Francisco Lindor made it look like the upset was on early, taking Peralta deep to right field in the 1st inning to give New York a lead. It didn't last.
Peralta answered by putting up 6 shutout-until-the-late-innings work, and Yandy Diaz's solo shot in the 6th kicked off a 3-run frame that buried Manaea, who got tagged for 11 hits before he was pulled. It was the second straight strong outing for Peralta, who allowed 0 earned runs over 6.0 innings his last time out against Detroit and followed it with 1 earned run over 6.0 more against the Mets — a very different pitcher than the one New York designed a bullpen role for a month ago.
The two clubs had split the earlier meeting, with the Mets taking the opener 3-2 behind Robert Stock and Mark Vientos going deep in his return from a fractured hand. This result levels that set. Tampa Bay is still chasing a division race at 82-55; New York, at 62-76, is mostly playing out a schedule, and Tuesday's line score made the gap between those two situations look exactly as wide as the records suggest.
New York will keep leaning on kids to fill the innings its bullpen has lost — Triple-A Syracuse's Jonah Tong, the org's No. 2 pitching prospect, nearly threw a no-hitter in his last outing and is squarely in the conversation for a callup. For a Rays team already 27 games over .500, nights like this one are closer to the expectation than the exception.