Mets vs. Braves Game Highlights (6/17/25) | MLB Highlights

Schwellenbach off that complete game the first of his career last Wednesday against the Brewers. He was so sensational. I don't know that you're going to get another complete game but hopefully another solid start here tonight. Two and oh with an 08 six against the Mets Francisco Landau leads off really swinging the bat well has been hot over his last 15 games but Schwellenbach quickly calms that bat. Ninety eight swing and a miss and a good start for Atlanta pretty much pound in the zone right there. A couple of fastballs by him. Strike three right there. Ninety eight up in the zone Brandon over the last eight games hitting three fifty three with a ten fifty two OPS one one popped up foul ground coming over Riley over by the Mets dugout has room and makes the catch and two down Soto hitless in his last two games three hits shy of a thousand for his major league career and he drives one well the center field back goes Harris to the warning track of the wall. It's out of here. Juan Soto puts down his marker in the first inning for Juan Soto his thirteenth home run in thirty nine games in his ballpark is fourteen for the Mets this year and the Mets strike first against Schwellenbach. It's one nothing New York. That's a really important start for the Mets because runs are going to be few and far between if Trent continues against a guy like Schwellenbach is the one one on the way to Alonzo on a ground ball up to second on the other end as he's got it takes that swift ground ball throws it over the first base for out number three and that ends the top of the first inning David Peterson day for the Mets. So we talked about Schwellenbach coming off a complete game. Peterson is as well his last time out first of his career against Minnesota last time out. He has just gotten better with every start. Braves have kind of been his kryptonite last three starts against Atlanta. Oh and two of the seven three six era couldn't you just name National League Player of the Week and he takes a wide ball for White hits it down to first Alonzo gets the out there. Now they've got a Kuhn on the rundown and Lindor put a tag on three three six double play for the first two out. Now Matt Olsen has got four home runs in 16 career at bats against David Peterson. He grounds one down to Alonzo and Pete makes the overhand toss to hand grab by Peterson. Smartly done McNeil right now with an 18 game on base streak the longest current streak in the major leagues. He rips one in the right field and he's on base again. So a lead off single for McNeil stretches his on base straight to 19 games and the Mets have a lead off base runner in the second. Well Schwellenbach did not walk a single batter in that complete game performance against Milwaukee. But he does issue a walk here to Alvarez. Swing and a miss. Ninety eight from Schwellenbach to get Mauricio a good pitch there in on the hands. Couldn't get to it. Tyrone Taylor with two out and two on and Taylor flies one to shallow right long run in for a Kuhn coming toward the line and he dies. He can't get it. It's down for a base hit. McNeil is in here comes Alvarez the throw by Acuna not in time. It's a two run bloop double for Tyrone Taylor and the Mets have a three nothing lead in the second inning. Well Acuna is back and he's hitting but he's just not running a hundred percent. That's a play where on a healthy knee he probably makes the play and he comes up limping a little bit as he goes back to his position. Back to the top of the order and Lindor checked out he went so Lindor down on strikes again but the Mets add to so two out and nobody on now as he all these. Chopped into the ground. Mauricio will have to hurry here as he beat it out in field single. So first hit tonight for Atlanta and now the catcher Sean Murphy and he had to change up on the ground to McNeil takes his time throws him out all six of his outs have come on ground balls in the first two Soto delivered his 20th home run against the Braves his first time up. And there is for so he's on base once again his 61st walk and the Mets have a one hour base run. It's rare that Schwellenbach walks to within the first three innings but that's what he's done here tonight. Comes with one down that'll bring Pete Alonso up to the plate while Schwellenbach got Soto leading. Ozzie applies the tag and there are two away. Alonso is going to reach here. The only question is will he be at first or second. He's going to go for second. Ozzie gets there and the Panthers frozen out at second base a base running blunder two of them for the Mets at the top of the third ball for his walk to Cunha for the second time. Here's Eli White Eli White singles out to right field. So the Braves try to put together a little two out rally. So the Braves are runner in scoring position for the first time and now Matt Olsen Peterson a big spot here against a guy who has hit him hard in the past. Three one drop down in the right center. Cunha is going to come home to score the first run tonight for Atlanta and all of this guys with two outs two out walking can make someone pay like that. It's huge. Runners are the corners two down Bronstein Riley and Ronnie pulls one down a third. Mauricio's guy gets the force play that retires the size as Taylor to run double as last time tenth double of the year snapping what was an O for his last eight stretch that's driven deep to left by Taylor going back his wife back near the wall. Get out of here. Tyrone Taylor with his second extra base hit of the day his second home run of the year. Taylor's got three of the four RBI's and the Mets lead four to one Tyrone on an O-two pitch and he clubbed it. Tyrone Taylor may be one of the few that has Spencer Schwellen Bach's number. And this is a new Mets team against same old Schwellen Bach who's been so good he gave up two in runs all year against him last year. Four of them tonight one out for Alonzo who's one for two and he lines this one at a right center for a base hit. So Alonzo is two for three six hits now for the Mets against Schwellen Bach. And here's McNeil who has one of the liner right at Allen double play what a throw by Nick Allen. He unloaded that quickly to get Alonzo over at first base. David Peterson has been churning and burning today with those round ball outs and that has been a lot of very swift innings on the defensive side for the Mets who have held on to this four to one lead and Olsen pulls one of the ground McNeil with a nice sliding stop and he throws him out McNeil using both knees. Austin Riley since he came up in twenty nineteen at 19 home runs against the Mets and ties him for the most home runs against the Mets since twenty nineteen. And Riley goes down swinging on that back foot slider third strikeout for Peterson. He's now retired eight in a row. So these two pitchers Schwellen Bach and Peterson both of whom threw their first nine inning complete games of their careers their last time out Schwellen Bach working in the seventh and Peterson undoubtedly will be doing the same one two from Schwellen and he got him splitter. That's that devastating pitch. And he had Jared Young out in front one to blew a slider by him but he swung on and missed for strike three oh two oh three swung on and missed it a splitter. Another strike after Schwellen Bach he strikes out the side Spencer Schwellen Bach seven innings four run six hits. Looks like he's done for the night. David Peterson still trucking here's Michael Harris and he gets Jim but bloops at the shallow left on comes Nemo and he's got it side retired David Peterson back on the mound bottom of the eighth basing Nick Allen the nine man and he walked him all for us at least get somebody up in the Mets bullpen. And now you flip the lineup card over to Acuna lines at the other way at the sinker that time a solid single for Acuna Atlanta two on nobody out. Garrett is coming in with two men on Peterson out after seven innings plus and Reed really is the fireman Alex Verdugo will bat for Eli White to give them a left handed bat against Garrett Verdugo out to right center it falls and the bases are loaded with nobody out. What a prime spot for Matt Olsen in there for a call strike three got him looking at a splitter and Garrett gets the big first out of the inning one out base is still loaded for Riley and Riley Skyes one shallow right field not deep enough to get a run in Soto is under it makes the catch. Allen comes two steps down the line and then holds up to a boy Garrett's one out away from Houdini and again the Braves got the big bear coming up zero Grand Slam so far and twenty five for the Braves. So this could be the perfect time for the first one. Ozuna lines it down the left field line Marcello Zuniga delivers and this ball game is tied. Maybe that's the jumper cable jolt the Braves needed right there. So many times this team has had opportunities where they needed exactly that and they were denied this time against their hated rival the Mets. They find a way and tie up the game. Tell you what I don't know if this team has needed a hit more than they needed that right here on the pitch for the Braves is Dylan Lee. It's Soto Alonzo and McNeil Soto lines one past Almey's at a right field a base hit and Soto's got his second hit of the night. So the Mets of the time breaking run at first and Alonzo at the plate Pete's two for three tonight first pitch to right field and deep Acuna at the wall he reaches up to grab it. He didn't know what the call was. Wow what a turn of events. Rano tracked it perfectly went right up into the air and robbed it from hitting the wall. What a play. The umpire was real late making the call. He caught that Clayton. There's no question I was going to say that I know you're looking for the umpire there. But if you're Soto you are right there looking at that. You've got to know he caught that. How many base running mistakes can the Mets make in one game. And Dylan Lee has his bacon save. I'll say two down bases empty for Jeff McNeil. Got him. We go to the bottom of the ninth inning tied at four. Edwin Diaz in the pitch to the top of the ninth. And now the rookie catcher Drake Baldwin will bat for Nick Allen in on the ground right at Lindau. And we're going to extra innings. Diaz works a one two three bottom of the ninth for four heading for the 10th and the Braves in the 10th inning are going to bring on Rice Elegias. The Mets unable to move Luis San Hello Cunha with either of their first two batters. Now they're in danger of leaving him stranded in the air. Shadow left center. Williams back and he's got it. What a confidence builder for Rice Elegias Braves will try to win it in the bottom of the tenth. Watska Brazoban will try and hold the four to the bottom of the tenth after the Mets failed to score in the top of the tenth. The Mets going to walk a Cunha intentionally. That makes perfect sense. And now Verdugo with a pitch single in the eighth will come to bat with first and second and nobody out. Verdugo set to swing and he pops it up infield flyer will be called. The batter is out. That is a huge out for Watska Brazoban. Now Olsen in the dirt gets away from Alvarez. Runner starts for third and then stop and they throw to second. And instead Williams keeps going to third and he'll make it a huge mistake by Alvarez. He had Williams hung out between second and third and instead of running at him he threw behind him and Williams gets to third base easily. I walked him anyway. Bases loaded multiple times tonight the Mets have had outs on the base paths and here in the bottom of the tenth inning the Mets give the Braves a break with runners on the base pads. And now you just need a sack fly to win this game and the batter will be Austin Reilly. Now a chance to win it and that's going to do it. It's caught but it waves walk off the Mets. We'll see how it all turns out. But this could be the type of ballgame that turns things in the right direction. The Mets fourth consecutive loss first time they've lost four in a row this season and the Braves walk it off in an amazing comeback win against the Mets.