Bo Bichette Sparks Mets Vs Padres After 7-1 Seattle Win
The Mets vs Padres series opened in San Diego on June 5 with New York carrying a 27-35 record and the kind of momentum it badly needed after a rough week in Seattle. The Mets closed their West Coast trip with a 7-1 win Wednesday, snapping a skid at T-Mobile Park before meeting a Padres team that entered at 32-29.
Bo Bichette’s Seattle reset
Bo Bichette supplied the sharpest signal in that rebound. He went 4-for-4 in the finale, his first four-hit game as a member of the Mets, and finished with one run scored and three runs batted in after an 0-for-16 stretch.
New York needed the jolt. The club had lost 3-2 in ten innings on Monday and then fell 8-3 on Tuesday before breaking through Wednesday, and it did so with production up and down the order rather than from one isolated inning.
Seven of the Mets’ nine starters got at least one hit in the 7-1 win. AJ Ewing had three hits, while Jared Young and Luis Torrens each added two, giving the lineup a much cleaner shape than it showed in the first two games of the series.
Petco Park pressure
The stop in San Diego also brought a familiar problem. The Padres took four of six games from the Mets last year, including all three at Petco Park, and since 2015 New York has lost 20 of 34 games there.
That run fits a broader split that has been nearly even overall. Since 2015, the Mets have played San Diego to a 16-16 record, but the recent edge at Petco Park has gone the Padres’ way.
The clubs were meeting for the first time in 2026, and this set was the Mets’ final three-game trip on the West Coast unless they reach the postseason. That leaves little room for another slow start if they want to carry Wednesday’s response into the series.
Semien’s split profile
Marcus Semien remains the other bat to watch in the middle of the order. He homered again in the Seattle opener and has hit.286/.348/.619 with two home runs since the start of the weekend series against the Marlins.
His split line tells the rest of the story. With runners in scoring position, he was at.340/.379/.420 with a 127 wRC+ in 50 at-bats this season, but with nobody on base he was hitting.181/.235/.268 with a 45 wRC+.
New York finally got the kind of contact that had been missing earlier in the road trip. The question now is whether that Wednesday rhythm holds in San Diego, where the Mets have spent the last decade chasing a better answer.
