Bo Bichette was the difference when the New York Mets finally broke through in Seattle. After losing the first two games of the series, they beat the Mariners 7-1 on Wednesday to salvage the finale and head to San Diego with a win instead of another skid.
The result mattered because the Mets had dropped five straight at T-Mobile Park before Wednesday and had managed only nine runs over that seven-game losing streak in Seattle. This time they scored seven in one night, while the Mariners came in riding an eight-game winning streak overall and never found a way to match New York’s pace.
Bichette delivered his first four-hit game as a member of the Mets, scoring once and driving in three runs. AJ Ewing added three hits, and Jared Young and Luis Torrens each had two as the lineup produced the kind of steady traffic that had been missing through the first two games, when New York lost 3-2 in 10 innings on Monday and 8-3 on Tuesday.
The performance also brought a sharper look at Bichette, whose numbers still leave the Mets with a question in the middle of the order. He had gone 0-for-16 before Wednesday, and even after a four-hit, three-RBI night, he remains one of the biggest hindrances in the lineup when he is not producing. The Mets do not have the luxury of waiting long for that to change, especially with a three-game set in San Diego next and a record of 27-35 as they arrived there.
That trip carries its own weight. Since 2015, the Mets have lost 20 of 34 games at Petco Park and have split 16-16 against San Diego overall, while the Padres took four of six from New York this past year and swept all three games in San Diego. Wednesday’s win did not erase those numbers, but it at least kept the West Coast trip from ending as a complete retreat and gave the Mets a cleaner way to leave Seattle behind.
