New York – Juan Soto hit his first two homers in Citi Field as a member of the METS on Thursday afternoon, but the Arizona Diamondbacks won a 4-2 victory to give New York a rare loss of the series at home.
The Diamondbacks won the last two games in the three-game series: the first time the METS have lost consecutive competitions in Citi Field since July 27-28, when they fell to the Atlanta Braves.
New York, which is 13-3 in Citi Field this season, had its franchise record of 10 consecutive victories at home.
Zac Gallen (2-4) allowed only two hits in six inputs. It did not allow a corridor beyond the first base to the opposite explosion of 391 feet of Soto with one in the sixth.
Soto then hit a 399 feet shot for almost the same left center area of Kevin Ginkel in the eighth.
Soto entered Thursday’s batte .241 with four doubles, 10 walks and eight strikeouts in his first 15 games at home since he signed a 15 -year contract worth $ 765 million last December. He had 12 homers in 35 games in Citi Field as a visiting player.
Ginkel retired from a second and third late in the eighth before Shelby Miller recorded his first rescue with a ninth 1-2-3.
Geraldo Perdomo and Tim Tawa played for the Diamondbacks, who also received promoted races from Alek Thomas and Eugenio Suárez.
Mets Kodai Songa (3-2) mets gave a race in four innings.
Ginkel struck Mark winds and Brandon Nimmo to place two and preserve a 3-2 advantage in the eighth.
The METS had not lost a series at home from August 13 to 15, when Oakland’s then athletics took two of three.
RHP Merrill Kelly (3-1, 4.41 Effectiveness) begins for Diamondbacks against Philadelphia Philis on Friday, when Mets RHP Clay Holmes (3-1, 2.64) carries the mound against the San Luis cardinals.
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