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- 0:05Juan Soto Homer leads Mets to 6'3 win that keeps Phillies from
- 0:08taking over top NL wild-card spot. Written by Jerry Beech This
- 0:14article is being read by an automated voice, generated by Everlet. New
- 0:20York, the AP. Juan Soto hit a three-run homer, and the New
- 0:24York Mets kept the Philadelphia Phillies from gaining ground in the National
- 0:27League wildcard race with a 6-3 victory Friday night. Edmundo Sosa went
- 0:33three for three with a home run and a double for the
- 0:35Phillies, who are tied with the Cubs and Padres at eighty five
- 0:38sixty nine for the three NL Wild cards. Five games ahead of
- 0:41Arizona. Derrick Hill also went deep and Bryson Stott had an RBI
- 0:45double. Soto also doubled and finished with three hits. AJ Ewing's two
- 0:50runs single capped a three-run first innings. For the last place Mets,
- 0:53who ended a five-game losing streak, their longest under interim manager Andy
- 0:58Green. Carson Benge had an RBI single in the first and reached
- 1:01base three times. Francisco Lindor remained at two hundred and ninety nine
- 1:06career homers after going two for five with a double. Rookie left
- 1:10hander Zack Thornton, five five allowed two runs and five hits in
- 1:14six innings. He struck out four and walked one. Thornton has permitted
- 1:18two runs or fewer eight times in fourteen big league starts. Deniel
- 1:23Nunez got four outs for a second career save, and first since
- 1:26july thirteenth, twenty twenty four. Jose Urkady tossed four and two thirds
- 1:31innings of scoreless bulk relief in his Phillies debut. Urkady, designated for
- 1:35assignment by the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, was claimed off waivers
- 1:39Thursday. Phillies opener Tim Mesa, three four, was charged with three runs.
- 1:45He threw thirty-three pitches but recorded just one out, the shortest outing
- 1:49by a Philadelphia starter since Christopher Sanchez got only one out against
- 1:53the Washington Nationals on july twenty ninth, twenty twenty one. Up next.
- 1:59The Mets will retire the number fifteen jersey worn by Hall of
- 2:02Fame center fielder Carlos Beltran on Saturday before RHP Christian Scott, four
- 2:07five three point seven six IRA A opposes Phillies RHP Andrew Painter,
- 2:11three nine five point five four. See the AP's full MLB coverage
- 2:15here.