Rays use 6-run inning, strong relief work to beat Mets, 7-5

Marc Topkin, Tampa Bay Times on Jun 13, 2025

Published in Baseball

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NEW YORK — Danny Jansen hit a two-run homer to cap a six-run sixth inning as the Rays rallied to beat the Mets, 7-5, on Friday night.

After Rays starter Taj Bradley was knocked out in the fifth inning, five Rays relievers held the Mets down.

Edwin Uceta did the heaviest lifting, getting the last two outs of the seventh with two on, then three in the eighth, the last a 110.8-mph missile off the bat of Juan Soto that Josh Lowe snared at the right-field wall.

The Rays, after dropping the last two games in Boston, improved to 37-32 in winning for the seventh time in their last 10 games and 16th in 22.

The Rays trailed 5-1 going to the sixth inning when they rallied against the Mets bullpen to score six with five singles, a run-scoring groundout and Jansen’s double.

The Rays took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Jonathan Aranda led off with a homer into the second deck of the right-field seats, his eighth of the season but first since May 26.

That didn’t last long, though, as the Mets scored two.

Bradley helped created the jam, failing to make the play on a slow roller by Soto toward first. A Pete Alonso double and a Jeff McNeil walk loaded the bases.

Sterling Marte laced a ball at 111 mph that struck the back of Bradley’s right foot to score one run. A grounder to short by Tyrone Taylor that the Rays couldn’t turn a double play on made it 2-1.

The Mets expanded their lead to 5-1 in the fifth and ended Bradley’s night. He started the inning by walking Francisco Alvarez on four pitches and Francisco Lindor on 10. Another error on a slow infield roller, this one by Aranda at first, loaded the bases.

Bradley continued having trouble finding the strike zone, walking Soto on four pitches.

Reliever Eric Orze, a former Met who spent time pre-game visiting with some ex-mates, came on and got out Alonso and McNeil. He was a strike away from a great escape, but Marte ripped a single to left that scored two.

But the Rays came back with a big inning off Mets relievers Paul Blackburn and Max Kranick, scoring six to go ahead 7-5.

The rally started quietly with singles by Brandon Lowe, Yandy Diaz and Aranda to load the bases. With one out, Jake Mangum, who started his pro career with the Mets, lined a single to center that scored two. A grounder to short by Jose Caballero got another run home and Kameron Misner singled to make it 5-5. Jansen followed with a two-run homer, his sixth.