Braves vs. Mets Game Highlights (6/24/25) | MLB Highlights

The Mets have lost nine of their last 10. Their starting pitchers have gone five innings or more only once in those 10 games. And today, the Mets get one of their off-season acquisitions on the mound for the first time. Frankie Montas signed a two-year, $34 million deal with an opt-out after one year, but he's missed the entire season so far with a lat injury suffered in spring training. The results were not good during his rehab start. You want to, on those minor league rehabs, have one of those outings where at least you know they have five or six really good innings. That didn't happen. But he's had a lot of success in the major leagues, and they expect him to go five strong tonight. He'll be basing Ronald Acuna, Matt Olsen, and Marcelo Zuniga here on the top of the first inning. In there for a call strike three. Got him with a fastball at the top of the zone. And Montas has a strikeout against the first battery faces as a Met. So it's a one-out walk for Olsen. That extends his on-base streak. It's the longest current streak in the big leagues. Man aboard for Marcelo Zuniga. Zuniga off the end of the bat. Shallow center. That falls. Matt Olsen read it well. So he's going to get to third. And the Braves have runners at the corners with one way. An opportunity here in the first. Runners at the corners. One out. Austin Riley, the cleanup hitter, coming up. Pulled down to third. Nice play by Beatty. Out at second. Mauricio in first. Play side retired. Beautifully done on a smash by Riley. Beatty starts the 5-4-3 double play to get Montas to the first. And on the mound, the right hander, Spencer Strider. His last two starts have been very good. Right hander from Knoxville, Tennessee. Six feet tall, 195 pounds, 26 years old, and making his eighth start of the season. Lindor, two for four last night, batting 273, 16 homers. Yes. At the knees. Lindor caught looking, and there's one away. That will bring up Brandon Nimmo. First down. First pitch. What a stop by Ozzie. Then he bobbled it, but still made the play. And a great scoop by Matt Olsen as well to get Brandon Nimmo. Being able to stay on his feet, and you can see that ball rattling around his glove. It recovers nicely, and not surprised to see Matt Olsen on the other side, picking it once again. And so Soto draws another walk, and it will bring up Pete Alonzo. Alonzo, soft liner to Riley, and the first inning is in the books, scoreless. One out for Nick Allen. No score in the third. Nick Allen's going to stroke one up the middle. Turned around a sinker to base it into center field, and there's the second hit of the night for the Braves. So he's on with Ronald Acuna Jr. coming up. Payoff pitch with Allen going. It's low anyway. So the Braves with two on here, with one away. And that extends his on-base streak to 20 games in a row. Olsen has already reached tonight. He's been on base 25 games in a row. And Olsen strokes one to deep left center. McNeil back at left room at the edge of the warning track. He'll go to third. A long second out. Acuna staying at first base. So now it's in the hands of Marcelo Zuna, who is one for one with a single. Ronald breaks for second, and he will get in there easily. And walks there without a throw. And that'll be his 200th career steal. I don't know that I've ever seen a milestone steal look quite like that. 3-2 coming. And he struck a nine. He chased that fastball. And Montas works himself out of a jam at the third. It's back to the first base. Spencer Strider on the mound for the Braves as we go to the bottom of the fourth inning in Queens. Yes. Says home plate umpire Adam Hamrey. And that takes care of Nemo. And there's his fifth strikeout of the game. So two more walks tonight for Juan Soto, who already leads Major League Baseball. He now has 66 walks. And here's Pete Alonso. He takes a wide lead. And there he goes. No throw by Baldwin. And Soto steals the base. And Alonso rips one in the center for a base hit. Soto going to be held at third. As Harris balloons a throw in. And Alonso holds a first base. So Alonso singles. Soto goes to third. And it's Tommy Marte coming up. So again, the Mets will ask their middle to bottom of the order to try to drive in some runs. Usually not a tough ask. But lately, it has been. These guys have really been struggling. Four, five, six on down through nine. So here's Marte. And it's well outside ball four. And the bases are loaded. And even going to third. And coming back to yesterday. The Mets didn't have a situation like this. Anything that they had was that late last at bat from Juan Soto in the eighth with first and third. They were only 0-2 last night with men in scoring position. But now, fourth inning, a chance to pounce. Soto at third. Alonso at second. Marte at first. McNeil up. Lifts it out to left. Over toward the line comes Verdugo. He makes the catch. Here comes Soto. Verdugo's throw to the plate is not in time. And the Mets have the lead. McNeil delivers the first run of the night with a sacrifice fly. 1-0 New York. And Terrence draws the walk. Third walk of the inning. Fourth of the night for Strider. And the bases are loaded again for Brett Beatty. To Beatty. Lines one toward the middle. Base hit. Alonso's in. Here comes Marte. He'll score. On to third goes Terrence. Brett Beatty catches a pair. And it's 3-0 New York. A little hang and slider didn't do any much. Just a little flick of the wrist. No overswing. Slider out over the plate. Everybody running with two outs. So the walks have cost Spencer Strider. 3-0 New York. And it's a two for two night for Nick Allen. Now a chance to make something happen. You've got Allen at first base. One down for the top of the order. Swung out and missed. Strike three. Got him with a fastball up. And for Montauk, strikeout number five. Two men away. And Olsen smacks one in the ear to right. I think he got under it. And Soto drifts over to make the catch. Well, that's probably it for Frankie Montas. Eighty pitches through five shutout innings. On to pitch the sixth. The right hander, Huascar Brazoban. What a name. Huascar. And the 3-0 has taken a low. Ball four. And on four pitches, Brazoban with a 3-0 lead walks the lead off men. That one is definitely a ball. Back-to-back walks. Can the Braves capitalize here in the sixth inning? The payoff pitch. And he does walk him. He walked Ozuna. He walked Riley. And now a free pass to Baldwin. Bases loaded. Nobody out. Two games. Two thirds of an inning against the Braves. Six walks. He is not comfortable pitching against these guys. They've got to make them pay, as you mentioned. Albies with a pop-out to the catcher and a pop-up to right field. Ozzie lines it out to right. Soto has it. But the Braves will get on the scoreboard here. Ozuna comes home 3-1. That's going to be it. And I agree with this move right here, bringing in the lefty. Jose Castillo coming on here for the bats out of the bullpen. All right. So the Braves will counter by replacing Verdugo with Eli White. Liner off the glove of Beatty. They won't even throw home. Riley gets in there uncontested. It is 3-2. Eli White got just enough mustard on it to get it off the glove of Beatty and zip it by him where he couldn't squeeze it. And now down to second base goes Baldwin. Braves have him at first and second in a one-run game. So now a base hit could tie the game. And the bat in the hands of the man who is most due for a base hit, Michael Harris. Boom. Comes up and hits him at 95. All right. Watching the replay, Darren, looked like it got him on the elbow. He does wear an elbow guard. But I think that got him just above the elbow guard out on the tricep side. He just had no time to get out of the way of it. Now he'll head down to first base. Well, the hottest hitter for the Braves tonight is the man climbing in, the guy batting ninth, Nick Allen. He's two for two with two singles. And the bases are loaded one down. Allen liner base hit. He's three for three. And he's tied the ball game. Has come through in a big way tonight. Yes, Allen has been a major pest. So Brazoban struggled. Castillo struggles. Now Garrett will try and bail them out. Three-two coming. He went around strike three. I think he went. Yeah, it's a good call by the first base umpire, James Jean. Close. Two down now for Olsen. Olsen line drive. Base hit out into right center. Two will score. Atlanta has played it. Five in the sixth to grab the lead. That is such a clutch hit by Matt Olsen. And Atlanta is now in the driver's seat. What a big A.B. That is huge. It's turned into a five-run sixth inning. A complete meltdown by the Mets bullpen in the sixth inning. So much to celebrate in this ballpark for the first two months of the season. The Mets started out 27-7 at home. The best 34-game start they had ever had at home. Now they've lost four straight home games and they've let a three-run lead get away in this game. Well, Michael Harris out of the game. Michael hit by a pitch in the top of the inning, remained in the game to run the bases and scored, but has not gone out into the field defensively. So the Braves outfield. It's Fairchild and left. White in center. Acuna, of course, still in right field. And that one misses. So two walks tonight for Acuna. That means he extends that streak. He has now reached base multiple times in 14 consecutive games. That's the longest streak, by the way, since some guy named Chipper Jones in 2004. Now here's Matt Olson. And he does it again. This one is going to plug the gap all the way to the wall. Ronald is on his horse. He's around third. He scores to give the Braves some cushion here in the eighth inning. What a game for Matt Olson. He has driven in three of the six. Then they have been clutch. Daniel Nunez will become the latest Mets reliever. Braves have a 6-3 lead. Runners at first and second. Two down. Here's Austin Riley. Riley turns on it. Deep left. Off the wall. Olson comes home. Osuna will stop at third, but it's an RBI double for Austin Riley. And the Braves have now scored the last seven in this ballgame. A cue shot by McNeil will end up with him pulling into second standing with a ground ball double. The Mets' first hit since the fourth inning. That's lined into center. A base hit for Young. McNeil goes to third. He'll stop there. And the Mets have runners at the corners with one out. They need just one more base runner to get the tying run to back. Now a safe situation for Iglesias. So he'll come in and try and get the final two outs as the Mets try to rally at the ninth. Golf strike at the knees. Huge K from Iglesias. Beaty is fired up, but that one was a strike. Mauricio, last hope, trying to get on. Two-two coming from Iglesias. And he rips one deep right field. Back goes Acuna toward the corner. He can't get it. It's up against the wall. McNeil is in. Young stops at third. Mauricio with an RBI double. It's now seven to four. And Lindor will come to the plate as the tying run. Boy, will this be a big win. Now Lindor has been skunked tonight. Over four with two strikeouts. Tying run at bat. Seven to four in Atlanta. Two out, bottom of the ninth. Bouncing ball on the right side. Albies has got it. And the Braves have now beaten the Mets five straight times to start the season series.