A game pitting Chris Bassitt — the Mets’ leader in innings pitched — against Sandy Alcantara, the National League Cy Young frontrunner, featured seven runs in the first two innings.
Both pitchers recovered to keep the game from getting out of hand, but a night that began on a strange foot ended on an even stranger one when Eduardo Escobar’s infield single did not get overturned on replay, leading to Brandon Nimmo’s go-ahead two run home run. That secured a 6-4 win for the Mets in Miami and pushed the Marlins even deeper into seller territory ahead of baseball’s busiest day.
The home run for Nimmo is yet another feather in his cap. Putting together the best season of his career, and one of the better seasons of any NL outfielder, his left-on-left homer came exactly when his team needed it. That’s been Nimmo’s whole shtick this season, whether it’s an eye-popping defensive play or a clutch hit in the game’s waning hours.
