MIAMI — Sean Manaea got everybody out Tuesday night before he couldn’t get anybody out.

After retiring the first 15 batters he faced, the Mets left-hander returned for the sixth inning and didn’t record another out.

Such has been Manaea’s season, which has alternated between impressive and, mostly, disappointing.

The Mets survived the bizarre performance for a 7-5 victory over the Marlins at loanDepot park to win their third straight series.

Manaea rolled perfect into the sixth, at 52 pitches before Jakob Marsee blooped a single over third base leading off the inning.

It was the first of five straight hits allowed over only nine pitches by Manaea, who was removed by interim manager Andy Green with three runs already across and runners on first and second.

Sean Manaea (left) is taken out of the game by Andy Green in the sixth inning of the Mets’ 7-5 win over the Marlins on Sept. 8, 2026 in Miami. AP

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Overall, Manaea was charged for four earned runs on five hits with four strikeouts.

It continued a pattern of Manaea starting strong before encountering trouble the third (or in this case toward the latter end of the second) time through the lineup.

“The sixth inning just has been kryptonite to me,” Manaea said. “I don’t really know what is going on.”

He admitted those sixth-inning blues — which were also prevalent in his starts against the Nationals, White Sox, Brewers and Rays — have entered his mind lately on the mound.

“It’s been the last [several] games, it’s kind of hard not to think about,” Manaea said. “At this point it’s just mental. It’s going on, I feel like I’m making some good pitches, but one day I will figure it out.”

It certainly helped that the Mets built a seven-run lead for Manaea by hitting three home runs against Sandy Alcantara.

Juan Soto accepts congratulations from teammates after hitting a three-run homer in the second inning of the Mets’ 7-5 win over the Marlins on Sept. 8, 2026 in Miami. Getty Images

Jared Serna delivered an RBI double in the sixth for the Marlins’ initial run.

Brian Navarreto followed with an RBI double and Heriberto Hernández’s single put runners on the corners.

Otto Lopez’s RBI single concluded Manaea’s night.

Francisco Lindor rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the first inning of the Mets’ win over the Marlins. Getty Images

“That one is hard to even wrap your head around,” Green said. “You are perfect through five innings and barely over 50 pitches, and it was nine pitches and five hits after being that efficient. That was the pocket with the bottom of the order where we feel really good with him out there. It’s not the third time through narrative that might get spun otherwise. It’s the second time those guys are facing him and the lefty Marsee hits the blooper, and it happened fast.”

It was a fifth straight start in which Manaea allowed at least four earned runs.

Over that stretch he’s pitched to a 6.75 ERA.

It followed a stretch of four starts by Manaea where he allowed two earned runs or fewer and pitched at least six innings. He’s pitched to a 4.79 ERA overall in the second season of a three-year contract worth $75 million.

Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto homered in consecutive innings to begin the game, spearheading the offensive attack. Brett Baty also homered on a night the Mets led 6-0 after three innings against Alcantara.

Lindor went deep on the game’s first pitch, jumping on a sinker to clear the center field fence. The Mets added another run in the inning on Jared Young’s RBI single after walks to Soto and Bo Bichette.

Brett Baty is all smiles as he accepts congratulations from his teammats after hitting a solo homer in the third inning of the Mets’ win over the Marlins. Getty Images

Soto crushed a three-run homer to center in the second inning to bury the Marlins in a 5-0 hole.

Francisco Alvarez singled to begin the rally and Lindor got drilled before Soto delivered homer No. 24 this season.

Baty became the third Mets player on this night to clear the center field fence, with a 426-foot shot that extended the lead to 6-0.

Baty’s sacrifice fly in the fifth gave him a second RBI in the game.

Kodai Senga converted his seventh save in as many chances after allowing one run in the ninth on two hits.

The right-hander concluded the game by throwing 10 straight forkballs that resulted in two strikeouts after a visit from pitching coach Justin Willard.

“I don’t think you need me [to say] what the message was there,” Green said.