The Mets lost 4-3 to the Angels in extra innings on May 1, 2026, a day after they had already won once and a night that again exposed how little margin they have when the game gets tight. Oswald Peraza was part of an Angels club that kept the pressure on from the start and then finished the job after New York let a one-run lead slip away, then clawed back, then lost it again.
Los Angeles scored first in the opening inning against Nolan McLean, and the run counted after the play at the plate was not overturned. Austin Slater threw out Jorge Soler at third base in that same inning, while Carlos Mendoza did not challenge the first-inning play at third. The Mets answered in the third when Bo Bichette tied it with a single, but the Angels pushed back with two runs in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead. Vaughn Grissom drove in both runs with a two-run single to center.
McLean's night ended after four innings, a short outing that was described as the first time in his young career that one of his starts had ended that quickly. Tobias Myers came on for long relief in the fifth, and the Mets kept fighting. Andy Ibáñez, making his first start as a Met, hit a sacrifice fly, and Tyrone Taylor tied the game with a single in the fifth. The inning turned even more sharply when Ronny Mauricio left after hurting himself on a slide into first base, and Sam Bachman then retired Bichette with the bases loaded in the top of the inning after Mauricio's injury.
That left the game tied until extra innings, when the Angels finally broke through for the winning run and sent the Mets home with another loss after an April that had already been rough. The concern for New York is not just the final score but the pattern: the offense again did not come through enough in the clutch, and a missed first-inning call that was never challenged hung over a game the Mets could not close out.
For a club that had started May with a win earlier in the day, the second game felt like a reminder that the turnaround still has to be earned one tense inning at a time.
