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New York Mets 4 – 1 Philadelphia Phillies

MLB · July 16, 2026 · Final
🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The New York Mets took down the Philadelphia Phillies tonight, four to one, and it was Francisco Alvarez who set the tone early and never let go. Third inning, Alvarez put one out to center, four hundred and sixteen feet, and just like that the Mets had the lead and the energy. The Phillies never really answered.

Then came the seventh, and that's where this game was decided. Brett Baty went deep to right center, three hundred and seventy-eight feet, and before Philadelphia could even exhale, Alvarez stepped back up and did it again — this time to left, three sixty-three — and suddenly it was three nothing and the Phillies were staring at a mountain. Trea Turner gave the home crowd something to cheer about in the eighth with a solo shot to left, but that was as close as Philadelphia would get.

New York put the finishing touch on it in the ninth when A.J. Ewing doubled to left, scoring Young, and that was that. Alvarez was the story tonight — two home runs, the first in the third, the second in the seventh, bookending the decisive stretch of the ballgame. Juan Soto reached base four times without an out, working three walks and a hit, and the Mets offense simply wore this Phillies staff down.

New York controlled this game wire to wire, and Alvarez made sure there was never a moment of doubt. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

Who Scored — Scoring Timeline

  1. Alvarez homered to center (416 feet). P3 · 1–0
  2. Baty homered to right center (378 feet). P7 · 2–0
  3. Alvarez homered to left (363 feet). P7 · 3–0
  4. Turner homered to left (383 feet). P8 · 3–1
  5. Ewing doubled to left, Young scored. P9 · 4–1

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1
Aaron Nola pitches to A.J. Ewing P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Ewing struck out swinging. P1
P1
Aaron Nola pitches to Juan Soto P1
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P1
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P1
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P1
Soto singled to center. P1
P1
Aaron Nola pitches to Bo Bichette P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1
Bichette grounded into double play, first to shortstop to first, Soto out at second. P1
P1
Middle of the 1st inning P1
Bottom of the 1st inning P1
Christian Scott pitches to Trea Turner P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1
Turner lined out to center. P1
P1
Christian Scott pitches to Kyle Schwarber P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P1
Schwarber flied out to center. P1
P1
Christian Scott pitches to Bryce Harper P1
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P1
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P1
Harper struck out swinging. P1
P1
End of the 1st inning P1
Top of the 2nd inning P2
Aaron Nola pitches to Francisco Lindor P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
Lindor flied out to right. P2
P2
Aaron Nola pitches to Carson Benge P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P2
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2
Benge singled to left. P2
P2
Aaron Nola pitches to Jorge Polanco P2
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2
Polanco popped out to shortstop. P2
P2
Aaron Nola pitches to Jared Young P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Benge stole second. P2
Benge stole second. P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Young struck out swinging. P2
P2
Middle of the 2nd inning P2
Bottom of the 2nd inning P2
Christian Scott pitches to Brandon Marsh P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2
Marsh grounded out to first. P2
P2
Christian Scott pitches to Alec Bohm P2
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P2
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2
Bohm grounded out to third. P2
P2
Christian Scott pitches to Bryson Stott P2
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P2
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P2
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P2
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P2
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P2
Stott struck out swinging. P2
P2
End of the 2nd inning P2
Top of the 3rd inning P3
Aaron Nola pitches to Brett Baty P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3
Baty flied out to center. P3
P3
Aaron Nola pitches to Francisco Alvarez P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3
Alvarez homered to center (416 feet). P3
P3
Aaron Nola pitches to A.J. Ewing P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Ewing struck out swinging. P3
P3
Aaron Nola pitches to Juan Soto P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P3
Soto walked. P3
P3
Aaron Nola pitches to Bo Bichette P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Bichette struck out swinging. P3
P3
Middle of the 3rd inning P3
Bottom of the 3rd inning P3
Christian Scott pitches to J.T. Realmuto P3
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3
Realmuto singled to center. P3
P3
Christian Scott pitches to Gabriel Rincones Jr. P3
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Rincones Jr. struck out swinging. P3
P3
Christian Scott pitches to Justin Crawford P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3
Crawford fouled out to pitcher. P3
P3
Christian Scott pitches to Trea Turner P3
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P3
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3
Turner struck out swinging. P3
P3
End of the 3rd inning P3
Top of the 4th inning P4
Aaron Nola pitches to Francisco Lindor P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
Lindor grounded out to second. P4
P4
Aaron Nola pitches to Carson Benge P4
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P4
Benge grounded out to second. P4
P4
Aaron Nola pitches to Jorge Polanco P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4
Polanco grounded out to shortstop. P4
P4
Middle of the 4th inning P4
Bottom of the 4th inning P4
Christian Scott pitches to Kyle Schwarber P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P4
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Swinging P4
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P4
Schwarber struck out swinging. P4
P4
Christian Scott pitches to Bryce Harper P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P4
Harper doubled to right. P4
P4
Christian Scott pitches to Brandon Marsh P4
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4
Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P4
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4
Marsh flied out to left. P4
P4
Christian Scott pitches to Alec Bohm P4
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4
Bohm fouled out to first. P4
P4
End of the 4th inning P4
Top of the 5th inning P5
Aaron Nola pitches to Jared Young P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P5
Young walked. P5
P5
Aaron Nola pitches to Brett Baty P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5
Baty singled to center, Young to second. P5
P5
Aaron Nola pitches to Francisco Alvarez P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P5
Alvarez walked, Baty to second, Young to third. P5
P5
Aaron Nola pitches to A.J. Ewing P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Ewing lined into double play, to first, Alvarez doubled off first. P5
P5
Aaron Nola pitches to Juan Soto P5
Pitch 1 : Automatic Ball - IBB 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Automatic Ball - IBB 2 P5
Pitch 3 : Automatic Ball - IBB 3 P5
Pitch 4 : Automatic Ball - IBB 4 P5
Soto intentionally walked. P5
P5
Aaron Nola pitches to Bo Bichette P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P5
Bichette flied out to right. P5
P5
Middle of the 5th inning P5
Bottom of the 5th inning P5
Christian Scott pitches to Bryson Stott P5
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P5
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 7 : Strike 3 Swinging P5
Stott struck out swinging. P5
P5
Christian Scott pitches to J.T. Realmuto P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P5
Realmuto grounded out to second. P5
P5
Christian Scott pitches to Gabriel Rincones Jr. P5
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P5
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P5
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P5
Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P5
Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Looking P5
Rincones Jr. struck out looking. Philadelphia Phillies challenged: call on the field was upheld. P5
P5
End of the 5th inning P5
Top of the 6th inning P6
Aaron Nola pitches to Francisco Lindor P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Lindor grounded out to second. P6
P6
Aaron Nola pitches to Carson Benge P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6
Benge safe at first on fielding error by shortstop Turner, Benge safe at second on error. P6
P6
Aaron Nola pitches to Jorge Polanco P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P6
Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Polanco struck out swinging. P6
P6
Aaron Nola pitches to Jared Young P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Young struck out swinging. P6
P6
Middle of the 6th inning P6
Bottom of the 6th inning P6
Christian Scott pitches to Justin Crawford P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6
Crawford grounded out to shortstop. P6
P6
Christian Scott pitches to Trea Turner P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Swinging P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P6
Turner lined out to second. P6
P6
Christian Scott pitches to Kyle Schwarber P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6
Schwarber doubled to right. Umpire review: call on the field was upheld. P6
P6
Raley relieved Scott P6
Brooks Raley pitches to Bryce Harper P6
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P6
Schwarber to third on pickoff caught stealing error by shortstop Lindor. P6
Schwarber to third on pickoff caught stealing error by shortstop Lindor. P6
Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P6
Pitch 4 : Ball 4 P6
Harper walked. P6
P6
Brooks Raley pitches to Brandon Marsh P6
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P6
Marsh struck out swinging. P6
P6
End of the 6th inning P6
Top of the 7th inning P7
Aaron Nola pitches to Brett Baty P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Baty homered to right center (378 feet). P7
P7
Aaron Nola pitches to Francisco Alvarez P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Alvarez homered to left (363 feet). P7
P7
Bowlan relieved Nola P7
Jonathan Bowlan pitches to A.J. Ewing P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7
Ewing grounded out to first. P7
P7
Jonathan Bowlan pitches to Juan Soto P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 8 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 9 : Ball 4 P7
Soto walked. P7
P7
Jonathan Bowlan pitches to Bo Bichette P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P7
Bichette grounded into double play, shortstop to first, Soto out at second. P7
P7
Middle of the 7th inning P7
Bottom of the 7th inning P7
Brazobán relieved Raley P7
Huascar Brazoban pitches to Alec Bohm P7
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P7
Bohm grounded out to third. P7
P7
Huascar Brazoban pitches to Bryson Stott P7
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P7
Stott flied out to center. P7
P7
Huascar Brazoban pitches to J.T. Realmuto P7
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P7
Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P7
Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P7
Realmuto grounded out to shortstop. P7
P7
End of the 7th inning P7
Top of the 8th inning P8
Johnson relieved Bowlan P8
Seth Johnson pitches to Francisco Lindor P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Lindor flied out to shortstop. P8
P8
Seth Johnson pitches to Carson Benge P8
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8
Benge grounded out to second. P8
P8
Seth Johnson pitches to Jorge Polanco P8
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Polanco lined out to left. P8
P8
Middle of the 8th inning P8
Bottom of the 8th inning P8
Taylor in left field. P8
Weaver relieved Brazobán P8
Luke Weaver pitches to Gabriel Rincones Jr. P8
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8
Rincones Jr. flied out to center. P8
P8
Luke Weaver pitches to Justin Crawford P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Crawford popped out to third. P8
P8
Luke Weaver pitches to Trea Turner P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P8
Turner homered to left (383 feet). P8
P8
Luke Weaver pitches to Kyle Schwarber P8
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8
Schwarber grounded out to second. P8
P8
End of the 8th inning P8
Top of the 9th inning P9
Seth Johnson pitches to Jared Young P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P9
Young walked. P9
P9
Seth Johnson pitches to Brett Baty P9
Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P9
Baty flied out to left. P9
P9
Seth Johnson pitches to Francisco Alvarez P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Alvarez struck out swinging. P9
P9
Seth Johnson pitches to A.J. Ewing P9
Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P9
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9
Ewing doubled to left, Young scored. P9
P9
Seth Johnson pitches to Tyrone Taylor P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Taylor struck out swinging. P9
P9
Middle of the 9th inning P9
Bottom of the 9th inning P9
Williams relieved Weaver P9
Devin Williams pitches to Bryce Harper P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P9
Harper grounded out to second. P9
P9
Devin Williams pitches to Brandon Marsh P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9
Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9
Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P9
Marsh lined out to left. P9
P9
Devin Williams pitches to Alec Bohm P9
Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9
Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9
Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9
Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9
Bohm struck out swinging. P9
P9
End of the 9th inning P9