Cesar Perdomo handed the San Francisco Giants six scoreless innings in his first major-league start. The bullpen handed them back in one eighth-inning sequence.
The 24-year-old left-hander limited New York to three singles, walked one, and struck out four on 83 pitches before departing with a 2-0 lead. Joel Kuhnel worked a scoreless seventh. Then Carson Seymour faced the heart of a Mets rally: Brett Baty's pinch-hit solo homer, an intentional walk to Juan Soto, and Bo Bichette's three-run drive.
The Mets won 4-2 and took the series two games to one.
ESPN's box matches that pitching line and lists Perdomo's ERA at 0.90 after the outing. The Associated Press called it an impressive first big-league start and detailed how he struck out Bichette and Carson Benge after Soto's first-inning single, then finished by retiring Soto on a double-play grounder after walking Francisco Lindor. ESPN's pitching details credited him with a game score of 69.
How the lead was built - and lost
Jung Hoo Lee's two-run single in the fourth scored Bryce Eldridge and Jonah Cox for the only Giants runs. Christian Scott lasted 4 2/3 innings for New York and allowed those two runs on four hits with seven strikeouts and no walks.
Nate Lavender escaped a fifth-inning jam by retiring Rafael Devers, and Jonathan Pintaro bridged two scoreless frames before Tobias Myers (1-2) earned the win. Kodai Senga closed a perfect ninth for his sixth save in six chances.
Seymour (0-2) was charged with the loss and a blown save after one inning with three hits, four runs, one walk, and two home runs.
The Associated Press noted the Giants intentionally walked Soto after Seymour threw two pitches out of the zone following Lee's sliding catch on Lindor's liner; Bichette then hit an 0-1 slider out for his 16th homer, a 412-foot drive to left-center per ESPN's play log. A.J. Ewing had singled and been sacrificed to second before that sequence unfolded.