Mets vs Rays (9/2/26) | Mets Highlights
The Mets got big hits from Jared Young and Brett Baty in defeating the Rays 10-4 but the night belonged to rookie Nick Morabito who notched his first major league hit, a bases-clearing double and did it on the defensive end as well with a diving catch in left field.
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I, I look So everything that I've been saying up here is his approach down there.
Pulled toward the hole.
That's a base hit.
Bichette to third.
He's being waved around.
Mesa has a strong arm.
The throw to the plate, it's dropped.
It kicks away.
Now breaking for the plate is Benge, and he will score.
Hicks could not handle the ball, and the Mets score two runs.
It's been a laborious first inning for Jackson.
Simeon pulls one up the back.
That's a fair ball going down the line.
Young will score.
Simeon heads to second.
He's in with an RBI double, and it's 3-0 New York.
Driven out to left field.
Simpson going back, and he's not gonna get there, and it's off the top of the wall.
Three runs are gonna score.
Brett Beatty clears them with a three-run double, and the Mets have a 6-0 lead.
That's hit the other way.
Le Door can't get to it.
Base hit.
Walls will come around third and head to the plate.
Now the Rays have their first run of the night.
Mets gonna get their bullpen up again.
Palacios hooks one toward the right field corner.
That ball is out of here.
Richie Palacios with a line drive two-run homer, and now it's 6-4.
Jonathan Aranda leads off.
Aranda strokes one out to left.
Chasing Beatty back to the warning track.
Oh, he jumps, and he makes the catch.
Beatty looks like he had it tracked, but then it took off, and he makes the leaping grab for a very hard first out.
So now two out, and it's left to Nick Morabito, his first at bat of the game, looking for his first big league hit.
2-2 coming.
And he lines one down the line.
Fair ball.
Fair.
That goes into the corner.
Benge is in to score.
Here comes Young, now Simeon.
All three will score.
Nick Morabito's first big league hit is a three-run double.
9-4 New York.
All right.
That's driven to right field by Soto, and that's gone.
Juan Soto with a bolt into the seats in right field for his 23rd home run of the year, and the Mets now up 10-4.
With the big lead.
Looped out toward left.
Morabito, a long run.
He dives- Oh and he made the catch.
Oh, wow.
What a night for Nick Morabito.
First big league hit drives in three, and now he lays out to join the psychopaths.
