{"id":40770,"date":"2025-07-05T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40770\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T12:40:11","slug":"mets-brett-baty-has-chance-to-solidify-place-in-lineup-after-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40770\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets’ Brett Baty has chance to solidify place in lineup after homer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets\u2019 new-look top of the order has settled in and is showing potential few teams can match. The bottom of the order, though, has been a problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Mets\u2019 various young options who have been given chances at third base have not yet run with the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So if Brett Baty can keep hitting like this, maybe two Mets issues could be solved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Batting out of the 7-hole, the young infielder did his part in drilling a home run in the Mets\u2019 6-5, Subway Series-opening comeback victory over the Yankees<\/a> at Citi Field on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Baty\u2019s RBI from that home run was the only one collected by the Mets\u2019 Nos. 6-9 hitters. <\/p>\n

\"BrettBrett Baty hits a home run during the Mets-Yankees game on July 4, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n

Brandon Nimmo has looked natural at the top of the lineup; Francisco Lindor has shown signs of breaking out of his slump; Juan Soto is on a tear<\/a>; Pete Alonso is powerful; and Jeff McNeil, the hero of the day, can hold down the fifth spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Baty entered his fourth-inning at-bat in an 0-for-14 skid. <\/p>\n

But he first smacked a single through the left side and, two innings later, stepped up against righty Ian Hamilton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the sixth, Baty saw a first-pitch slider well and laid off a pitch that slid out of the strike zone. <\/p>\n

The next slider crossed the middle of the plate and Baty \u201cjust let it rip,\u201d he said, in lasering his ninth homer of the season and first since June 14 over the right field wall to bring the Mets to within one run.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Baty was happy to help his team but did not feel as if he were representing the bottom of the order.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"BrettBrett Baty celebrates during the Mets-Yankees game on July 4, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re all just one unit,\u201d Baty said. \u201cI think, honestly, every single one of us at any point can do damage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old can do damage, as he demonstrated during his huge May, but his results (and the club\u2019s results) were not there in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ronny Mauricio has not hit much and is piling up strikeouts. Mark Vientos has gone 2-for-19 since returning from the injured list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Mets would love for someone to step up, and perhaps Baty \u2014 who is the best third baseman in the mix \u2014 is creeping his foot forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For his part, Baty has felt his at-bats \u2014 even while he couldn\u2019t find a hit \u2014 have been strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially this past week and in the Milwaukee series, I feel like I hit three or four balls over 100 [mph], and just none of them fell,\u201d said Baty, whose OPS sits at .685. \u201cSo I think it\u2019s just staying within myself and just keep doing the same thing, try to hit the ball hard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 new-look top of the order has settled in and is showing potential few teams can match.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[31974,1266,1305,62,30700,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-40770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brett-baty","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-mets","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-subway-series","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114800677608796075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}