QUEENS, N.Y. — The Mets found a way to fumble their first of two chances on Thursday to win a game in 2024, allowing three runs in the 11th inning to fall to the Detroit Tigers 6-3 in Game 1 of their doubleheader at Citi Field.
Colt Keith put the Tigers up 4-3 with a one-out, RBI double in the top of the 11th inning off reliever Michael Tonkin, who was the man on the mound for the Mets’ 10th-inning implosion on Monday night. Gio Urshela put the visitors out of reach with a two-out, bloop single to score two more.
Detroit scored one run in each of the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings to overturn a 3-0 Mets lead — a Riley Greene solo home run in the eighth off Mets reliever Adam Ottavino bringing Game 1 of the doubleheader back to square one.
Francisco Alvarez went 3-for-5 with a two-run double in the third inning but came up empty with a chance to win it in the ninth by grounding into an inning-ending double play with runners on first and second. Brett Baty added an RBI single in the fifth for the hosts, who dropped to 0-5.
Alvarez’s go-ahead double down the left-field line gave the Mets their first lead since the fourth inning of Opening Day, scoring Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso with two outs.
Alonso’s second single of the afternoon with one out in the fifth inning knocked Tigers starter Casey Mize out of his first game back on a big-league mound since April 14, 2022, after undergoing Tommy John and back surgeries. He finished with three runs allowed on five hits with four strikeouts and two walks.
Against reliever Joey Wentz, Baty put the Mets up 3-0 — the run being charged to Mize — with two outs in that very same inning, driving in Alonso with a poke-job single to the opposite field in right.
Mets starter Adrian Houser’s debut meandered into the sixth inning but was done without recording an out in the frame when he allowed a lead-off walk and single to put Tigers runners on the corners. Reliever Brooks Raley yielded a…
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