Mets Score Nine Runs to Defeat Reds and Avoid Sweep

The Mets totaled 15 hits and scored nine runs in a 9-1 victory over the Reds at Great American Ball Park. The rookie right-hander threw seven innings, allowed one unearned run on three hits and one walk, and recorded nine strikeouts while throwing 101 pitches.

Bichette went 3-for-4 and reached base four times.

Juan Soto and Francisco Alvarez each recorded three hits. The Mets sent eight batters to the plate in the third inning, scoring three runs on four hits and a walk. Soto, Marcus Semien and Mark Vientos delivered consecutive RBI singles.

Bichette started a fifth-inning rally with a single.

Soto and Semien followed with singles to load the bases, and Vientos added a sacrifice fly. Alvarez drove in a run with a single, and A.J. Ewing hit a two-run double. Bichette added an RBI single in the eighth, and Soto doubled to extend the lead to 9-1. The Mets avoided a three-game sweep after losing the first two games of the series.