Brandon Nimmo and Juan Soto drove in two runs apiece, Francisco Lindor homered among three hits and scored three times, and the New York Mets opened a three-game road series against the San Francisco Giants with an 8-1 win Friday night.
Clay Holmes limited the Giants to one run in five innings in a duel of All-Stars against Logan Webb, sending the Mets to their fifth straight win.
It took just four batters for New York to build a 2-0 lead on Webb (9-8), who served up a game-opening double to Nimmo and single to Lindor before Soto produced the first run with an infield groundout and Pete Alonzo the second with a sacrifice fly.
Lindor’s homer, his 20th, gave the Mets a 3-1 lead in the third before the visitors took charge with a three-run fourth.
Singles by Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez before a Ronny Mauricio walk loaded the bases for Tyrone Taylor, whose fielder’s choice grounder scored Baty. After Taylor stole second, Nimmo made it a 6-1 game with a two-run single to center.
Webb was pulled at inning’s end, charged with six runs on eight hits. He walked one and struck out four.
Successfully kicking off a six-game California swing, the Mets tacked on in the ninth when Luisangel Acuna scored on a wild pitch and Soto followed with an RBI single.
The Giants got their only run off Holmes (9-5) in the last of the first when Heliot Ramos led off with a single, advanced to third on a double by Rafael Devers and scored on an infield out by Willy Adames.
A walk to Matt Chapman put two on with one out, but Holmes escaped the jam and preserved a 2-1 lead en route to allowing just the one run and six hits in his five innings. He walked one and struck out two.
Huascar Brazoban, Rico Garcia and Jose Castillo combined for four scoreless innings of relief, allowing just three hits.
Nimmo and Soto finished with two hits apiece for the Mets, who out-hit the hosts 10-9.
Ramos and Jung Hoo Lee had a pair of hits each for the Giants, who have lost seven of nine. The hosts went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position.
–Field Level Media
