Surging Mets erupt for 10 runs in 12th for wild win over Nationals
WASHINGTON — The opponents on this road trip aren’t particularly daunting, giving the Mets a wide opening to continue their recent surge.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.
Monday night they avoided a letdown following the high emotion of winning the Subway Series, attacking throughout against the Nationals.The Mets won 16-7 in 12 innings for a sixth victory in seven games.The Mets scored 10 runs during the final inning, piling on against Jorbit Vivas, a position player, after they had built a comfortable cushion.Carson Benge’s RBI single in the 12th inning brought in the go-ahead run after Hayden Senger’s sacrifice bunt had advanced the automatic runner.
Vidal Brujan’s suicide squeeze brought in Benge for an insurance run.Brett Baty delivered the dagger with a two-run single.The Mets kept going.
Marcus Semien, A.J.Ewing, Benge and Bo Bichette all had run-scoring hits to complete the onslaught in the inning.Semien’s sacrifice fly in the 11th brought in the automatic runner Brujan to give the Mets a 6-5 lead.
Brujan, who had entered the game as a pinch-runner, had advanced to third on Baty’s fly out to begin the inning.The Nationals reclaimed the run in the bottom of the frame on Joey Weimer’s infield single against Huascar Brazobán, on which Brujan at third base attempted a barehanded play and missed.Brazobán escaped a bases-loaded jam in the 10th inning, getting Nasim Nunez to ground into a fielder’s choice (with the out at the plate) before striking out CJ Abrams.Homers by Baty and Bichette were the hits that resonated the loudest, but Taylor, Juan Soto, Benge and Luis Torrens were all instrumental offensively on a night the Mets rallied from a 3-2 deficit in the middle innings.The Mets carried a 5-3 lead into the seventh inning, but couldn’t hold it.After Brooks Raley surrendered a run in the seventh, Tobias Myers allowed an RBI double ...