For two innings last night, the Mets were involved in a competitive baseball game. Steven Matz had given up one run in the top of the second—on an Asdrubal Cabrera home run—and the Mets hadn’t scored yet, but nothing alarming had happened. In the third, things really started to go south.
Matz gave up four runs in the top of the third, two on a home run by Trea Turner and the other two on a home run by Juan Soto, the latter of which was estimated to have traveled 463 feet.