{"id":743522,"date":"2026-06-17T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:16:12","slug":"bo-bichette-has-three-hits-nolan-mclean-strikes-out-nine-as-new-york-mets-beat-cincinnati-reds-to-avoid-series-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743522\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo Bichette has three hits, Nolan McLean strikes out nine as New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds to avoid series sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"

CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Bo Bichette<\/a> continued his hot streak with three hits, rookie Nolan McLean<\/a> struck out nine in seven innings and the New York Mets<\/a> averted being swept with a 9-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Francisco Alvarez<\/a> and Juan Soto<\/a> also had three hits apiece. New York had 15 hits, which is tied for its second-highest output of the season.<\/p>\n

Bichette has multiple hits in six straight games and went 8 for 14 in the three-game series. The third baseman is also batting .539 (14 for 26) over his last six games with two homers and eight RBIs.<\/p>\n

McLean (4-4) allowed one unearned run and three hits as he went seven innings for the third time in 15 starts.<\/p>\n

It was Carlos Mendoza\u2019s 205th victory as Mets\u2019 manager. The third-year skipper passed Jerry Manuel and moved into ninth place on the franchise\u2019s wins list.<\/p>\n

JJ Bleday<\/a> drove in Cincinnati\u2019s only run on a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the third inning to score Jose Trevino<\/a>. The Reds went 3-3 on their six-game homestand.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati went 4-2 against the Mets for the second straight season.<\/p>\n

The Mets jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the fourth inning on two-out RBI base hits by Soto, Marcus Semien<\/a> and Mark Vientos<\/a> off Cincinnati starter Nick Lodolo<\/a> (2-2). They broke it open with four in the fifth, including a two-run double by A.J. Ewing<\/a> to make it 7-1.<\/p>\n

Lodolo allowed seven runs and 11 hits in 4 2\/3 innings. It is the fourth time in 83 big-league starts he has given up at least seven earned runs.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Mets: LHP Sean Manaea<\/a> (1-2, 4.78 ERA) goes on Thursday at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Reds: RHP Rhett Lowder<\/a> (3-3, 4.60 ERA) takes the mound in New York on Friday against the Yankees.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Joe Reedy, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Bo Bichette continued his hot streak with three hits, rookie Nolan McLean struck out nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-743522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}