The Mets sent the game to extra-innings after tying it in the ninth, but eventually fell to the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-4.
Here are the takeaways...
- Down a run in their last turn at bat and facing All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel, Brett Baty launched a solo shot to the deepest part of the ballpark that tied the game at four all. Baty has now homered twice in his last three games.
Baty then made a nice play in the bottom half of the inning, throwing out the speedy Trea Turner with the potential winning run on third base that sent the game to extra innings.
- In extras, the Mets loaded the bases and had their best power threat up at the plate in Pete Alonso, but Alonso struck out to end the frame. The following half-inning, the Phillies wasted no time to score the game-winning run and won 5-4.
- Alonso kicked things off in this one in the top of the first inning with a bloop double off former Met Taijuan Walker that scored Brandon Nimmo who led off the game with a walk and advanced to second on a ground out. Alonso now has 115 RBI on the season and is five away from 500 career RBI.
- That would be all the scoring until the fifth inning as both Walker and Tylor Megill looked sharp early on. In fact, Megill didn’t allow his first hit of the game until the third inning when Kyle Schwarber blooped a two-out double of his own.
- New York added another run in the fifth thanks to three straight one-out singles by Rafael Ortega, Omar Narvaez and Nimmo whose base hit extended the Mets’ lead to 2-0. The rally was cut short after Walker picked off Narvaez at second base before striking out Francisco Lindor to end the inning.
- Staked to a two-run lead and still cruising, Megill allowed a leadoff double to Nick Castellanos the next half-inning, but stranded him there after a strikeout and two pop-fly outs. He wasn’t so lucky in the sixth.
After hitting Bryce Harper with one out, Megill allowed an infield single to Alec Bohm. Bohm chopped one towards the middle of the diamond where Lindor ranged over and then tried flipping the ball to second base to get the force out. The shortstop’s throw was slightly wide of Ronny Mauricio who couldn’t make a play and everybody was safe.
Undeterred, Megill came back to strike out Bryson Stott for the second out and had a path out of the inning. But on his first pitch to J.T. Realmuto, the catcher skied one to left-center field that cleared the wall and gave the Phillies their first lead of the night, 3-2. Megill finished off the inning before his night was done.
His final line: six innings, five hits, three earned runs, one walk and six strikeouts on 99 pitches (62 strikes).
- Philadelphia brought home another in the seventh on Schwarber’s RBI single off Phil Bickford who got into further trouble later in the inning, but escaped by getting Bohm to fly out after intentionally walking Harper.
- New York got that run right back in the top of the eighth after Lindor hit a solo shot from the right side of the plate off left-hander Gregory Soto. The homer was Lindor’s 27th of the season, a new record by a Mets shortstop which Lindor set last year, as his quest for a 30/30 season rages on.