The Washington Nationals entered the seventh inning Thursday afternoon trailing by three against the New York Mets, rallied as Luis Garcia scored on a wild pitch and celebrated when Andrew Stevenson drove in two more to knot the score.
None of it mattered.
The New York fans went home happy when two-time Home Run Derby champion Pete Alonso sent a home run to left field to end the game — the second of two between the teams on Thursday — in walkoff fashion.
“He’s a big guy, he swings hard,” Nationals reliever Kyle Finnegan, who gave up the walkoff blast, said of Alonso.