After the Mets hit four homers on Tuesday against Minnesota and lost, they took a different approach in Wednesday’s win over the Twins.
“Keep on taking, don’t swing,’’ manager Mickey Callaway said after a 9-6 victory at Citi Field.
The manager was joking, but that was basically what his lineup did in a bizarre bottom of the fifth, as the Mets scored six runs and became the first team since the 1994 Yankees to have seven straight batters reach either with a walk or hit by pitch, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
The inning began normally enough, with a groundout by Wilson Ramos followed by a single from Jeff McNeil, the Mets’ first hit of the night.