Brian Reynolds hit a three-run homer and Alexander Carnerio cracked two couples to lead the host Pittsburg Pirates on New York Met’s on Friday night in a three-game series opener.
The 402-foot-ninth of the Renolds’ 402-foot-run-six-sixth-sixth-sixth-sixth-sixth-to-sixth made it by 9–1 pires, who stopped the two-game skids and won the third time in five matches.
The necklace broke the two-game winning streak for Mets and had his 11th defeat in the last 14 matches.
The Pirates jumped ahead with four runs in the second off-mets starter David Peterson (5-4). Jeed Triollo’s single, Kennero’s first double and a Isia Kenner-Falfa ran each in one run, before the Tommy Fam contributed to the RBI Groundout.
Peterson conceded five runs on seven hits and three walks, while 4 came out of five in innings.
Kiner-Falefa, Ke’Bryan Hayes and Andrew McCutchen made two hits in each for Pittsburgh.
Juan Soto cut the Met’s deficit 4–1 in the fourth, with his 20th home run of the Pirates Starter Mitch Keller (2–10) season.
Keller recorded his first win since March 28, Keller did not score any other run.
Brett Batty posted two hits for New York.
Brandon Nimmo was hit by a pitch on the left wrist by Reliever Genesis Cabarera in the eighth, but remained in the game. Cabarera started his team, with a 1 1/3 shutout innings with a strike.
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