{"id":34522,"date":"2026-06-20T12:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/mets-6-4-phillies-jun-18-2026-game-recap\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:48:58","slug":"mets-6-4-phillies-jun-18-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/mets-6-4-phillies-jun-18-2026-game-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets 6-4 Phillies (Jun 18, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36969\/juan-soto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juan Soto<\/a> hit two solo homers and made a sliding catch in the left-field corner to rob <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30951\/bryce-harper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bryce Harper<\/a> of a run-scoring hit as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Mets<\/a> defeated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> 6-4 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Pinch-hitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4987650\/eric-wagaman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Wagaman<\/a> provided the tiebreaking single with two outs in the seventh inning, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32146\/marcus-semien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcus Semien<\/a> followed with a two-run triple off reliever Jos\u00e9 Alvarado (3-2). <\/p>\n<p>              Soto took Phillies starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33709\/aaron-nola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Nola<\/a> deep in his first two at-bats to give him 16 homers this season. It was the 30th multihomer game of his career. Soto also took away an extra-base hit from Harper when he lunged and slid to catch a ball on the warning track in the third.<\/p>\n<p>              Huascar Brazob\u00e1n (4-1) earned the win in relief of starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33244\/sean-manaea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Manaea<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33224\/devin-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devin Williams<\/a> worked the ninth for his 11th save.<\/p>\n<p>              Following a one-out walk and some shaky Mets defense, Williams allowed an RBI single to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5080642\/justin-crawford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Crawford<\/a> before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33712\/kyle-schwarber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Schwarber<\/a> lined out to right field with two runners on to end it.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/38904\/bo-bichette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bo Bichette<\/a> made his first appearance in Philadelphia since spurning the Phillies to sign with the Mets last offseason. He was booed lustily each time he stepped to the plate and finished 0 for 5 after six straight multihit games.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41169\/alec-bohm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alec Bohm<\/a> had a single, a double and two RBI for the Phillies, who dropped consecutive games for the first time since losing three straight in mid-May.<\/p>\n<p>              Philadelphia shortstop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33710\/trea-turner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trea Turner<\/a> left after the second inning with a bruised right calf. He was hit by a 79 mph sweeper from Manaea. <\/p>\n<p>              It was the second time this week Turner exited a game after being hit by a pitch. He was pulled from Monday\u2019s game against Miami after getting drilled on the right wrist and missed the next game.<\/p>\n<p>              <hl2>Up next<\/hl2>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              After a rare Friday off as Philadelphia hosts a World Cup match, the teams resume their three-game series Saturday night. RHP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39825\/freddy-peralta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freddy Peralta<\/a> (5-5, 3.90 ERA) starts for New York against LHP Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (8-3, 1.82).<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; \u2014 Juan Soto hit two solo homers and made a sliding catch in the left-field corner to rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/s.espncdn.com\/stitcher\/sports\/baseball\/mlb\/events\/401815804.png?templateId=espn.com.share.1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}