Rockies vs. Mets Game Highlights (5/30/25) | MLB Highlights

David Peterson grew up in Colorado he is pitching against his hometown team tonight coming off perhaps his most important start as a Met when seven and two thirds against the Dodgers when the Mets needed it the most. David's good friend Kyle Freeland who also grew up in Denver pitching for the Rockies tonight. He is the former number one draft pick for this ball club. Remember back in 2018 he won 17 games for this Rocky team. Senior Peterson and you can see the sparkling earner on average. Excellent walks only 22 and 58 innings. Ezekiel Tovar has been playing well lately since coming back from the injured list but he strikes out on a changeup and Peterson has his first strike out of the night. Two men away and Hunter Goodman right hand hitting catcher drives one out to center Taylor ranging back gets there to retire the side. Peterson has a one two three opening inning that's a come to bat at the bottom of the first. Kyle Freeland in his career tonight is his 12th starting year. He's pitched well against the Mets. Yeah and especially here at Citi Field four ball games three starts he's one and one but a 237 ERA and tier point overall in six ball games a 3 0 3. Francisco Lindor just four for 25 on this homestead is batting average down to 269. Lindor gets under one deep left center back in the gap goes back back near the wall. Francisco Lindor leads off the bottom of the first inning with his 11th home run of the year. That's his fifth leadoff home run this season and the Mets jump out to a quick one nothing lead. The last 24 games in which Lindor has hit a home run the Mets have won the game. That's the longest such streak in Mets history. Freeland comes back with a strikeout at the Antos Alonzo the second base with his 30th extra base hit of the season. Alonzo at second with two down. He's Brandon Nimmo. Nimmo back up the middle fortunately stationed right there with Tovar. That'll end the inning. So Lindor goes deep for the eighth time leading off the game in his Mets career. One nothing New York. A one out single and it'll bring up Ryan McMahon the guy who's got power. Then he blew him away high fastball. Peterson's got his second strikeout. That'll bring up Kyle Farmer. Farmer it's a weak ground ball to Lindor. He gets the force that retires his side. Middle of the second one nothing New York. Tyrone Taylor coming up. Off the bat and you could see by the glare of Tyrone Taylor he thought he had extra bases. Jordan Beck thought otherwise. Maybe the surroundings here of Citi Field will get Michael Tolia on track. Tolia though drives this one of the gap and left center racing back is Nimmo and he gets there. Brandon has played such an outstanding left field this year. In fact coming into the day he is second among all major league left fielders in defensive run safe. And so back to back hits from the nine and one hitters and the Rockies have something working here at the third. Ezekiel Tovar at Citi Field. A robust 480 average and he struck him out. Went to the curveball bounced it. Tovar chased it. That's what these Rockies will do. Third strikeout for Peterson two out of the inning. And on four pitches Goodman walks to load the bases. So Tyrone Estrada it's just the second Rocky at bat. A chance to impact this game early. Ball drilled caught by Lindor. Side retired. Peterson hung a curve. Estrada hit a rope and Lindor shows off the hops to pull it down and keep the Rockies off the scoreboard. So here's Lindor who's already hit five lead off home runs this season. That's lined up the middle of base hit for Lindor and he's two for two. So Francisco has been struggling at the plate as a home run and a hard hit single in his first two at bats tonight. So two outs here is lefty Juan Soto and that's ripped toward right center field a base hit for Soto. It goes all the way to the wall. Lindor around third. He's going to be waved home. Soto pulls in at second base with an RBI double and the Mets have a two nothing lead. At 0 for 17 in the history books as Soto drives in his 26th run of the year. Dreaded Doyle who has one of the three hits off David Peterson leads off. Swing and a miss. He gets Doyle who loses the at bat and the helmet. That's the slider for the right handers that David needs to hone in on. It's unhittable and I hate to say that. No why? Because it's not in the strike zone. Here's Marte who fouled out his first time up. Here's the one one. Marte slams this one deep left center field. Doyle on the run. He looks up. It is gone. A powerful home run for Marte just to the left of that home run Apple into the seats behind the party deck. Second Met home run of the night. Marte's third of the year and it is three nothing New York in the bottom of the fourth. Starling Marte had been kind of starving for a little power and he hit it out. That was a bomb from Marte. Here's Tyler Freeman right hand batter. Ground ball to the left side. Vientos lets it go to Lindor. Nice throwing. Alonzo with a nice pick to retire Freeman. That was awkward for Lindor because Vientos was kind of in his way and Alonzo did a nice job picking it out of the dirt. When that's in between hop very good Pete. Oh outstanding. Working the bottom up. Well done. Not an easy pick. Mark Vientos will be next. Vientos' tough night continues. He struck out three times twice looking to Freeland. Top six Ezekiel Tovar coming to the plate. Here's the 0-2 coming. And he struck him out with a high fastball. Peterson strikes out Tovar for the third time. That's five K's for David who's retired eight in a row. And Estrada got hit by that pitch. Two outs he'll go to first for Brent Doyle. This is smoked into left field off the glove of Vientos. It'll be a base hit for Doyle and now the tying run will come up in Ryan McMahon. Well he's there. Doesn't get the glove there. Making a score that a base hit for Doyle his second head of the game. Jeremy Hefner out to talk to Peterson who will get one more batter with the left hand hitter McMahon coming up. And Mack lines it to right. It's going to get in that corner. Scoring easily is Estrada. Doyle can fly. He's going to get a stop sign from Andy Gonzalez. So it's a run scoring double for McMahon. It's three to one and that will be all for David Peterson. Rosabond's coming in. They're going to pinch hit Vicky Moniak for Kyle Farmer. And Moniak flies one out to left. Nemo drifts over. Now backpedals and makes the catch to retire the side. Two pitches and Rosabond gets out of trouble. Three one Mets in the sixth. The Soto with base hits and back to back at bats. And the Mets have the leadoff man on in the sixth. Topino Alonso coming up. And that's hit up the third base side backhanded by McMahon. Throws his second for one onto first and got him at first base as well. Great turn by Tyrone Estrada. Let's see if the Mets might want to challenge a very close play at first base. But a great job by McMahon to start that double play. No challenge by the Mets as a ground ball hit to shortstop. Right there is Tobar is going to go to first base with a runner breaking and he makes a play. Good work in the inning by Kyle Freeland. Three to one. Rockies trail after six. Sam Hilliard now will pinch hit for Tyler Freeman. Hilliard was just recalled today. This ball is well hit to deep right field. Did he get enough? You bet. Welcome back Sutton Sam. It's a one run game. How wonderful that must feel for Sam Hilliard. Tyrone Taylor will lead things off on the ground. Deep short. Tobar gets up. Can he throw it out? Out at first. Are you kidding me? What a play by Tobar. I don't how he could bounce back up that quickly and make as strong of a throw as he did. Good stretch by Tolia as well. Francisco Lindor leads off at the bottom of the eighth. He set the tone tonight with a first inning home run. And Lindor smacks one to deep left center field. Back in the gap goes Doyle near the wall and it's out of here. Francisco Lindor with his second home run of the night. They call it in play but it clearly went off the railing. That's going to be a home run. They turned the lights off because it was a home run. The second base umpire called it in play but it clearly was a home run. The second of the night for Lindor and they're going to have to go to review for this unless the umpires can figure it out on their own. Ball clearly hit the railing above the fence. That's a home run. We see it all the time here because of the way the the fence is configured. If the ball comes off hard like that you know that it hit the railing. 21st multiple home run game of Lindor's career. And the Mets get the insurance run they were looking for. They now lead at four to two. Ninth inning four to two New York. And Edwin Diaz who has been a perfect and save opportunities this year will bid for his 12th of the year. And McMahon foul tips the fastball for strike three. Three pitches sit out. One down in the night. Right now Edwin Diaz is as locked in as he's been since his historic year in 2022. Again the three two struck him out. Went to the fastball on three and two. Back to back strikeouts for Diaz. Two men down. Michael Olds for three with a strikeout. Check swing did he go around? Yes he did. Strike three. Couldn't hold off at the fastball. Put it in the books. Edwin Diaz strikes out the side in the ninth inning. The opposition is now old for their last 30 against Diaz. He nails down his 12th save.