with the Angels on Sunday afternoon starting at 4:07 p.m. on SNY.

RHP Clay Holmes (3-2, 1.75 ERA) looks to keep his fantastic beginning to the season going and will face off against RHP Jack Kochanowicz (2-0, 3.09 ERA).