Colt Keith Thrown Out at Home as Mets Beat Tigers 10-2 — Tigers - Mets
tigers - mets turned on a fifth-inning collision at Citi Field on May 12, 2026, when Colt Keith ran into third-base umpire Rob Drake and was thrown out at home plate. The play ended a Tigers rally in a game the Mets later won 10-2.
Colt Keith and Rob Drake
Riley Greene singled into right field in the top of the fifth, moving Keith to third. He beat the throw that got away from third base, then broke for home and collided with Drake on the way.
Drake fell to the infield grass as Keith tried to score. Freddy Peralta then threw him out at the plate to close the inning, cutting off a chance for Detroit to add to a 3-2 lead.
Francisco Alvarez and the Mets
The out loomed larger because New York did not stay behind for long. The Mets scored three runs in the sixth inning and three more in the eighth, turning the game into a 10-2 finish.
That result fit a team that had entered the day at 16-25 despite a league-high $334.8 million payroll. It also came after the Mets had lost a league-worst 12 straight earlier in the season, then won six of their last 10.
Citi Field momentum
Keith’s collision with Drake did not erase the rest of the Tigers’ inning on its own, but it ended the rally at the plate and left Detroit with just two runs. For New York, the sequence became part of a sharper stretch that has started to pull the club back from its early hole.
The game also moved the Mets one step further from the version of themselves that had spent much of the spring buried near the bottom of the standings. A strange umpire collision, a run erased at home, and then six runs from New York across the sixth and eighth innings told the whole story.
