Pirates vs. Mets Game Highlights (3/28/26) | MLB Highlights

That's coming off an opening day win on Thursday, 11-7 over the Pirates. Francisco Lindor takes the field with some of the kids, Mr. Smiles. David Peterson was all-star last year, but he faded over the last two months of the season. He gets his first start today. With all the changes, David Peterson is now the longest tenured Met hard to believe. We see David Peterson's stats from last year. We talked a lot about how he faded at the end, but career highs last year in strikeouts, As Peterson gets set to go to work against the shortstop, right-hand hitting Jared Triolo, who batted sixth and went one for four on opening day. We're ready to go. Peterson's first pitch hit on the ground to third. Picked on one hop by Bichette down to an eight, and he throws to first in time. One pitch, one hard ground ball out. Bern had a nice year with the Orioles last year, 8-0-3 OPS. He was an all-star. They really added some offense, the Pirates did. Grounded behind the bag at first. Polanco bobbles. Peterson gets out of cover, and Polanco recovers in time to get the out. It's the second one in two games that Polanco has not fielded cleanly, but still been able to make the play. It's like they're testing him here at first base, and there he is. He gets in front. The ball kind of came up, but he was in front of it. Keeps the body, keeps the ball in front, and a nice, non-panic recovery. Put the nice feed to Peterson. So, two batters, two ground balls, two outs. And now the switch hitting left fielder, Brian Reynolds. And he blows away Reynolds for the third out. So, Peterson, who was dandy in the first inning all of last year, has a 1-2-3 first. And here's Mitch Keller. Like I said, he's been a workhorse. 32 starts last year, 176 in the third innings of work. Mangum in right center, Jake Mangum. Just looks like a ball player right there with the eye black on the cheeks, ready to play. Juan Soto had two out of four on Thursday, including an RBI single. Curve ball hit up the first baseline foul that went off the foot of Soto. And Juan really hobbles as he trots way out of the right-hand hitter's batter's box. On a cold day, it hurts even more. Chopper, there's Triolo, and gets him. So, two outs. Soto limping just slightly as he walks back to the dugout after that foul ball off his foot. Mitch Keller picks up the strikeout of Beau Bichette. And both pitchers retire the side in order after one. Gonzalez, who played for Mexico in the WBC, playing third base in the early season for Pittsburgh. And on 3-2, Peterson goes to the breaking ball and strikes out Gonzalez. And that's the second out. Well, good breaking ball here. If you're going to be a big league pitcher, you've got to be able to, behind in the count or in a 3-2 pitch, be able to deliver that breaking ball. Peterson working very quickly so far early in this game. David set down the first five, three ground balls and two strikeouts. Here's Brandon Lau. Lau lifts it in the air behind third. Bichette broke back. Now sprints into foul ground near the coach's box, slides, and makes the catch. Bichette covered a lot of ground there, first behind him and then hustling in front of him. Again, the wind, as we mentioned, blowing in from left, played some tricks on Bichette. But it's a foul out, and the Pirates go in order. Brian Reynolds leads off a fourth inning. It's been all pitching so far. Rounded down to third. Bichette's had a busy afternoon already. And that one wide, and Palaco that time can't make the tag. So Bichette's had several of those throws that have trailed to the right of first base. And this is the first one that costs him an error. Is it any different in terms of how you're aiming the ball, throwing from short as opposed to throwing from third? It's across the diamond. I just feel that if you're running that ball into the runner, you're throwing more three quarters or sidearm. And you got to get on top. So you have error walk to start the inning. Never good. 0 and 2. Here comes the next. Swing and a miss. Struck him out on a slider. Peterson does get the strikeout of Gonzalez when he needs it. So runners to the corners with two down. Past the mound, but semi and right at the bag. Steps for the force. Peterson gets out of trouble in the fourth. Still no score. Ball, Bichette climbs in. 0-1. Hit hard down the right field line. Base hit by Bichette. Headed toward the right field corner. Cut off by York, excuse me, who fires in and holds Bichette to a single. But Bichette has a hit. That is his first Mets hit. And the Mets have their second hit of the ballgame. Full count on Robert. Here it is. Swing and a little ball poked out toward short. And free all the way into the outfield grass underneath it. He's got it. And that ends the innings. Well, Mitch Keller and Joey Bard are arguing with Quinn Wolcott, the play-down partner, because Keller didn't get to finish his warm-up tosses because it's not by how many tosses you get, how many throws you get anymore. It's by the clock. And so once the clock ticked down to 25, Quinn Wolcott said, that's it. That's your last one. And there was no catcher there. And so he was one or two pitches shy of what he would probably normally like to throw, but they didn't have a catcher out there the whole time. So the Pirates actually messed up on not having the catcher. Alvarez grounded out his first time. Nice. Well, Mitch doesn't need any more extra warm-up pitches. Go ahead and take care of Alvarez right there. Sequence got ahead of him, then went to the sweeper, and then finished him with a two-seam fastball. And that exploded down and in. That was one of the better sinkers we've seen out of Mitch today. Third strikeout, back-to-back caves for Keller. Driven to center field, Mangum on his horse. And Mangum, what a play. Jake Mangum. Off the bat, the dead sprint. What a play by Jake Mangum. I mean, he made that look easy right there, Brown. He played it absolutely perfectly. Scales the wall. Keller couldn't believe it. What a play by Mangum. Two-out single to a guy like Juan Soto. He'll take that. Now get both the shots. Ryan O'Hearn. Cat-like quickness for the Pirates' first baseman. Some excellent defense by the Pirates in the bottom of the sixth inning. Luke Weaver in to make his Mets debut. Two up and two down. One of them kind of the hard way. And here's Brian Reynolds, switch hitter, batting left. So the Pirates with their seventh hit of the day. A two-out single for Reynolds. They can't get a hit with a man on base. They've left the last four straight innings, they've left nine men on base. Luke Weaver gets the job done with a score of seven. Lawrence walks the first two batters of this seventh inning. Now it's Brett Beatty who's one for two. And you got a righty on deck in Marcus Simeon and then another lefty, Carson Benj. The Benj and Alvarez in the nine-hole here. Those are the two guys that went back-to-back against Justin Lawrence on opening night here. One ball, two strikes. Nobody out. Nice. Gigantic strikeout for Lawrence. That is huge right there. That's a good sweeper from Justin Lawrence. 3-2 coming. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. A defensive swing on that sweeper. And Lawrence walks two, strikes out two. Benj is coming up. And Lawrence is coming out. Here comes Donnie Kelly. And, of course, he's not going to get a chance to face Benj again after Benj homered off him. So he got four batters. Soto in his career has limited lefty batters to a 2-11 average. He struck out Benj. Gregory Soto comes on to strike out the rookie, Carson Benj, and keep this game scoreless. The master of the airbender changeup, Devin Williams, makes his Mets debut. One of the most unique pitches I've ever seen in his generation of pitchers. It really is, to me, almost like a screwball to go along with that 95-mile-an-hour fastball. Struck him out. Got him with the fastball. One out. Williams didn't waste any time with his off-speed pitch. All heat. Jake Mangum with speed at the plate. And slaps it past third. Jake Mangum thinking two. And the second base with a hustling double. Jake Mangum. Bobachet playing up on the grass to try and take a punt away. And was able to sneak it down the third baseline just past the diving Bobachet over there. And great base running. I mean, he was out of the box. He was cruising around first base thinking two all the way. What a game he's played, Jake Mangum. It's a ball player. Mangum at third. O'Hearn at first. With two down. One-two from Williams to Reynolds. Struck him out. Devin Williams comes up and in to get Brian Reynolds to keep it scoreless. Going to the bottom of the ninth at Citi Field. Polanco goes to second. Now one out. Brett Beaty coming up. Let's see what the Pirates do here. And again, Santana has plenty of wiggle room here with first base open. So Beaty knows he's not necessarily going to see a fastball here. Lined. Oh, picked! Byron and turns it into a double play. Looked as though the game was over. But Ryan O'Hearn makes the play. We're going extras in New York. Luis Garcia. He pitched the ninth inning on Thursday. And gave up three hits and two runs. Let's see what Nick Gonzalez does right here. Be nice to see him swap places with Brian right now. And Nick Gonzalez delivers a base hit to center field. To give the Pirates the lead in the 10th. Nicky G. Breaks the scoreless tie in the 10th inning. Gonzalez at third. Lau at second. Davis at first with two down. One and two to Jake Mangum. Broke it back. The shuttle taken to the bag. Side retired. So the Pirates get a run. Garcia leads them loaded. Mets will come to bat. Down 1-0. The Pirates one run and 10 hits. They've left 15 runners on base. The Mets no runs and three hits. So now Mark Vientos will get his first plate appearance of the season. And he hits it off the ground toward the hole. Base hit. Big bird is going to be held up there by Tim Laper. And the Mets on the bases loaded with nobody out. Luis Torres is the batter. With the bases loaded and nobody out. Tying run at third. Winning run at second. Line to left field. Base hit by Torres. This will bring Beatty home. He scores standing up. The throw coming in is cut off. We're tied at one. Everybody else moves up 90 feet. Now you've got Lindor, Soto, and Bichette. Due up with a winning run 90 feet away and nobody out. Slowly hit. Play at the plate. High, but the out call. And here's Juan Soto now with one out. Check swing. Slow roller. Barco field. Shovels. Gets the out. Barco with a great play off the mound. And they get the force at home for the second out. Wow. What a play by Barco. Hunter Barco. Cool as a cucumber. The rookie shovels it to Davis. Two outs. So now it's left to Bo Bichette. The infield and outfield drop back with two out. Fly ball to right field. Billy Cook and Hunter Barco. Phenomenal work in his third major league appearance. And that will bring up Brian Reynolds to face the veteran, Richard Lovelady. Two outs. And he hits one softly up the third baseline. The left and right will stay there and a run will come home and the Pirates go back in front. How do you like that? Pirates take the lead. That will work right there. Hunter Barco will go to the bottom half with a one-run lead. Outside ball four. And Polanco walks to the third straight time. And that puts the potential winning run on base again. It will bring up Luis Robert. Swing and a high fly ball. Well hit. Left center. It's got some legs. Back near the wall. It is gone. Put it in the box. Luis Robert Jr. has won the ballgame for the New York Mets with a two-run home run. Luis Robert's first home run as a New York Met is a three-run walk-off home run. And the Mets win it 4-2 in the 11th. We've been saying it since the day he was signed. He is really the potential X-factor on this team. A guy with unlimited potential who has not really reached it in his six years on the south side of Chicago. But he just provided himself with a Mets moment in just his second game in Flushing.