It’s hard to call a game in April an instant classic. But this Friday night in front of a packed Citi Field crowd was an instant classic. The Mets and Cardinals battled all night in a ping-pong affair with the Mets emerging on top 5-4 thanks to a walk-off home run by Francisco Lindor in the bottom of the ninth.
The Cardinals singled David Peterson to death to scratch out the game’s first run in the second. With one out, Brendan Donovan singled. Peterson bounced back to get Jordan Walker to strike out, but then Thomas Saggese and Pedro Pagés had back-to-back base hits to draw first blood.