Mets Hang On To Beat Nationals 9-7 in 10 Innings Powered By Martinez and Iglesias

 

Mets D.H. J.D. Martinez (Photo Credits to Alex Brandon-AP)

The New York Mets beat the Washington Nationals 9-7 in 10 innings tonight at Nationals Park and improved their record back to .500 at 41-41.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the first five innings against LHP MacKenzie Gore, but then came alive in the top of the sixth.

CF Harrison Bader led off with a single and then stole second and three batters later, 3B Mark Vientos drove in Bader with a RBI single.

RF Tyrone Taylor then reached on an error by SS C.J. Abrams and catcher Francisco Alvarez followed with a two-run double.

The offense did not do much for the next three innings and then erupted in the top of the tenth for six runs.

Bader led off with a hit by pitch and then D.H. J.D. Martinez delivered a three-run homer to bring in Bader and Lindor who started the inning at second as the ghost runner.

Three batters later, Taylor doubled and Alvarez followed with a RBI triple.

2B Jose Iglesias followed with a two-run homer.

LHP David Peterson started out well with two scoreless innings and then gave up two RBI singles to DH Harold Ramirez and 1B Joey Meneses.

Peterson was able to settle down after that retiring the next 11 hitters he faced before allowing a one-out infield hit to catcher Keibert Ruiz and was then taken out.

His final line was 6.1 innings, seven hits, two runs, one walk and two strikeouts.

RHP Dedniel Nunez followed and got the last two outs in the bottom of the seventh.

Nunez stayed in for the bottom of the eighth and retired the first two hitters he faced and then walked pinch-hitter Jesse Winker and then gave up a RBI double to Meneses that was misplayed by Taylor.

LHP Jake Diekmann came on in the bottom of the ninth and got into trouble after he had a throwing error to allow the lead-off hitter LF James Wood to reach second.

Diekmann then came back to retire the next three hitters he faced and was helped out by his defense after Taylor redeemed himself and made a remarkable catch to rob CF Jacob Young to end the inning.

Diekmann picked up his second win of the season.

RHP Ty Jay came on in the bottom of the tenth and had a difficult outing allowing four runs on a RBI double hy Winker, two-run double by 2B Ildemaro Vargas and a RBI single by Ruiz and was taken out with two outs in the inning.

RHP Reed Garrett had to come in and gave up a RBI single to Ruiz and then came back to strike out 2B Luis Garcia Jr to close out the game and pick up his fourth save of the season.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Tuesday, July 2 at the Nationals at 6:45 p.m.