Christian Scott gave the Mets exactly what they needed Friday night at Petco Park: another calm, scoreless start and another reason to believe their rotation has found one dependable arm. The right-hander worked 5 2/3 innings in New York’s 5-0 win over the Padres on June 5, 2026, allowing three hits and two walks while throwing 98 pitches.
That outing lowered Scott’s ERA to 2.50 and gave him his second straight win after he went 15 starts to begin his major league career without one. For a club that entered the night needing more reliable starting pitching, the performance mattered as much for what it said about Scott as for the shutout itself.
The Mets found enough offense early to let him settle in. Jared Young opened the scoring with a home run leading off the second inning against Michael King, Bo Bichette added an RBI triple in the third, and Luis Torrens delivered a two-run homer in the fifth for a 4-0 lead. Bichette finished 2-for-4, while Torrens’ first homer of the season sent a more emphatic message about the depth around Scott than any single at-bat could have.
Scott’s start was his 17th in a row to open his major league career with four or fewer runs allowed, a franchise record, and eight of those outings have come this season. In his previous two starts against Miami, he worked 10 2/3 innings and allowed one earned run, and the recent run has begun to look less like a hot stretch than a baseline. Scott said feeling good physically has been a huge part of that, and he added that confidence is easier to find when things are going well but has to be protected when they are not.
The one spot where the game tightened came late in the sixth. Scott came within one out of completing six innings for the first time this season, but he was lifted after Manny Machado’s single. Manager Carlos Mendoza said he had hoped Scott would get Machado because it was his last batter, and added that Scott executed a sweeper before Machado got a fastball up the middle, but by then the right-hander had already done his job. Huascar Brazobán struck out Ty France to end the threat and keep the shutout intact.
The Mets won their second straight game and improved to 28-35, a small step in a season that has still left them searching for stability. Scott, who missed last season while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, has become part of the answer. With Francisco Alvarez potentially nearing the end of a rehab assignment and the rotation still needing innings, New York can least afford for Scott’s pace to slow now. What comes next is the real test: whether he keeps this run rolling the next time the Mets hand him the ball.
