Maybe there’s hope for the Mets’ offense after all. For once, they picked up their pitchers. For once, they produced extra-inning magic.
And after Wilmer Flores’s game-winning fielder’s choice in a 3-2, 11-inning win Saturday night over the Padres, the Mets can win a series for the first time since June 22-24 with a victory on Sunday.
When Jacob deGrom was touched up for a game-tying homer in the seventh, the Mets immediately answered with Kelly Johnson’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the inning.