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The scene is set at Citi Field.

The Mets will face the Blue Jays in their 2025 MLB home opener after a 3-3 start on the road. Juan Soto will make his much anticipated home debut as New York looks to get things rolling after a mediocre start.

Tylor Megill is expected to get the nod against Kevin Gausman. With injuries to starters Frankie Montas and Sean Manaea, the bullpen has been a bright spot for the Mets.

Follow the Post’s live updates from Citi Field for the latest Mets score, news and highlights.

Juan Soto praises Mets fans

By Ryan Dunleavy

Turn away, Yankees fans.

While Yankees fans are chanting profanity about Juan Soto, the All-Star who left behind the pinstripes for $765 million with the Mets is singing the praises of his new fans.

Soto had an RBI double, a stolen base and a run scored in the Mets' 5-0 win against the Blue Jays, completing a successful home opener.

Does Citi Field already feel like home?

"Yeah," Soto chuckled after the game. "It feels great. This fan base is amazing. Like I said in the past, I didn't realize how many fans they have and how passionate they are. It's really cool."

Pete Alonso's second act

By Ryan Dunleavy

With all the free-agent drama behind him, Pete Alonso is doing what he does best.

He has mashed three home runs in the first seven games of the season, including the two-run shot to set the first-inning tone in the Mets' 5-0 victory Friday against the Blue Jays in the home opener.

"Today was sick," Alonso told SNY's Steve Gelbs on the field after the game. "Thank you for all the love y'all. Thank you."

Many fans stayed to chant "Pe-te A-lon-so!" as he talked.

Alonso said moments like this one are what you "dream of as a kid."

Mets win

By Ryan Dunleavy

Home-openers don't get much cleaner than that one.

The Mets beat the Blue Jays, 5-0, on Friday night behind Pete Alonso's two-run home run, RBI doubles from Juan Soto and Brandon Nimmo, and stellar pitching led by Tylor Megill.

It was the Mets' first shutout of the season and their 13th in a home-opener in franchise history.

Megill and three relief pitchers combined on a four-hitter to snap the Blue Jays' four-game winning streak.

Home opener dub! pic.twitter.com/613uz192ZN

— SNY Mets (@SNY_Mets) April 4, 2025

Two thieves

By Ryan Dunleavy

The Mets aren't satisfied with their 5-0 lead eighth-inning lead.

Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto both stole bases off of pitcher Yariel Rodriguez.

Lindor was on second base with no outs when Soto hit a comebacker. Rodriguez made the play to catch Lindor in a rundown between second and third base.

But Soto quickly took Lindor's place by swiping second. Soto only had seven stolen bases for the Yankees last season.

Happy Max

By Ryan Dunleavy

Max Kranick, who grew up a Mets fan, is pitching for the home team at Citi Field.

The 27-year-old Pennsylvania native struck out Bo Bichette to open his outing, with his family in the stands filming the moment. He worked through the top of the Blue Jays' lineup for a scoreless eighth inning, as the Mets held onto a 5-0 lead.

SNY broadcaster Gary Cohen said that Kranick's father used to take him to Mets games during the Jose Reyes era but that he never made it to an Opening Day.

Kranick pitched for the Pirates in 2021 and 2022 before undergoing Tommy John surgery. He was in the Mets' minor-league system in 2024.

Max Kranick's family is in the stands as he pitches in the Mets' home opener.

Kranick grew up as a Mets fan pic.twitter.com/vZJFghpwGD

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 4, 2025

No home run for you

By Ryan Dunleavy

The Mets' shutout is still in tact.

Replay review overturned the third-base umpire's call of a solo home run for the Blue Jays' Ernie Clement with one out in the seventh inning. A reprieve for pitcher A.J. Minter.

Clement seemed to know the wrong call had been made as the ball landed on the wrong side of the left-field foul pole because he was delayed in trotting around the bases and then ultimately only did so half-heartedly.

Clement was holding a bat near the dugout as the MLB replay office looked at video. He stepped back into the batter's box after the right call was made and promptly struck out.

Ernie Clement's long foul ball was initially called a home run on the field.

The call was overturned on review. pic.twitter.com/RzJgFktgzG

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 4, 2025

Soto delivers

By Ryan Dunleavy

Juan Soto has his first big hit for the Mets at Citi Field.

The $765 million man ripped a hanging slider into the right-field corner for a RBI to give the Mets a 3-0 lead. Maybe a little bit of home-cooking from the official scorer who ignored the trouble that right fielder Alan Roden had fielding the ball cleanly.

A few minutes later, Brandon Nimmo doubled home Soto to make it 4-0.

Both doubles were by left-handed hitters off of left-handed pitching.

Juan Soto brings home Francisco Lindor with an RBI double!

It's his first Citi Field hit as a Met 🔥 pic.twitter.com/Yt3pq7bTcO

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 4, 2025

Extra! Extra! Reed all about it

By Ryan Dunleavy

Mess cleaned up.

Reed Garrett replaced Tylor Megill with the two on and one out in the sixth inning and preserved the Mets' 2-0 lead by getting back-to-back strikeouts of Andres Gimenez and Alejandro Kirk.

Garrett made the mess a little extra hairy with a wild pitch that moved the two runners he inherited from Megill into scoring position. Megill has now allowed one earned run in four career starts against the Blue Jays.

The lead is in the bullpen's hands now.

Trouble brewing in 6th

By Ryan Dunleavy

The dreaded "third time through the lineup" for a starting pitcher has come for Tylor Megill.

After he retired leadoff batter Bo Bichette for the third time in as many at-bats, Megill issued back-to-back one-out walks to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Anthony Santander.

With that minor hiccup, Megill was pulled after 82 pitches in favor of Reed Garrett. He struck out four, walked three and allowed two hits in 5 1/3 innings.

First mascot race

By Ryan Dunleavy

The Mets debuted their new mascot race in the middle of the third inning of their home opener Friday at Citi Field and after the Bronx giraffe got off to an early lead, the mascot tumbled to the ground on the warning track and the hometown Queens subway car came back and won.

Also featured was the Brooklyn slice of pizza, the skyscraper from Manhattan and the ferry from Staten Island. -- by Dan Martin

The first ever 5-Borough Mascot Race 👀 pic.twitter.com/S3DS6OJ5yB

— New York Mets (@Mets) April 4, 2025

Juiced balls?

By Ryan Dunleavy

Pete Alonso's opposite-field two-run home run with a flick of the wrists had SNY's Gary Cohen wondering if he might be getting a little help.

Actually, if all hitters are getting a little help.

"The ball has really been carrying early in the season," Cohen said. "You have to be awfully strong to do it, but that was a shocking home run. ... It certainly makes you consider what might be going on, whether the baseball might be a little more jumpy than it was last year."

Alan Roden's reaction to Alonso's 375-foot big fly only fanned the flames. Roden looked like he thought he might have a play on the ball until he ran out of room.

There had been 234 home runs hit across MLB entering Friday's action.

In 2022, MLB reportedly used three different ball types despite MLB's denials. Here we go again?

What's going on with the baseballs?

"It certainly makes you consider what might be going on, whether the baseball might be a little more jumpy than it was last year," - Gary Cohen. pic.twitter.com/m45AkZ7WlQ

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 4, 2025

10 in a row

By Ryan Dunleavy

A pitcher's duel is developing.

The Mets jumped out to a 2-0 lead only three batters into the game -- on Pete Alonso's home run.

Pitcher Kevin Gausman has responded by retiring 10 batters in a row so that Tylor Megill has no room for error. Megill has allowed just two hits and a walk through four innings.

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