Marcus Semien had four hits, including a home run, Juan Soto led off the game with a homer, and the New York Mets beat the Colorado Rockies 10-5 in Denver on Wednesday night.
MJ Melendez, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez had two hits apiece, Freddy Peralta (2-3) scattered four hits in five shutout innings and Devin Williams earned his fifth save for New York.
The game was originally scheduled for a 1:10 p.m. start but a snowstorm moved into Colorado on Tuesday night and didn’t end until early afternoon Wednesday.
TJ Rumfield homered among his three hits, Jake McCarthy also went deep and Tyler Freeman, Edouard Julien and Troy Johnston had two hits each for Colorado, which has lost six in a row.
Soto hit Michael Lorenzen’s third pitch into the seats in left to give the Mets the advantage, and they added to the lead in the fourth. Baty led off with a walk and went to third on Semien’s bloop double to right. Benge drove them home with a single, and he eventually scored a groundout by Luis Torrens.
New York padded the lead in the sixth. Semien led off with a single, Benge doubled and Semien scored on Alvarez’s single. Zach Agnos relieved Lorenzen and hit Torrens with a pitch. Soto’s sacrifice fly brought in Benge, Alvarez scored on Bichette’s single, and Torrens came home on a groundout and throwing error by second baseman Julien to make it 8-0.
Lorenzen (2-4) allowed seven runs on 11 hits in five-plus innings. He walked three and struck out two.
Peralta issued two walks and fanned one.
Colorado halved its deficit in the bottom of the sixth against Tobias Myers. Rumfield led off with a home run, and Freeman and Johnston doubled to make it 8-2. After Myers retired the next two, McCarthy crushed his first homer to cap the four-run inning.
Semien answered with a two-run homer in the ninth, but the Rockies responded in the bottom of the inning. Mickey Moniak hit a one-out single to extend his hitting streak to 18 games, two more singles loaded the bases, and a run scored when Sean Manaea hit Freeman with a pitch.
Williams struck out Jordan Beck and Kyle Karros to end the Mets’ third consecutive win.
–Field Level Media
