Francisco Lindors big night helps Mets nip Brewers in 10 innings
Games are only truly meaningless if the teams playing acknowledge they are meaningless.To see the roar and chest pounding from Francisco Lindor, and to see the joy from Jefry Yan, who somehow ended up on all fours on the grass, where he slapped the field in celebration, reiterated that the Mets front office admitted defeat on the season at the trade deadline but the clubhouse did not.Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.
Lindor helped save a feel-good, if not exactly consequential, game with one of the prettier plays a defender can make in a 3-2, 10-inning walk-off victory over the majors-best Brewers at Citi Field in front of 28,942 who were not thinking about draft positioning.The Mets sealed the game in the 10th when Christopher Morel did well to make contact with the bases loaded and third baseman David Hamilton threw wild to home plate, enabling Lindor — who else? — to score the game-winner.But the best drama occurred an inning earlier.Austin Warren — pitching in place of fill-in closer Kodai Senga, who had thrown Saturday and Sunday — blew a one-run lead in the ninth after allowing a game-tying RBI double to Christian Yelich.
Yan entered a second-and-third-with-one-out jam, struck out Garrett Mitchell and walked Joey Ortiz.With the bases loaded, two outs and the game in the balance, Hamilton volleyed what sure looked like a go-ahead hit that would find grass in left field.But Lindor — who has struggled defensively — covered plenty of ground, left his feet and went full extension on a dive to catch a ball and save a game.
He instantly rose and screamed toward the crowd, and Yan also was predictably demonstrative for a Mets team (60-72) for which much can be said, but it cannot be said that they have quit.For the first eight innings, the Mets received their only scoring from solo shots by Lindor and a red-hot Luis Robert Jr., and saw promising signs...