Jonah Tong picks up the win in his MLB debut! ⚡️ (6 strikeouts in 5 innings!)

8/29/2025: Highlights from Jonah Tong’s dynamite MLB debut (Mets vs. Marlins).

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[Music] Jonah Tong grew up in Markham, Ontario. He’ll be the first Canadian to start a game on the mount for the Mets since 1962 when both Ken McKenzie and Ray Davio started games for the Mets. And now 63 years later, Jonah Tong becomes the third Canadian to start a game on the mound for the Mets. Jonah Tong’s minor league numbers are just off the charts. Sorry, Gary. Yes, just crazy. You want to look at one number? 113 and 2/3 innings pitched. Three numbers, sorry. 58 hits. That’s absurd. And strikeouts 179. I don’t even know how mathematically you get there. Riverz, the rookie catcher, pops his first pitch up. And Batty on the right side of the infield, waits for it to come down. Side retired. The quickest of innings for Jonah Ton. Six pitches. One, two, three. And that’s how his big league career begins. Mets come to Matt. will score. So two out and a runner at third and now Troy Johnston 22 it back to the mound. Tong quickly on it side retire. So Jonah Tong works around the leadoff double and strands Lopez at third. Still five nothing New York and he got him. Curve ball from Tong for his first major league punch out as he gets Joey Weaver. And they’ll take that ball out of play. Another one for the mantlepiece. A real 12-6 curve ball there from Jonah. He gets a 5-ft average vertical drop on his curve ball. Yeah, that’s all at least drop from the heavens. Had quite the rookie year at age 24. 3-2 coming and Todd got him looking at a fast ball. So Taunt with his second strike out and now they’re two away. Just a blazer right at the bottom of the strike zone. Gets the call from Andy Fletcher. Nice job of Torren and framing that pitch. Caught plenty of plate just whether it was high enough. Two two to Lopez and he tries to hold the swing and he went around strike three. Got him with the change up. Third strike out for Tom. Seventh pitch of the at bat to Norby and he got him looking on a fast ball. Fourth strike out for Jonah Tong. One, two, three in the fourth. And Weaver takes strike three call. Fast ball gets him looking. Five strikeouts for Tong. One out in the inning. So MLB put out this photo side by side. Look at that. Lindigum on the right, Tong on the left. Wow. Unbelievable. Again, what we showed earlier, see the open foot from Tong and the foot straight at the plate by Lindigum, but that’s really the only noticeable difference. Well, the other difference is Lindum had that enormous follow through. His dad taught him at the end of your delivery, you need to be picking up a dollar bill off the mound. That’s right. So, he extended that hand and you saw it coming across in a way that Tong see that how far down that hand is. Full extension. Kong does it a little differently. Yeah. Tongue wraps it close into his body. Tong has struck out five tonight. Make it six. Jonah Tom finishes off the Marlins in the top of the fifth. On his 97th pitch, Jonah Tong leaves with an eight-run lead in his Major League debut. Six strikeouts in five terrific innings. [Applause]