LOS ANGELES — Crushed and mystified.
That is how the Mets left Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night after an Edwin Diaz meltdown in the ninth inning allowed the Dodgers to come away with a stunning 9-8 victory, a game the Mets led 8-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh.
Certainly, the Mets took notice in their 9-5 loss to the Dodgers on Monday night just how often these Dodgers seemed to guess right at the plate.
Amazin’. That really got the Mets attention.
On Tuesday night it was a different story as the Mets came away with a 7-3 win, but on Wednesday night the Mets watched the Dodgers homer three times in the eighth and ninth innings and score four runs off Diaz in the ninth to come away with the victory.