Cincinnati — Embarrassment lurks and Mets reacts.
On Wednesday night, a bunch of manager Buck Showalter showed resilience on the verge of returning home after losing the series to the miserable Reds. This was noticeable early in the season, but has been lacking in the last few weeks.
Dominic Smith, James McCann and Brandon Nimmo scored a big hit in the 10th inning after Starling Marte drew in the 9th inning, scoring the Mets 8-3 at the Great American Ball Park. I made you win.
Mets maintained the 2½ game lead in the Braves in the NL East with two wins in three games in the series.
“To reach your final goal, you need to win a game like this,” Smith says. "It's just part of being a good team. It's not always clean, but if we can find a way to win the ball game, we'll be where we want at the end of the year."
Within two outs of losing in the ninth round, Mets rebounded. Marte hit a double on third base to win Nimo. Nimo started the rally with a single out. Hunter Strickland was leading 1-2 in the count before Marte drew 3-3.
Francisco Lindor, standing in the on-deck circle, initially thought that the Mets had received a gift at Marte's double, but couldn't review it.
"I thought it was a foul," Linder said of Marte's chopper past Donovan Solano's stretched gloves. "I asked the third base umpire and he said it was right above the bag. The other teams didn't complain, so they must have understood it correctly. In their manager. He knew a [David Bell], so if he thought it was a foul, he would have been thrown. "
In the 10th inning, Smith's Daurimoreta one-out double was automatic. Won the runner's ender insiate. McCann continued with a two-out single, sliding Smith across the plate with an insurance run. But the Mets weren't over. Nimo shot into the right fielder's seat for the second three-run home run in the series.
"It's a very important victory, despite opposition to Cincinnati," Nimo said. "They made us fight, scratch and claw for everything we got throughout this series. They may not have a great record, but they They didn't play that way when they were playing us. "
The Mets wasted Max Scherzer's gems and lost 1-0 in nine sacrifice flies. The next night, an aggressive explosion was welcomed.
Mets has future challenges. The resurrected Marlins team will head to Citi Field in four games before the Mets head to Atlanta for three days starting Monday.
"We are facing one of the hottest teams in baseball [Thursday]," Shaw Alter said of the Marlins.
This evening, the Mets received a big bullpen performance from Adonis Medina, Colin Holderman, Adam Ottavino and Edwin Diaz. These players combined 6¹ / ₃ scoreless innings behind David Peterson.
When returning from his father's list, after the birth of his son, Peterson only lasted 3² / ₃ innings, with four hits, three earned runs and one batter. Allowed 5 walks.
"I wish I could have gone longer," Peterson said. .. "But all the work goes to the bullpen men."
The second Nick Senzel two-run home run placed the Mets in the 2-1 hole. Matt Reynolds walked before Senzel made his second home run in the series. The explosion was the fourth time Peterson was allowed on the last three starts after surrendering only three times in the previous ten appearances.
Kyle Farmer's third RBI extended the Reds' lead to 3-1. Brandon Drury stole a single and second to start the rally.
Senzel, Albert Almora Jr. and Michael Papierski (bottom of the Reds) faced Peterson fourth. However, the left-handed player took a break when Tomas Nido, who put the puppy key on the plate, picked up Senzel from second base. Medina replaced Peterson with two outs and defeated Drury to keep Mets' deficit 3-2. Medina provided Mets with three scoreless innings and defeated four. The third straight rookie pitcher, Graham Ashcraft, who started in the Reds of the
series, surrendered the RBI single to Jeff McNeil in one go. Nimo was hit by a lead pitch and Pete Alonso became a single with two outs ahead of McNeil's single. Nimo's plunge was the 50th in his career, connecting him with Michael Conforto for the highest record in Mets history.
Mets pulled within 3-2 in his fourth RBI RBI single. Smith's lead-off double gave Mets the first extra-base hit in the game.