New York Mets’ reliever Jake Diekman gave up a go-ahead, two-run home run in the ninth inning of Sunday’s series finale with the Arizona Diamondbacks in Citi Field, in what was in the end NY’s, “... major league-worst sixth defeat after holding a lead after eight innings,” and in a see-saw battle against the Washington Nationals in the nation’s capital last night they came close to suffering their seventh.
Diekman came on and saved the visitors this time, after Adam Ottavino gave up a leadoff walk to Luis García, Jr.