Thanks in large part to a four-run fifth inning, the Mets opened their three-games series against the Nationals win an 8-7 win, bouncing back from back-to-back losses on Saturday and Sunday in the process. Neither team played its sharpest game of baseball in this one.
Harrison Bader opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the top of the second. He played a part in allowing the Nationals’ first run of the night in the bottom of the inning when he dropped a fly ball that he should have caught on the warning track to put the leadoff batter on second base.