MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (Interstat) — In a dominant pitching performance that defied pregame projections, the New York Mets shut out the Miami Marlins 5-0 on Saturday evening at loanDepot Park, ensuring a winning season with one game remaining.

The Mets (83-78) snapped a two-game skid and avenged a loss to the Marlins from the previous afternoon, while Miami (78-83) saw its hopes of a .500 season extinguished in front of a crowd of 35,609.

The story of the game was the Mets’ pitching staff, which held the Marlins to a single hit. Starter Clay Holmes was masterful, earning his 12th win of the season by tossing six shutout innings, allowing just one hit—a third-inning single by Xavier Edwards—while walking two and striking out two. Holmes efficiently navigated minimal trouble, stranding two runners in both the third and fifth innings.

“He had everything working tonight,” a Mets spokesperson said of Holmes. “He kept their hitters off balance and pounded the strike zone.”

The bullpen trio of Tyler Rogers, Brooks Raley and Edwin Díaz preserved the shutout with a perfect inning each, combining for three strikeouts and allowing no baserunners.

Their effort rendered a strong but ultimately costly outing from Miami’s Eury Pérez irrelevant. Pérez, who fell to 7-6, was electric at times, striking out 11 Mets batters over 5 1/3 innings. However, he was tagged for all three of the Mets’ early runs.

New York struck immediately. Francisco Lindor worked a leadoff walk in the first inning and scored on Pete Alonso’s RBI double. Alonso then provided the power in the third inning, launching a solo home run, his 38th of the season, to deep left-center field to double the lead.

The Mets added a third run off Pérez in the sixth. Alonso walked, and after a pitching change that brought in Josh Simpson, Jeff McNeil drove him home with an RBI double. Simpson and relievers Lake Bachar and Michael Petersen kept the Mets off the board until the ninth inning, when New York tacked on two insurance runs against George Soriano. Francisco Álvarez and Tyrone Taylor singled, and Lindor followed with an RBI single. Another run scored on a wild pitch during a walk to Juan Soto.

The Marlins’ offense never threatened after Edwards’ single in the third. They managed only three baserunners total, with two walks and a hit batsman in the ninth, but could not advance a runner past second base.

The result flipped the script from Friday’s contest and confounded the Interstat game simulator, which had projected a 7-6 Marlins victory. The Mets, who were slight pregame favorites, improved their record in the season series against Miami.

The two teams conclude their 2025 seasons with the finale of the three-game series on Sunday afternoon.