Mets Rally To Beat Phillies 5-4 On a Walk-Off Double By Eduardo Escobar

 

Mets RHP Chris Bassitt (Photo Credits to Wendell Cruz-USA Today Sports)

The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 tonight at Citi Field to sweep their three-game series and improved their record to 32-17.

The offense got on the board immediately in the bottom of the first after 2B Luis Guillorme led off with a double and then RF Starling Marte followed with a single.

SS Francisco Lindor then grounded into a fielder's choice that drove in Guillorme and also allowed Marte to reach second after SS Jorge Carmargo made a fielding error,

1B Pete Alonso then hit a bloop single and 3B Eduardo Escobar followed with a RBI ground-out to bring in the second run of the game.

CF Mark Canha came up next and hit a RBI ground-out to bring in the third run of the inning.

The bats did not much after that until the bottom of the ninth after LF Nick Plummer led off and hit his first homer of his career in his first start to tie the game. It was the first time since 2006 that a Met has hit his first career homer in the ninth inning or later.

In the bottom of the tenth, Lindor led off and struck out, but then 1B Pete Alonso was intentionally walked and then Escobar came up and delivered a walk-off RBI double to bring in Marte who started the inning on second base as the automatic runner.

RHP Chris Bassitt started out well with two scoreless innings, but ran into trouble in the top of the third after he gave up a lead-off double to CF Odubel Herrera and then walked SS Jorge Camargo and LF Kyle Schwarber to load the bases.

Bassitt was able to limit the damage in the inning after he was able to get the next hitter 3B Alec Bohm to hit into a double play which brought in a run, but did not allow any more runs in the inning and kept a 3-1 lead after the top of the third.

Bassitt settled down into a nice groove after that and retired the last 10 hitters he faced.

His final line was 6 innings, 2 runs, 1 run, 3 walks and 7 strikeouts.

RHP Drew Smith followed in the top of the seventh and retired the first two hitters he faced, but then ran into trouble after he tried to deflect a comebacker to the next hitter catcher J.T. Realmuto which caused him to leave the game with a pinky injury.

LHP Joely Rodriguez came in to get the last out in the top of the seventh.

Rodriguez stayed in for the top of the eighth and worked around two walks and retired Schwarber on a ground-out and DH Bryce Harper on a fly-out and was taken out after Harper flew out.

RHP Adam Ottavino cane in next and gave up a three-run homer to RF Nick Castellanos.

RHP Stephen Nogosek threw a scoreless top of the ninth

RHP Edwin Diaz threw a scoreless top of the tenth and picked up his second win.

The Mets next game is at home against the Washington Nationals tomorrow night, Monday May 30th at 7:10 p.m.