After a chaotic road trip, during which his lethal coaches were surprisingly fired shortly after a game in St. Louis, the Mets returned to the friendly grounds of the City ground on Friday.
Anarchy took him back to Queens.
In a game that featured a mysterious ruckus in the home dugout tunnel and a game-tying Francisco Lindor home run in a single inning, the Mets earned an extra-inning, walk-off victory in their second catch thanks to their third catch. Of. Career Plate Attendance.
The last man on the bench left Patrick Mejica, played Hero in the 10th inning with a dribbler between the mounds and brought home first base third to Pete Alonso and gave the Mets a 5-4 win over the Diamondbacks.
Alonso started 10th at second base and the Diamondbacks intentionally drove Dominic Smith to bring in Kevin Pilar. Pilar flew to the right field, but it was deep enough to tag Alonso and advance to third. The Diamondbacks responded deliberately to Jonathan Willer, loading the bases of the maze, which hit the pitch spot.
Diamondbacks reliever Stephen Crickton tried to flip Carson Kelly to catch the grounder, but he failed and the victory sent the crowd into a frenzy.
The Mets’ offense was mostly calmed down to the seventh floor, when Lindor gave up a two-run home run off reliever Caleb Smith to tie the game at 4-4. Lindor, who only broke a 0-for-26 piece on Thursday, thumped his chest while running down the first base line. A crowd of 7,662, who greeted him with a boon twice before retiring earlier in the game, bathed him lovingly, rounding the bases.
Owner Steve Cohen tweeted about Homer’s tying the game to his $ 341 million shortstop, saying he was big.
Edwin Diaz opened the ninth inning for the Mets and drew some help from an old friend. Former Met Asadrubal Kabrera led off the inning with a bullet to right field, but was thrown out by Michael Conforto as he tried to stretch the single into a double. Diaz then retained the next two batsmen, allowing the Mets to finish ninth.
Jeff McNeill took home ninth with a single and Lindor tried to push him to second, but his bunt barely left the area in front of home plate, with Diamondbacks catcher Carson Kelly leading McNeil to second. Turned out. Conforto and Alonso then flew, sending the game to extras.
Aaron Lupp took the top of the 10–3, worked a 1-2–3 inning and left the automatic baser at second base, where he had started.
Prior to Lindor’s outburst – his second of the season and his first in more than two weeks – Zac Gallon had stopped the Mets for six innings. They only went to him for a pair of RBI singles – one from Conforto, driving to Lindor in the third inning, and another from Jonathan Willer in the sixth.
The Mets were put into a hole with a short start by David Peterson, who was just five outs on 55 pitches. He gave away three hits, three walks and three runs – all of which came in the second innings. He loaded Galen with two outs to walk the bases, then hit a batter and released a walk back-to-back to emphasize the runs and put the Diamondbacks ahead 3–0.
Manager Luis Rojas eventually decided that he saw enough after that, dragging Peterson after 1 ₃ / ings innings. Robert Gusselman went on to get a foul pop-up from the bullpop, ending the inning with a nice sliding catch by James McCain and leaving the bases loaded.
Peterson’s brief outing was doing especially for a Mets team that already faced the prospect of a bullpen game on Saturday. But a parade of relievers – Gusselman, who allowed a run in the third, Tommy Hunter, Jacob Barnes and Miguel Castro – helped keep the game within reach and Diaz got the ball in the ninth.
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