{"id":327851,"date":"2026-08-23T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327851\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:30:50","slug":"carson-benge-continues-red-hot-streak-in-offensive-powered-mets-win-over-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327851\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Benge continues red-hot streak in offensive-powered Mets win over White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO \u2014 Carson Benge forged quite a relationship with the right-field fence on Saturday.<\/p>\n

One moment, the Mets rookie was face-planting into that fence, attempting to catch a ball hit by Tristan Peters that caromed off his glove for a home run. <\/p>\n

Before long, Benge would clear that same fence, with a shot mightier than the one he failed to catch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like playing the game. I don\u2019t want to be taken out unless it\u2019s anything too serious,\u201d Benge said after his three-hit night \u2014 four if you include his face\u2019s collision with the chain-links \u2014 led the Mets\u2019 10-5 victory over the White Sox.<\/p>\n

The win was the Mets\u2019 12th in 17 games since the trade deadline and added another molecule of oxygen to the team\u2019s microscopic hope<\/a> of a late-season magic trick to reach the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Benge\u2019s big week<\/a> has included contributions from his right arm (he nailed two runners at the plate in the same inning on Monday) and a bat that won\u2019t quit. He began the day with a .905 OPS in August that included a .308 batting average for the month.<\/p>\n

And his homer after hitting the fence two innings earlier was just his latest Mets moment.<\/p>\n

Carson Benge gestures after reaching second base after hitting an RBI single during the first inning of the Mets\u2019 10-5 win over the White Sox on Aug. 22, 2026 in Chicago. AP Photo\/Jessie Alcheh<\/p>\n

\u201cCarson said he was even for the day,\u201d interim manager Andy Green said. \u201cHe tipped one over the fence and hit one over the fence. He\u2019s a special guy. It\u2019s a lot of fun watching him play baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mets hit five homers on this night, including two by Luis Robert Jr., who is playing in his first series against his former team.<\/p>\n

Benge\u2019s two-out RBI single against Luis Castillo in the first inning gave the Mets a fast run after A.J. Ewing singled on the game\u2019s first pitch and stole second.<\/p>\n

Bo Bichette\u2019s second homer in as many games extended the Mets\u2019 lead to 2-1 in the third inning. Bichette cleared the left-field fence for his 14th homer this season and continued his torrid month \u2014 he entered play with a .947 OPS in August.<\/p>\n

Robert delivered a two-run homer later in the inning, following Benge\u2019s second single of the game. It was a homecoming moment for Robert<\/a> \u2014 who heard boos as he circled the bases. Robert spent the first seven seasons of his major league career with the White Sox before he was traded to the Mets in January.<\/p>\n

Castillo didn\u2019t survive the inning. The right-hander, acquired from the Mariners at the trade deadline, allowed eight hits and four earned runs over 2 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings with one walk and three strikeouts. <\/p>\n

Carson Benge rips an RBI single during the first inning of the Mets\u2019 win over the White Sox. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

The start was his third in four since the trade in which he failed to complete at least five innings.<\/p>\n

Braden Montgomery\u2019s homer in the second inning accounted for the first run of the night against Christian Scott. In the fourth, Benge face-planted the fence pursuing Peters\u2019 shot to right that caromed off his glove for a home run. Benge was briefly shaken up and received a visit from the trainer, but he remained in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw it hit, and I didn\u2019t get the best read on it,\u201d Benge said. \u201cWent back on it, fast toward the wall, kind of caught it in my glove and it popped out as I hit that fence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benge\u2019s homer leading off the fifth was the start of a three-run inning. Before it concluded, Eric Wagaman and Marcus Semien each stroked an RBI single that increased the Mets\u2019 lead to 7-3.<\/p>\n

Scott slogged through 4 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings and allowed four earned runs on five hits and four walks with six strikeouts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just didn\u2019t have it today, especially with the offspeed stuff, I didn\u2019t really locate in the zone very well,\u201d Scott said. \u201cI thought the bullpen did a really good job coming in there, cleaning it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luis Robert Jr. round the bases after hitting a two-run home run during the third inning of the Mets\u2019 win over the White Sox. He had two homers in the game. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jonathan Pintaro got a huge out in the bottom of the frame, replacing Scott with the bases loaded and striking out Colson Montgomery to end the frame. The White Sox pulled to within 7-4 in the inning on Braden Montgomery\u2019s walk with the bases loaded.<\/p>\n

Austin Warren escaped trouble in the sixth after the White Sox had pulled to within 7-5 against Pintaro.<\/p>\n

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But Robert created breathing room with his second blast of the game, a solo shot in the seventh. Luis Torrens\u2019 pinch-hit, two-run blast in the eighth was the Mets\u2019 fifth homer of the game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Carson Benge forged quite a relationship with the right-field fence on Saturday. One moment, the Mets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20046,6595,25677,48578,20,9,11,320,10,319],"class_list":["post-327851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bo-bichette","tag-carson-benge","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}