Bo Bichette chased his early Mets moment and was unsuccessful during a difficult opening weekend. He improved through April and delivered in Thursday’s 10-8 win over the Minnesota Twins.
Leading off while New York (9-16) was without the injured Francisco Lindor, Bichette’s 3-for-5 evening at Citi Field featured a three-run double with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth inning.
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“It’s a good moment,” Bichette said. “Great thing about baseball is you’ve got to show up and do it again tomorrow. So, looking forward to that.”
The Mets ended up needing every last one of the three runs that Bichette drove in, surviving Minnesota (12-13) after the Twins scored a run in the ninth inning and brought the tying run to the plate.
“Huge,” said Carlos Mendoza. “I think he’s been looking for that moment, especially here at home — or any ballpark, but I think meaningful to do it here in front of our fan base. I think I’m going to go back to that first opening weekend when he wanted it so bad. And then for him, after we lost the lead in the eighth, the way we did it, and just punch right back — it was just good to see it.”
Bichette overcame two strikeouts while adding a single in the first and fourth innings.
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“I think the desire to help a new team and the desire to just perform at the level you know can perform at,” said Bichette, who is slashing .277/.310/.373 with one home run and nine RBI through 83 at-bats in April. “So, I don’t know if any of that was weighing on me. But I definitely still need to get better, but make adjustments and get to the player that I need to be at.”
Bichette and the Mets, on the heels of this month’s 12-game skid, seek their third straight win Friday when they start a three-game series with the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field.
“Winning games in the big leagues is really hard,” Bichette said. “I think good teams fight, no matter the ebbs and flows of the game, and it was really exciting to see tonight from us.”
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