Vientos Walks It Off in 10, Mets Steal One From Arizona 3-1

Mark Vientos ended it the right way. With the Mets and Diamondbacks locked in a 1-1 stalemate through nine innings of suffocating pitching, Vientos stepped up in the tenth and drove in two runs — including his go-ahead homer — to lift New York to a 3-1 win at Chase Field. It was the kind of game where the box score flatters both offenses, and the pitching staffs spent the night making sure of it.

The first nine innings belonged almost entirely to the starters. Nolan McLean gave the Mets exactly what they needed in his first significant road start of the season — six innings, three hits, one earned run, six strikeouts. He was sharp enough to keep Arizona off the board until Nolan Arenado connected for a solo shot that briefly made the Diamondbacks look like the team that would cash the moneyline. But Ryne Nelson matched him nearly pitch for pitch, working 6.2 innings and allowing just two hits and one earned run while punching out seven. Both starters held up their end; the bullpens inherited a coin flip.

The game turned in the tenth when Vientos got to Kevin Ginkel. His two-run blast off the Arizona reliever — his second hit of the night after going 2-for-4 — broke the deadlock for good. Carson Benge added an insurance RBI to make it 3-1, and Tobias Myers closed it out cleanly to earn the save, with Devin Williams picking up the win in relief. Arizona's Ryan Waldschmidt had a quiet cameo off the bench, going 1-for-1, but the Diamondbacks never found an answer once Ginkel imploded.

For the markets, this one was a nightmare on run totals. Four runs across ten innings — including an extra frame where the ghost runner never scored for Arizona — crushed any over position on a total that was likely set in the 7.5-to-8.5 range. The under not only hit; it hit convincingly. McLean and Nelson made sure the game never sniffed respectability for run-line backers either. Vientos' homer was the lone prop standout in an otherwise quiet offensive night — anyone who had him for a multi-hit game or RBI prop cashed while the power numbers around him stayed buried.