Clay Holmes' seven-inning statement, Mets' notable offensive breakouts highlight Saturday's 9-0 rout of Giants

The Mets won consecutive games for the first time since the team's season-opening victories March 26 and 28 at the Pittsburgh Pirates, taking a 2-1 lead in this weekend's four-game series at the San Francisco Giants with Saturday's 9-0 rout. Takeaways Clay Holmes went a career-high-tying seven innings, matching the length of his June 1, 2025, start at the Colorado Rockies but delivering a better performance. He was solid in his first start of the 2026 campaign, last Monday's 4-2 win at the St.

Louis Cardinals, and built on his season-opening start with arguably his best outing as a Met. He picked up where Nolan McLean left off from Friday's 10-3 win , allowing three hits while striking out four and walking two in seven scoreless innings. Holmes was not perfect, putting the leadoff runners on in the second and third innings before issuing a two-out walk to avoid a 1-2-3 fourth, but he kept the Giants (3-6) stranded across those frames while the Mets (5-4) held a 3-0 lead before entering his zone and getting stronger as the game progressed.

Holmes (2-0, 1. 42 ERA) threw 61 strikes on 90 pitches before Tobias Myers took the ball for the bullpen in the eighth and ninth innings. Bo Bichette is improving.

After owning his "terrible" at-bats from the Mets' opening weekend last Sunday, he has looked more like himself with five hits in the past two games. Bichette followed Friday's 3-for-5 breakthrough with Saturday's 2-for-5 encore, driving in a run for the third straight game with a fifth-inning single to shallow center field that padded the Mets' 4-0 lead and sparked a five-run frame. After a 2-for-22 stretch across five appearance in March, April has been a breath of fresh air for Bichette, who is 7 for 19 with three RBI through four games.