PHILADELPHIA -- These Mets are built for power. For better or worse, this is nothing new. In each of the past two seasons, few teams in baseball have relied more on the home run to generate their runs.
But for all of that pop, the Mets dropped a 5-4 decision to the Phillies in the 12th inning on an infield single by Peter Bourjos.
Freddy Gavis hit a one-out double off reliever Hansel Robles and after David Lough was intentionally walked, the runners advanced on a wild pitch. Robles retired Emmanuel Burriss on a flyout to shallow center and nearly got out of the inning when Bourjos hit a foul pop that third baseman David Wright didn’t reach.