Remembering Mets History (2024) Mets Tie Franchise Record with Six Runs in Any Extra Inning of a Game
The Mets sent David Peterson (3-0) up against the Nat's Mackenzie Gore (6-7) in front of 26,719 at Nationals Park in Washington D.C.
straight starts. In his last start before this, six days earlier, he had just given up one run in 4.1 innings of the subway series. Peterson entered the game with a 3.67 ERA.
Thomas singled to right field. Next back-to-back RBI singles from Harold Ramirez & Joey Meneses made it a 2-0 Washington lead.
In the top of the 6th, Harrison Bader led off with a base hit then stole second. With two outs, Mark Vientos singled scoring Bader with the Mets first run. After Pete Alonso flew out, Mackenzie Gore was replaced by pitcher Derek Law.
In the Bottom of the 8th, Dedniel Nunez came on to pitch for the Mets. After getting the first two outs, he walked Jesse Winkler. Joey Meneses hit a shallow fly ball to right field that was misplayed by Tyrone Taylor. The ball fell in front of him & got passed him, officially scored as a double. Jesse Winkler came all the way around to score the tying run. Dedniel Nunez got the third out when he fielded Ildemaro Vargas' attempt to reach on a bunt base hit.
In the 9th, Kyle Finnegan & Jake Diekman got the game to extra innings.Mets Tie Franchise Extra Inning Runs Record: In the top of the 10th, the Nat's Hunter Harvey came on to pitch. Jose Lindor was the inherited runner on second, then Harrison Bader was hit by a pitch to put two on. J.D. Martinez followed with his tenth HR of the year, a three-run shot putting the Mets up 6-3.
After Pete Alonso & Ben Gamel were retired, Tyrone Taylor lined a double to right field.
Hot Hitting Alvarez: Next the hot hitting Francisco Alvarez blasted a shot off the right center field wall just missing a HR.
Alvarez who was hustling right out of the box, reached third base with his first career triple. Tyrone Taylor scored to make it 7-3 Mets.
Alvarez Trivia: For Alvarez it was his 11th RBI in the last eleven games, in that time he is batting .461 with 18 hits & ten extra base hits, raising his season average to .306.
Quotes- Carlos Mendoza: "Thats who he is, man. This is a kid that's always playing really hard with a lot of energy & you saw the emotions there when he got to third base."
Next Jordan Weems came in to pitch & Jose Iglesias greeted him with his first Mets career HR, a two-run shot putting New York ahead 9-3. The baseball player / pop singer Iglesias had recently released his new single "OMG" over the weekend to much fanfare at Citi Field.
Mets Franchise Record: The six runs scored in the inning, tied a franchise record for the most runs scored in a Mets extra inning. The feat was first done in 1979 in a double header win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
In the bottom of the 10th, the Mets bullpen continued to struggle not making this an easy win.
A double by Jesse Winkler made it a 9-4 game. Winker would come over to the Mets at the end of the month & help them in their playoff run.
Tyler Jay got the second out, then then Ildemaro Vargas doubled to bring in Abrams & Winker making it a 9-6 Mets lead.
Mets manager Carlos Mendoza went to the bullpen bringing in Reed Garrett. Garrett couldn't make the last out easy either. Keibert Ruiz singled to center field bringing in Vargas making it 9-7 with the tying run at the plate. Garrett finally got the final out striking out Luis Garcia Jr.
Trivia: In 1979, Forty-five years earlier, the Mets scored six runs in the top of the 11th inning setting a franchise record for most runs in any extra inning. In the bottom of the 11th in that game, the Cubs came back with five runs of their own.
On this night, the Mets matched the extra inning record with six runs in the top of the 10th inning. The Nat's came back here putting up four runs in the bottom of the inning.