The New York Mets beat the Braves 7-6 on July 6, 2026, finishing a comeback with Luis Torrens' game-winning double in the tenth inning. Juan Soto had already dragged them back into the game with a three-run home run, and the Mets took a result that had been slipping away for most of the night.
The win mattered because it came in the Mets' fourteenth extra-inning game of the season, a reminder of how often they have been forced to play past regulation and how thin the margin has become in close games. Soto also walked three times, then watched Torrens drive in the run that finally ended it.
That finish was hard to see coming after the Braves moved ahead 2-1 on Jim Jarvis' RBI single in the bottom of the second, giving him his first major-league RBI, and then stretched the lead to 3-1 when Matt Olson homered over right field in the bottom of the third. Carson Benge had opened the scoring for the Mets with a home run into center field in the top of the second, but the Braves kept answering before New York found a way back.
The Mets did not cleanly earn that comeback. Their defense was shaky enough to let Atlanta keep pressure on the game, and the night had the feel of a team asking its hitters to erase mistakes on the other side of the ball. Even so, Francisco Alvarez cut the lead to 3-2 with an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth, and the inning after that A.J. Ewing drew a walk before Soto took his third walk of the game, another sign the Mets were still seeing enough pitches to stay alive.
Freddy Peralta was pushed to 103 pitches in the bottom of the fifth before he was replaced after striking out Mauricio Dubón, which helped turn the game into a long test of endurance rather than a clean nine-inning finish. The Mets won it anyway, and the result split the second series of the season against their division rival. For the Mets, that is the story of this one: a late offensive rescue, a messy enough fielding night to keep the game open, and Torrens' double deciding what the defense could not.
