The Mets battled back to tie game in the ninth inning, then took a three-run 12th-inning lead with Kevin Pillar‘s towering home run.
Here are the takeaways …
1. Silent all afternoon, the Mets’ offense awoke in the ninth inning of Wednesday’s game, which they entered trailing 1-0.
After Pete Alonso was hit a by a pitch to start the inning, Michael Conforto singled and J.D. Davis brought Alonso home from third on a sac-fly, tying the game. The one run was all New York could produce, though.
2. With the game tied at one, Edwin Diaz came in for the bottom of the ninth and got three outs on seven pitches. sending the game to extras. After the Mets failed to score in the top of the 10th, Diaz again threw a scoreless inning, working around a one-out, runner-on-third situation.
3. In the 11th, the Mets grabbed their first lead of the game, when Conforto doubled home Jeff McNeil. After the Giants tied it with no outs, Jeurys Familia buckled down and got three of the next four batters, sending it to the 12th, where Pillar came up with two on and hit a no-doubter three-run homer to make it 5-2. Later in the inning, Chance Sisco hit an RBI double on the first pitch he saw as a Met, making it 6-2.
Pillar had just missed a home run — or at least a big hit — in the 10th, when LaMonte Wade Jr. robbed him with a great catch.
4. Jake Reed, the sixth pitcher of the day for the Mets, finally closed out the Giants in the 12th, clinching their first win in six tries.
5. Before the mini ninth inning rally, the Mets had managed just three hits and two at-bats with RISP, both of which they failed to convert on.
The offensive futility through eight innings came despite Giants starter Anthony DeSclafani leaving the game after just 1.1 IP with what the team called right ankle discomfort, which forced an unplanned bullpen day for San Francisco. In all, the Giants used nine pitchers.
6. After three shaky starts entering Wednesday, Tylor Megill bounced back with a great start against the best team in the league. His only trouble come in a three-hit, one-run third inning.
Overall, Megill tossed six innings of one-run, five-hit ball. The rookie has a 3.21 ERA in 11 starts.
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The Mets will begin a new four-game road series with the Dodgers, with the first game on Thursday at 10:10 p.m. on SNY.