DENVER -- Not even a May snowstorm can cool these Mets.
Imagine reading that sentence one week ago, as the Mets headed West having lost 17 of their previous 20 games, with several key hitters on the injured list and no obvious path to improvement. Many of the problems that plagued them still linger today. But give the Mets credit: In spite of it all, they’ve won four of their last five, returning from a 48-hour weather hiatus on Wednesday to down the Rockies, 10-5 at Coors Field.
Juan Soto hit the first leadoff homer of his career, and Carson Benge continued his hot hitting with a two-run single to back Freddy Peralta, who delivered five shutout innings for the victory.
After winning the opener at Coors on Monday, the Mets had to wait two days to play again due to a winter storm that dumped several inches of snow on Denver between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Not even that unseasonable force of nature could arrest the Mets’ momentum. Batting leadoff for the second straight game and just the fourth time in his career, Soto's opposite-field homer against Michael Lorenzen opened the game and kept their flow going.
Mets hitters didn’t begin pouring it on, however, until the fourth, when Benge hit a two-run single off Lorenzen and Luis Torrens drove him home on a groundout. Two innings later, the Mets plated four more runs on an eight-batter rally that included RBI hits from Francisco Alvarez and Bo Bichette. Marcus Semien added to the scoring in the ninth, with a two-run homer, capping the Mets' first four-hit game of the season.
Every Mets batter reached base at least once on the evening, with five of them recording multi-hit games. It was enough cushion for the Mets to survive even that inevitable Coors Field comeback, which the Rockies attempted with four in the sixth off reliever Tobias Myers.