The Nationals overcame the largest ninth-inning deficit in team history, scoring seven runs to walk off the Mets with an 11-10 victory Tuesday night.
The Nats' prospects looked bleak after giving up five runs in the top of the ninth, leaving themselves with a 10-4 deficit to overcome in the bottom of the ninth.
Washington still trailed 10-6 when Juan Soto singled to load the bases with one out. Mets skipper Mickey Callaway elected to go with the favorable righty-righty matchup, calling for Edwin Diaz from the pen to face pinch-hitter Ryan Zimmerman.
Zimmerman stroked an 0-1 fastball to right for a two-RBI, bases-loaded double, pulling the Nats within two and officially putting the Mets on watch.
Representing the game-winning run, Kurt Suzuki stepped to the plate and battled Diaz to a full count, before belting the eighth pitch – a 99-mph fastball – into the left field seats to take the Mets' breath away, with an 11-10 Nats walk-off victory.
The @Nationals gave up 5 runs in the top of the 9th, but then scored 7 in the bottom to beat the Mets, 11-10.They are the 1st team to allow 5+ runs in the top of the 9th only to score even more runs in the bottom half to walk off since the Red Sox on 6/18/1961 vs. Washington.
— Stats By STATS (@StatsBySTATS) September 4, 2019Per @vincentkjohnson : @MLB Teams leading by 6 or more runs entering the bottom of the 9th this season were 274-0 before the @Mets implosion vs the Nationals. #Mets
— Linda Cohn (@lindacohn) September 4, 2019This will be one of the more memorable calls you'll ever hear from Nationals radio announcer Charlie Slowes: "And if you walked out of this ballpark when the Mets scored five runs in the top of the ninth inning, YOU BLEW IT!"
Thank you, MASN, for this quad cam. So many emotions! pic.twitter.com/nswjcTLlHA— Zachary Silver (@zachsilver) September 4, 2019
I love my team.
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