Mets vs. Nationals Highlights (4/26/25) | MLB Highlights

On the mound twenty five year old right hander Brad Lord. This will be his fourth start and his seventh appearance. Lord looking for his first win. He faces the Mets for the first time in his regular season career. Francisco Lindor leads off for New York Lindor and Alonzo each without a hit last night that hadn't happened in the game since March twenty ninth. And Lindor gets another fastball and lines it into center field for a lead off hit. And Francisco is now twelve for twenty five. That's four eighty leading off the first inning this year. So here's Juan Soto the former national who has gotten a nice round of applause every time he stands in the rookies ready runner kills the pitch swing and a miss throw to second the tag by Abrams. He is out. How did he miss him. Safe is the call. The door to pop up slide. Lindor pulled his arms back and somehow got his foot in. He decoyed him. He kind of he went in standing and leaned back and Abrams kind of tagged the air. He was expecting a slide and Lindor just fooled him. I mean he almost looked like he was giving himself up. Washington is challenging a safe call at second base. That's going to challenge. Did he get a lot of replay after review the call is overturned. The runner is out Lindor caught stealing for the first time this season and a huge swing there for Brad Lord in the Nationals so quickly two out and nobody on and that leaves it to Pete Alonzo with the bases empty and he starts the wind and the swing and a miss and a fastball running to the outside at ninety six miles an hour. The innings over two strikeouts for Brad Lord a hit and nobody left for New York. It is Clay Holmes day for the New York Mets as we play bottom of the first inning for Clay Holmes. He's making his sixth start and just 10th as a major leaguer. He's been pretty pretty good as an experiment reliever turn starter. But it's still Owen Teal on Abrams for homers nine RBI is an eight thirty eight OPS groundball right back to the mound. Holmes has it floats it over to Alonzo at first who recovers to feel the ball then step to his right to get the bag one away. James would fresh off his first big league walk off last night. James would a slow roller to third. The Antos on the charge down the line and he beats it out just beat it in the ground. Nixon you know just use the wheels. No big deal. So here is Nathaniel Lowe standing in and now it's pouring all of a sudden and the umpires are weaving everybody off the field. Thirteen minutes in they're going to put the tarp on the field. And this is the grounds crew putting the tarp on the watch. Oh no no no no. Don't do it. Oh and they kept going. I mean you got to stop the top. I mean once the guy flips over when Jeff McNeil saw that it's like oh Mac feels his wedged pain. Well we'll see how this goes for Holmes two and one count to Nathaniel Lowe when the rains came and now after a rain delay of a little over 45 minutes Holmes is back to the mound and a scoreless game. And here we go ready to resume three two with one out what it first not going and Lowe lifts one along the left field line Nemo coming over right to the stripe to make the catch in fair territory. He properly throws the ball toward second and that's the second out. Bill has four home runs this year all have come as a left hand batter. Clay Holmes has not given up a home run. He pops this one up into shallow center field and Lindor calling for it puts it away. So Holmes gets two outs after the rain delay and puts the Nationals to bed in the first makers run the count full with two out and nobody on. And Jesse lines went up the middle for a base hit. That's a terrific turn it back for Winker. Fouled off a couple of tough fastballs got a ninety seven mile an hour heater to handle and he has the second head of the game. Francisco Alvarez who went one for four in his season debut yesterday and Alvarez flies one down the right field line slicing toward the corner and it's out of here. A two run homer for Francisco Alvarez in his fifth at bat in the season kept it fair inside the right field foul Paul first home run of the year for Alvarez and it's to nothing New York. Now looking for the two out RBI here in the third with Demo batting the door at second Alonso at first Lord ahead of a one and two swing and a fly ball center field should end the inning. Jacob Young moving in is there and he will make the catch. Good job by Lord a strand a couple of hits to nothing Mets ahead top of the fourth inning and Mark Vientos leads off against Brad Lord. Lord delivers swinging a groundball left side sliding stop Taino to his left pops up throws to first and gets his man Jose Taino continues to shine defensively. That's maybe his best play yet a sliding stop to his left and a good accurate sweeping throw across the diamond. He knew once he made the play and spun around up to his feet he had a lot of time to get the throw over there. Nice play inside target for Ruiz. Here comes the pitch swing and it's golfed in the air shallow center Winker not happy about it. Abrams puts it away. So here is Alvarez the big hit in the game to run Homer three to swing and a line drive right field it's hanging up for Cruz now the ball knuckling and he dives and he makes the catch. Cruz thought he had it sized up he had to go in and to his left and he makes a nice diving catch with the glove pops up Eduardo Salazar pitching for the Nats as we go to the fifth inning liner over short and it's too tall for Abrams and McNeil's got a lead off hit that ball just kept on rising and it rose beyond the reach of Abrams second A.B. today for Luis Angel Acuna sends one over to second Garcia backhand and flip to Abrams return throw to first got him Acuna can scoot and a pretty four six three turned by Garcia and Abrams to out of nobody on. And now here's Francisco Landau who's already two for two in this game. That is a perfect but by Landau has been trying to do it all series long and that time but did it straight as a string for a hit. The beauty of having the third baseman play so far back you just got to ensure that you get it down three for three for Landau today and now Soto's struck out and fly to left. Soto fouls one off. Great job Kramer. They're saying that's a fair ball. I thought it hit Soto in the box. Great job. Kramer bounced out picked it up in fair territory and throws out Soto Garcia takes a strike knee high at ninety six and Garcia lines went out to right center at a fall and Louie having another nice night two for three and he's a board leading up to seven. Cruz hooks one through the hole on the left side. Two for three today there's two on with one out for the Nats here against Reed Garrett one from Garrett and Tina hits one deep to center field. Taylor though has room backing up to make the catch taking his second as well. We'll go over to third. Cruz holds it first to out. So Garrett gets a big second out and now he'll face the number nine hitter Jacob Young. Young lines one for the middle but there is a good Garrett gathering the soft line drive to at the end. Danny Young turned in a scoreless inning so did Reed Garrett and now Mitter trying to follow suit and that cut her away. Mitter seemed to take a bad step there. Yeah I think he hurt himself. He's going to get a visit on the mound. Remember he's coming off hip surgery and he certainly appeared to have something happen as he delivered that pitch. So Mitter is coming out of the game. Anthony leaves with a three and one count on James Wood. Fastball misses away and a walk to James would bring the tying run to the plate here in the form of Nathaniel Lowe to two struck him out. Got him with a slider Kranich strikes out low for the second out of the inning. It's quite a showdown. Bill who is up there swinging at everything able to foul off a couple of tough pitches again. The two to high fly ball shallow right field backing up as a Cunha calling all the way and a Cunha has got it not easy for Max credit to come in cold after the injury to Mitter. But he strands a runner at first base. So two out and two on and now the only offensive force in this game. Francisco Alvarez will come to the plate waving swing and a miss. He struck him out with a slider. Nice job by Rutledge comes in and strands to inherited runners. Edwin Diaz has some ugly numbers to his credit so far this year. But on the positive side he is six for six in save opportunities and he goes down swinging a wave at the slider for strike three. It's certainly not Luis Garcia's best work and ball for so a four pitch walk to Ruiz and the Nats will get the tying run to bat. We's at first and one out three to the Cruz struck him out came upstairs with a fastball to man down. Now the Nats are down to their final out of the night. And here's Jose Tena he struck him out and the ball game is over. Edwin Diaz strikes out three in the ninth for his seventh save of the year.