Monday, May 18, 2026

Mets Beat Nationals 16-7 in 12 Innings With 10-Run 12th Inning

 

Mets LF Tyrone Taylor (Photo Credits to Brad Mills-Imagn Images)


The New York Mets beat the Washington Nationals 16-7 in 12 innings tonight at Nationals Park for their third consecutive win and improved their record to 21-26.

The Met offense was held scoreless in the top of the first and then in the top of the second with two outs, LF Tyrone Taylor singled and catcher Luis Torrens followed with a RBI double.

After a scoreless top of the third, 3B Brett Baty homered to lead off the top of the fourth.

In the top of the fifth, Torrens led off and reached on an error by 1B Luis Garcia Jr and RF Carson Benge followed with a walk. SS Bo Bichette then flew out to right to advance Torrens and Benge to second and third. 

DH Juan Soto came up next and drove in Torrens and Benge with a two-run single.

In the top of the seventh, Bichette finally came through with a solo homer.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the next three innings until the top of the eleventh after Baty advanced pinch-runner Vidal Brujan to third wih a fly-out and then 2B Marcus Semien drove in Brujan with a sacrifice fly.

In the top of the twelfth, catcher Hayden Senger lead off with a sacrifice bunt to advance Taylor to third.

Benge then reached on an infield hit which brought home a run. Bichette followed with a single and Soto was intentionally walked.

Brujan then reached on a bunt single to score Benge.

Baty followed with a two-run single to score Bichette and Soto.

Semian followed with a RBI single to score Brujan.

CF A.J. Ewing followed with a RBI single to score Baty.

Two batters later, Senger singled to load the bases. 

Benge and Bichette then capped off the scoring two-run doubles.

Mets RHP Christian Scott started out well with a 1-2-3 bottom of the first and struck out the first two hitters he faced in the bottom of the second before hitting CF Jacob Young in the ribs.

Scott was clearly rattled by this and gave up a double to the next hitter DH Jose Tena and then walked 2B Jorbit Vivas. Scott gave up a RBI single to the following hitter catcher Jorbit Vivas.

Scott's struggles continued in the bottom of the third after he gave up a single and walk and a RBI double to CF Joey Wiemer.

Scott had a scoreless bottom of the fourth and was taken out after the inning.

His final line was four innings, four hits, three runs, three walks and five strikeouts.

RHP Adam Warren followed with two scoreless innings in the bottom of the fifth and sixth.

LHP Brooks Raley came on in the bottom of the seventh and got into immediate trouble after he gave up a lead-off double to RF James Wood and back-to-backs walks to load the bases. Raley gave up a sacrifice fly to SS C.J. Abrams and two batters later was taken out.

RHP Tobias Myers followed and walked Wiemer to load the bases and then struck out Tena to escape out of trouble.

Myers stayed in for bottom 8th and retired the first two hitters he faced and then gave up a single to Wood and a game-tying RBI double to pinch-hitter Curtis Mead.

RHP Luke Weaver came in next and threw a scoreless bottom of the ninth.

RHP Huascar Brazoban followed in the bottom of the tenth and fielded a bunt to get the first out and then walked Wood. 

Brazoban then walked the based loaded and got 2B Nasim Nunez to ground out to 1B Mark Vientos who threw home and picked up the second out of the inning. Brazoban struck out the following hitter Abrams to end the inning.

Brazoban stayed in for the bottom of the eleventh and gave up a run after a comebacker advanced the runner to third and then an infield hit tied the game. He was able to get a ground-ball that Baty threw to second to pick up the second out on a heads up play. Brazoban was able to keep the game tied after getting a ground-out to Brujan to end the inning.

Brazoban picked up his third win of the season.

RHP Craig Kimbrel came on in the bottom of the 12th and gave up a RBI single to Wood and a two-run double, but was able to pick up last three outs.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Tuesday, May 19 at the Nationals at 6:45 p.m.


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