SAN DIEGO — The Mets necessary 5 outs Sunday to complete what have been a just right few days within the land of best possible climate and achieve within the wild-card standings on two of the 3 groups forward of them.
It was once all going easily till Jose Butto walked Matt McCoy. Moments next, Butto was once staring at Jurickson Profar circle the bases, having flushed the Mets’ supremacy by means of permitting Profar a two-run homer.
The late-inning distress ended with Edwin Diaz strolling off the mound along with his head i’m sick, upcoming Jackson Merrill’s ninth-inning burst rocketed into the correct area seats and gave the Mets a 3-2 walk-off loss to the Padres at Petco Ground.
And so, the Mets needed to accept a fracture within the four-game form in opposition to a govern wild-card contender and neglected a chance to compare a season top by means of transferring seven video games above .500.
The Mets remained 2 ½ video games in the back of Atlanta for the NL’s 3rd wild card. Diaz struck out Jake Cronenworth to start out the 9th ahead of the rookie sensation Merrill pounced on a 98-mph fastball and ended it.
The Mets have Monday to get better ahead of opening a three-game form in Arizona a while next.
The Mets owned the afternoon till Profar smashed his two-run homer in opposition to Butto within the 8th that connect it 2-2. Butto, in his 2nd inning of labor, walked McCoy ahead of Profar strike a 95-mph sinker over the right-field fence to fix it.
Jose Quintana was once at his perfect, and the Mets necessary it.
The left-hander delivered 6 ¹/₃ shutout innings by which he allowed 4 hits and two walks.
Butto retired Luis Arraez with two runners onboard for the second one out within the 7th ahead of Luis Torrens nailed Merrill making an attempt to scouse borrow 2nd to finish the inning.
It was once a much-needed robust efficiency from Quintana, who had scuffled to an 8.27 ERA in his earlier 4 August begins. That integrated permitting seven earned runs over 5 innings in a loss to the Orioles endmost Tuesday.
Quintana allowed a double to Manny Machado well-known off the second one and next didn’t permit every other strike till McCoy’s unmarried within the 6th. Profar had an infield unmarried well-known off the sport in opposition to Quintana, however was once erased on a Xander Bogaerts double play games grounder to finish the inning.
J.D. Martinez’s homer in opposition to Martin Perez with two outs within the fourth accounted for the sport’s first run.
Martinez introduced a cutter at the out of doors edge to right-center, clearing the 396-foot signal for his fifteenth homer of the season. The burst was once Martinez’s 3rd in his endmost seven video games.
Jose Iglesias, Torrens and Harrison Bader all walked to load the bases following Martinez’s homer, finishing Perez’s day trip as Francisco Lindor approached the plate.
Bryan Hoeing entered and struck out Lindor, who had delivered two homers, together with a brilliant slam, the former night time.
Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo each and every delivered a unmarried within the 5th ahead of Hoeing struck out Starling Marte and Martinez in succession to finish the warning.
Mark Vientos’ homer within the 7th widened the Met supremacy to 2-0. The homer was once his twenty first of the season and 5th in August.
Later Profar’s homer connect it within the 8th, Butto struck out Donovan Solano and allowed a unmarried to Bogaerts.
Phil Maton was once summoned to stand Machado with the tying run on first bottom and retired the Padres 3rd baseman.
