Detroit Tigers at New York Mets: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DET | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| NYM | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
The Story
The New York Mets walked off the Detroit Tigers 3-2 in ten innings on May 13, 2026, at Citi Field, completing a comeback from a two-run deficit surrendered in the first inning. Detroit scored both of its runs early, plating two in the top of the first, and the game remained tense through the middle innings as neither team added to the board until the Mets pulled within one on a Bo Bichette single off Kyle Finnegan in the bottom of the seventh, a hit the DiamondIQ model valued at a 14.2 percentage point swing in New York's favor. The game stayed tied heading into extras, where the DiamondIQ model's estimate of a Mets win stood at 50 percent entering the tenth before the decisive sequence unfolded.
The critical moment came in the bottom of the tenth when Carson Benge singled off Drew Anderson to plate the winning run, a hit that shifted the DiamondIQ model's estimate by 41.4 percentage points and carried the largest win-probability impact of any play in the game. Benge finished as the top performer by WPA, accumulating plus-43.2 percent and a RE24 of plus-1.3 on the night. The path to that walkoff was cleared in part by a Kenley Jansen strikeout of A.J. Ewing in the bottom of the ninth, which added 14.0 percentage points to New York's win probability by preserving the tie, and by Wenceel Pérez's flyout in the top of the tenth off Brooks Raley, which prevented Detroit from retaking the lead and was worth 11.1 percentage points in the Mets' favor.
On the mound, Framber Valdez was the standout performer, contributing plus-34.8 percent WPA to lead all pitchers, with Huascar Brazobán and Devin Williams adding plus-15.2 and plus-13.5 percent respectively as the Mets bullpen held Detroit scoreless after the first inning across nine frames. Spencer Torkelson's strikeout against Luke Weaver in the top of the eighth represented the single most damaging moment for Detroit's offense in the late innings, costing the Tigers 9.6 percentage points of win probability. The final swing of the DiamondIQ model moved from an even 50 percent pre-game home win probability to a certain 100 percent at the moment Benge's single fell in.