Mets snap 12-game losing streak, top Twins with Mark Vientos go-ahead single 39%
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4/23/2026, 2:05:26 AM
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Just when the Mets thought they were out of the woods with Juan Soto's calf injury, down went Francisco Lindor with one.
Yet somehow, the Mets managed to snap their 12-game losing streak Wednesday night at Citi Field.
"Winning is fun," said right-hander Clay Holmes.
"Just to feel the win again and to see everybody smiling, it's a great feeling."
In the bottom of the eighth, Mark Vientos made up for an earlier miscue with a single to score the go-ahead run.
The Mets edged the Minnesota Twins 3-2 to put an end to the franchise's worst losing streak since 2002.
With two out and runners on first and second, Vientos flared a sinker from right-hander Justin Topa off the end of his bat to shallow right field, where it dropped between converging defenders.
Brett Baty scored from second base, breaking a 2-2 tie to lift a tremendous weight off the shoulders of the Mets.
"I feel like now we can just go play," Vientos said.
"It's still early, it's still April.
We wanted to get this one out of the way, and we can just go play now."
They may have to play without Lindor, their star shortstop who exited the game with left calf tightness.
If it's a low-grade strain, similar to the injury Soto had on his right calf, the Mets could be looking at 2-3 weeks without Lindor.
You cou couldn't even script a month as ridiculous as this one.
Producers would reject it, saying it's not even remotely realistic.
But when it comes to the Mets (8-16), the truth is always stranger than fiction.
"It's not very often you have such a talented team where everything just doesn't really click in the right way.
It's quite an impossible feat, but we made it possible," said right-hander Luke Weaver, who worked 1 1/3 innings to pick up the win (2-0).
"But at the end of the day, we're going to use this as a learning point and hopefully, a catalyst for the future."
A sparse crowd showed up on yet another unseasonably cold April night to watch the Mets go up 1-0, then 2-1.
The Twins (12-12) tied the game twice.
If it weren't Bark in the Park, the crowd would have been even more sparse.
There were boos and barks alike.
They deserved the boos in the bottom of the sixth.
After Byron Buxton homered off Holmes in the top of the inning to tie the game, the Mets sent four hitters up to face left-hander Kendrys Rojas.
Three reached base.
There were two walks and a double, but no runs scored.
Baty, hitting for Lindor after he left the game, led off with a walk, and Francisco Alvarez promptly hit into a double play.
Vientos then walked, and made an ill-advised decision to try to score from first base on a double to left field by Marcus Semien.
Credit Vientos for trying to make something happen, but Swaggy V has never exactly been fleet of foot.
He was not stopping, despite third base coach Tim Leiper throwing up his arms to try to hold him at third base.
"I was just following my instincts," Vientos said.
"Once I saw the ball that was hit off the wall, I was like, 'I'm going to go score on that.'
They gave me the stop sign, but I followed my instincts, and I went home."
Vientos threw his helmet off as he rounded third, but the Twins were well ahead of him.
He was out by a mile.
"Depending on the situation, we want to make the right play, but I'm always going to be aggressive," Vientos said.
"I'm not going to play passive on the baseball field.
I'd rather be aggressive.
I'd rather make a mistake being aggressive than passive."
His manager, Carlos Mendoza, may have something to say about that once he sees the play again, but for now, he's just happy the Mets found a way to win.
"I'm glad he got that hit later," Mendoza said.
Unlike Vientos, Lindor did score from first base on a double, this one by Alvarez in the bottom of the fourth.
He appeared to lose steam rounding the bases, and stayed down for a few extra seconds after sliding into home.
He walked gingerly off the field and into the tunnel.
He went 2-for-2 on the night, driving the first run of the game off left-hander Connor Prielipp, who was called up to make his MLB debut (four innings, two earned runs, six strikeouts).
Holmes had yet another solid start.
The Twins took two runs off the right-hander on five hits over seven innings, walking once and striking out three times.
Holmes has yet to allow more than two earned runs in a start this season.
"It's not easy losing games, especially when you get that type of starting pitching," Mendoza said.
"But good teams find a way to win games like that.
I'm confident that we'll start doing that here pretty soon, especially with the way our starters are continuing to throw the baseball."
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