The Marlins outslugged the Mets on Saturday evening at Citi Field.

David Peterson’s worst outing of the season was too much for the Mets’ offense to overcome, as Miami evened the three-game series with a 11-8 victory. Peterson surrendered eight runs on eight hits in two innings of work, jumping his season ERA to 3.61.

The southpaw gave up five runs in the top of the first as the Marlins slugged three doubles in the opening frames. Peterson pitched a scoreless second before being charged with three more runs in the third as he was replaced by Chris Devenski with nobody out in the inning.

However, the Mets did make a valiant attempt at climbing out of the hole that Peterson put them in as Juan Soto nearly came to the rescue. Soto smashed two homers on Saturday afternoon, a solo shot i

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