Bo Bichette gave the Mets the kind of night they had been waiting for, and Griffin Canning got the finish they needed. New York beat the Mariners 7-1 on Wednesday in Seattle, ending a five-game losing streak at T-Mobile Park and snapping Seattle’s eight-game winning streak.
The win mattered because the Mets were not just trying to salvage one game. They had dropped the first two in Seattle, losing 3-2 in ten innings on Monday and 8-3 on Tuesday, and had scored all five of their runs in those games only on home runs. Wednesday finally gave them a complete offensive night, with seven of nine starters collecting at least one hit.
Bichette was at the center of it. He went 4-for-4 for his first four-hit game as a member of the Mets, scored once and drove in three runs. AJ Ewing had three hits, while Jared Young and Luis Torrens each added two. After an 0-for-16 stretch, Bichette’s turnaround stood out as the clearest reason the lineup looked different for a night.
That does not erase the broader problem. Even with the big game, Bichette has still been one of the biggest hindrances in the lineup, and one night of clean contact does not change the questions around how long the Mets can keep waiting for more. The club will have to decide whether Wednesday was the start of something or just the kind of outlier that has kept the middle of the order from settling in.
The result sends the Mets into three games in San Diego with a 27-35 record, a number that still matches the weight of the trip. They have lost 20 of 34 games at Petco Park since 2015, but they are also 16-16 against the Padres in that span, which is about as close to even as this season has allowed them to be. After Wednesday, the road trip is no longer about damage control. It is about whether New York can turn one sharp night in Seattle into something it can carry south.
