TORONTO (AP) — Nolan McLean and three relievers combined on a six-hitter, Francisco Alvarez and Luis Torrens both hit solo home runs and the New York Mets beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 on Tuesday night.
Brooks Raley pitched the seventh, Luke Weaver worked the eighth and Devin Williams finished for his 12th save in 13 chances.
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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman (34) gestures to a teammate against the New York Mets during the first inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor (12) flies out against the Toronto Blue Jays during the second inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets third baseman Bo Bichette (19) fields the ball on a single by Toronto Blue Jays' George Springer during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets pitcher Nolan McLean (26) works against the Toronto Blue Jays during the first inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets' Francisco Alvarez (4) celebrates his solo home run against the Toronto Blue Jays with teammate Brett Baty (7) during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
The Mets posted their fourth shutout and won for the second time in five games since Andy Green took over as interim manager when Carlos Mendoza was fired last Friday.
With their second win in 11 games, the Mets (36-50) avoided falling 16 games below .500. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the most games under .500 for a team that reached the postseason was 16 by the 1914 Boston Braves (12-28).
The Mets are 19-10 when they hit two or more home runs.
The Blue Jays have lost seven of eight. The shutout loss was their fourth.
Toronto slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was scratched because of a sore back.
McLean (5-5) allowed five hits, four singles, to win for the second time in three starts. He walked two and struck out seven.
Alvarez opened the scoring with a leadoff homer off Kevin Gausman in the fifth, his ninth.
Gausman (4-7) allowed one run and five hits in six innings, his seventh straight winless start. He walked two and struck out seven.
Torrens doubled New York’s advantage with a one-out blast in the seventh against Mason Fluharty, his second of the season.
Brett Baty's sacrifice fly off Tommy Nance in the ninth made it 3-0.
The Blue Jays bumped struggling LHP Patrick Corbin from Wednesday’s scheduled start and moved him to the bullpen. Toronto hadn’t named a replacement starter for the Canada Day matinee. RHP Freddy Peralta (5-6, 4.53 ERA) is scheduled for the Mets.
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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman (34) gestures to a teammate against the New York Mets during the first inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor (12) flies out against the Toronto Blue Jays during the second inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets third baseman Bo Bichette (19) fields the ball on a single by Toronto Blue Jays' George Springer during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets pitcher Nolan McLean (26) works against the Toronto Blue Jays during the first inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
New York Mets' Francisco Alvarez (4) celebrates his solo home run against the Toronto Blue Jays with teammate Brett Baty (7) during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Toronto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Colorado’s Democratic primaries on Tuesday will help answer a question the party has increasingly faced nationally: Are voters gravitating toward a younger, more progressive generation of leaders or sticking with established veterans?
That choice is starkly reflected in the fight to represent the state's 1st Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette has been in office for as long as her challenger, a 29-year-old democratic socialist named Melat Kiros, has been alive. In a similar faceoff, Sen. John Hickenlooper successfully fended off a primary challenge from self-fashioned “insurgent progressive" state Sen. Julie Gonzales.
And a similar, if smaller, divide separated the two Democrats competing for the U.S. House in the state's lone swing district that's one of the key's in party control of Congress. The candidate considered more progressive, state Rep. Manny Rutinel beat Shannon Bird, another state representative with a more moderate record in the statehouse.
In the Democratic primary for governor, however, the opposite was the case: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet struggled to meaningfully distinguish their agendas. Instead, the two Democrats have accused each other of pulling punches against Trump.
Polls closed at 7 p.m.
DeGette comfortably controlled her House seat in Denver for nearly 30 years, then came Kiros.
In a March Democratic assembly, a process to decide which candidates get on the primary ballot, DeGette barely qualified as Kiros, a first-time candidate, blew past her with more than double the votes.
While the assembly process is far from determinative of who will win Tuesday, it was a jolt for the Democratic establishment and DeGette, who's been a progressive lawmaker herself.
Then, in New York last week, two democratic socialists and a progressive beat out establishment-backed candidates — two of whom were incumbents — in Democratic primaries for U.S. House, energizing a movement that's just finding some political purchase.
Similar to the New York races, Kiros had the endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders, while DeGette was backed by Colorado’s established Democratic House delegation.
A victory by Kiros in Colorado, while far from guaranteed, would work toward cementing the nascent but clear uprising of democratic socialist candidates, which has filled some Democratic leaders with anxiety.
DeGette argued that experience in Congress is needed right now to combat Trump, while Kiros, a former attorney, accused DeGette of ineffectiveness. Also running was University of Colorado Regent Wanda James, who may split the anti-DeGette vote.
Gonzales, the state senator, tried and failed Tuesday to kick Hickenlooper, the more centrist former governor of Colorado, out of his U.S. Senate seat.
She leaned into the same arguments that others used in challenging establishment incumbents, including that Hickenlooper was an “incrementalist."
Gonzales had said she previously joined the Democratic Socialists of America in 2018, but that her membership has lapsed.
Colorado's 8th Congressional District is relatively new and stretches from the northern suburbs of Denver up through farming country, but it's drawn national focus as a highly competitive swing district as Democrats seek to retake control of the House.
Initially, party leaders though the more moderate Bird was best equipped to challenge Republican Rep. Gabe Evans. But Rutinel, who had the more progressive record, beat Bird Tuesday night.
The district is also heavily Hispanic and poorer than much of the rest of the state, and that's where Rutinel, who is Latino, planted a flag, arguing his personal story and more aggressive economic agenda would be more potent against Evans.
Weiser and Bennet slugged that question out in the governor's race after struggling to show major differences in their political agendas.
Weiser attacked Bennet for voting for Trump nominees and Bennet lambasted Weiser for not joining state lawsuits against the first Trump administration.
“The attorney general says he’s really tough but was completely missing in action in Donald Trump’s first term," Bennet said in a recent debate.
Weiser accused Bennet of a weak response to the president. But he also said Bennet should remain in the Senate instead of running for governor.
“You’ve made some mistakes; you didn’t stand up the way you should. I know you can shape up, use your seniority," Weiser told Bennet during a debate. “With all that experience, to throw it away, would be such a waste for Colorado.”
With Colorado a blue state, Tuesday's Democratic winner will be seen as the favorite to defeat the winner of the GOP primary and take over from term-limited Gov. Jared Polis.
The three main candidates seeking the Republican nomination included state Rep. Scott Bottoms, a further right state lawmaker. State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer was considered the more conventional Republican, while Victor Marx was something of a wild card candidate with an eclectic past.
Adam Ballinger walks a voters ballot to the box in the Democratic primaries at a drop off location near the Denver Museum of Art, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/Rebecca Slezak)
People vote in the Democratic primaries at Blair-Caldwell Library, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/Rebecca Slezak)
