The Mets got stung by a familiar face as Freddy Peralta dealt six innings of one-run ball in a 6-2 loss to the Rays on Tuesday night in Tampa.

New York (62-77) had some chances but went 0-for-5 with RISP, left six men on base, struck out 11 times, and after getting three hits in the first inning, didn't manage one the rest of the night. Tampa (83-55) won its 47th home game of the season, tied for second most in baseball.

Here are the takeaways...

- Francisco Lindor got the game started off with a bang, driving Peralta’s 3-2 hanging breaking pitch 367 feet to right for a home run, his 15th of the year. After Bo Bichette and Carson Benge singled, the Mets had the chance for a big inning with one down. But Jared Young went down swinging and Brett Baty flied out to left to spurn the Mets’ first RBI chance.

Peralta then put his former team to the sword. After allowing two men aboard, he set down 17 of the next 18 batters with six strikeouts, allowing only a hit-by-pitch, to get him through six innings on just 74 pitches (53 strikes), leaving the game with a 5-1 lead.

- Tampa went to lefty Garrett Cleavinger out of the bullpen to start the seventh, and he walked three of the first four Mets batters he faced. With righty Tyler Wells the new pitcher, interim manager Andy Green countered with Mark Vientos off the bench, but he popped out to the catcher in foul territory.

Lindor, who jumped on a pitch but yanked it foul and was down 1-2, worked a full-count walk for his second RBI. Juan Soto, who was hitless in his first three times up, couldn't make Tampa pay as he hit a high pop-up just past the mound to leave 'em loaded.

The Mets went 0-for-26 with four walks and a HBP after Benge's single in the first.

- Sean Manaea entered with a lead but couldn't hold it as he allowed a leadoff double to Yandy Diaz and a one-out RBI single. After a double-play and a five-pitch second, the lefty gave up a second run as the Rays manufactured it with a single, sacrifice bunt, walk, and a single to right. But the lefty limited the Rays to just one run, getting around a bases-loaded, two-out situation after an error.

Trouble was brewing for Manaea in the fourth as the Rays had two men on after back-to-back one-out singles (both coming on soft contact), but a couple of flyouts ended the threat.

The sixth inning has been a rough one for Manaea of late, and Tuesday night proved no different: a single, an RBI double down the third-base line, a productive out, and a sac fly to left, followed by a walloped solo homer to left by Diaz (396 feet, 104.7 mph off the bat), and a triple rocketed (105.4 mph) to the right-center gap ending the starter’s night.

His final line: 5.2 innings, five runs on 11 hits and a walk with two strikeouts on 86 pitches (59 strikes).

- Francisco Alvarez went hitless in four at-bats with two strikeouts and a warning-track flyout.

- A.J. Ewing was 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts.

- Nick Morabito, just called up ahead of the game as the rosters expanded, entered the game looking for his first big-league hit and instead got plunked for the second time in 13 times up with the Mets. He went 0-for-2 before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the seventh.

- Lindor, who committed his 10th error of the year in the third, went 1-for-3 with a walk and two batted in.

- Bichette went 1-for-4 with a strikeout.

- Benge went 1-for-4 with a strikeout.

- Young finished 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts.

- Baty was hitless in two trips with a strikeout before being lifted for pinch-hitter Marcus Semien, who walked and grounded out in his two times to bat.

- After Austin Warren put out the fire in the sixth, Dylan Ross needed 11 pitches for a 1-2-3 bottom of the seventh in his first MLB appearance. (Ross, who could be headed back to the minors after the game, became the answer to a fun trivia question as he joined Wilmer Flores and John Pacella as the only three Mets to make their big league debuts on their birthday.)

- Jefry Yan struck out the first batter he faced before he got smacked for a single and a double. After another strikeout, Yan got stung with bad luck as a hard liner hit him, and his flip to Alvarez at the plate couldn't beat the runner to give the game its final score.

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