Bo Bichette's go-ahead double vs. Twins helps give Mets series win

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News on Apr 23, 2026

Published in Baseball

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NEW YORK — Don’t look now, but the Mets have won two games in a row.

A 10-8 win over the Minnesota Twins on Thursday night at Citi Field gave the Mets their first series win in four tries. They won in a way that only the Mets could: They used two starting pitchers and one long reliever; they made mistakes on the basepaths, then made up for them with runs, most of which were unearned, and they did it without star shortstop Francisco Lindor.

Brett Baty and Carson Benge each homered off right-hander Joe Ryan, with Benge going 2 for 3 with a double. Bo Bichette, batting leadoff for the second day in a row, went 3 for 5 with a go-ahead, three-run double, and Marcus Semien went 2 for 4 with a double.

Bichette broke a 7-7 tie in the bottom of the eighth off left-hander Anthony Banda, countering the grand slam hit by Ryan Jeffers in the top of the inning.

Of the seven runs Ryan gave up over five innings, only four were earned. It was a good showing for the offense-starved Mets against a very good pitcher.

The game started in disaster for the Mets when right-hander Christian Scott walked four hitters in the first inning to give up a run without even giving up a hit. Called up to make his first big league start since 2024, it took Scott 33 pitches to get out of the first inning. The Mets let him start the second, but after another walk, a balk and one out, he hit Byron Buxton in the ribs with a pitch and was yanked.

Scott had a stellar start to his rookie campaign in 2024, but it was cut short when he tore his ulnar collateral ligament. He underwent Tommy John surgery and the Mets kept him out of action all of last season to save his bullets for this year. Stuck behind a rotation without minor league options, the club had no choice but to start him in Triple-A out of spring training.

Coming back to the big club this week, Scott spoke about being hungry after his nine-game stint in the big leagues in 2024. It’s the right attitude, but the wrong execution.

The game became a back-and-forth battle from there. Tobias Myers took over for Scott, tossing 2 1/3 innings, then left-hander David Peterson, who went 3 1/3.

In the bottom of the first, Baty gave the Mets a 3-1 lead with his home run. The Mets scored three more times in the bottom of the second to go up 6-1. The Twins scored an unearned run in the top of the fourth, but Benge sent a massive shot all the way out to the Shea Bridge in the bottom of the inning to make it 7-3.

Peterson gave up a home run to Tristan Gray in the sixth, and the Mets went quietly against right-hander Andrew Morris after Ryan left the game.

In the eighth, Craig Kimbrel loaded the bases before turning the ball over to Huascar Brazobán, who gave up a game-tying grand slam to Jeffers. The Twins (12-13) had all of the momentum going into the bottom of the inning, but the Mets had the resolve.

The Mets showed more grit and offensive firepower than they have all month in the bottom of the eighth when they loaded the bases with two outs. Bichette cleared them, doubling off the left-center-field wall He just barely missed out on his own grand slam by inches.

Brazobán got the first out of the ninth before handing the ball to closer Devin Williams, who finished the job for the save (three), but not before making it interesting. The struggles continued for Williams, who gave up a run and put runners on second and third before finally striking out Trevor Larnach to end the game.

It was wild from start to finish, but that’s simply par for the course for the Mets (9-16) this month.