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Mets blow late lead, but rally to beat Phillies on Brandon Nimmo's walk-off single

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Mets blow late lead, but rally to beat Phillies on Brandon Nimmo's walk-off single

The Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 on Tuesday night on Brandon Nimmo's walk-off single.

New York has now won nine straight games against the Phillies at Citi Field, dating back to last September.

Here are some takeaways…

– Sean Manaea has been up and down since returning from the IL in mid-July, but he fared a bit better in this one. The lefty allowed just one baserunner and struck out four over the first two innings. He worked around an Edmundo Sosa leadoff double in the third, thanks to another strikeout and a pair of groundouts. 

Manaea danced past two singles in the fourth with some help from two more punchouts and a caught stealing, but as has been the case in his recent outings, he was unable to get through the fifth. He was pulled after allowing a two-out single by Trea Turner put runners on the corners. 

Gregory Soto entered, and after issuing a walk to Kyle Schwarber to load the bases, he allowed Bryce Harper to put the Phillies in front with a two-run single the other way. Manaea's book closed with two runs allowed on six hits while tying his season-high with eight strikeouts in just 4.2 innings of work. 

The 33-year-old's ERA is now up to 5.01, and he is yet to complete six innings over nine outings. 

– The Mets wasted a couple of early opportunities against Jesus Luzardo, but they were finally able to break through and answered right back in the fifth. They chased the southpaw after the first four batters of the inning reached base safely, including a Juan Soto RBI single.

Luzardo was ejected by home plate umpire Willie Traynor as he left the mound. 

Orion Kerkering entered and was greeted rudely as Pete Alonso laced a go-ahead two-run double into the left-center gap, the scorching hot Mark Vientos lined an RBI single the other way, and Brandon Nimmo lifted a sacrifice fly to cap off a five-run inning. 

Kerkering entered the night with a 5.59 ERA in 10 career appearances against the Mets. 

– Huascar Brazoban allowed Philly to creep back in but stranded a pair in the sixth. Tyler Rogers followed that with a perfect seventh, but Ryan Helsley's struggles continued in the eighth as he allowed a long game-tying two-run blast to former Met Harrison Bader. 

Helsley has now allowed 10 earned runs in his 11 appearances since joining the Mets. 

– Edwin Diaz cleaned up Helsley's mess in the eighth and then worked through a scoreless ninth before the Mets pieced together a rally against Phillies trade deadline addition Jhoan Duran with three-straight singles – bullets from Starling Marte and Alonso and a flare to shallow left by Brett Baty – before Nimmo lined a single the other way to walk it off. 

Game MVP: Brandon Nimmo

Nimmo provided the late-inning heroics in the victory, picking up his fifth career walk-off RBI. Honorable mention to Alonso, who went 4-for-5 with two RBI

Highlights

What's next

Nolan McLean (2-0, 1.46 ERA) makes his third career start against former Met Taijuan Walker (4-6, 3.44 ERA) in the final match of this three-game set on Wednesday at 7:10 p.m.



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