The Mets loaded the bases in the bottom half against Jimmy Cordero and Ron Marinaccio hit Nimmo with a pitch. “So it kind of became a situation of I didn’t really practice stepping off and throwing home.” “I saw him jumping around over there and didn’t know to step off or not and then he just kind of took off,' Raley said. Raley faulted himself for not pitching out of the stretch. “I just couldn't believe I did that in the big leagues.” The third baseman didn't acknowledge me,” Kiner-Falefa said after the Yankees' first straight steal of home since Jacoby Ellsbury on April 22, 2016. IKF stole second, took third when Francisco Álvarez’s throw skipped into center for an error and stole home on the next pitch, moving well down the line when Brooks Raley went from the windup rather than the stretch, then sprinting. Second baseman Jeff McNeil allowed Josh Donaldson to score the go-ahead run in the seventh when he bounced a throw to first that would have been way late anyway trying for a double play on Isiah Kiner-Falefa's grounder. Tommy Pham's RBI double in the fifth and Jake Bauers' run-scoring single in the sixth left the score 1-1. “You’d like to see them not happen but I think sometimes guys are trying so hard to find a way to contribute that sometimes mistakes are made.”īefore a sellout crowd of 44,121 on a night when the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole and the Mets’ Justin Verlander combined to allow two runs in 12 innings with 14 strikeouts and no walks, the game was decided against the bullpens. “Those were things we were able to overcome,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said. With a record $355 million payroll, the Mets (31-36) won for just the second time in 11 games. And so everything is better when you win.” “But when you lose, it’s kind of not really thought of that way. “When you win, you can look back of things and say, OK, we'll learn from ’em,” Nimmo said. Then Nimmo hit a game-ending double off the wall in right-center in the 10th inning, giving the Mets a 4-3 victory on Wednesday night for a two-game Subway Series split. And that was just one of a series of blunders by the Mets, who made two errors as the Yankees scored twice without a hit, allowed a runner to steal home and got called for just the second violation of this year's new shift restriction. NEW YORK - Brandon Nimmo flashed a smile of relief as much as happiness.Ī day after misplaying a catchable fly into a double during a one-run loss to the Yankees, Nimmo ended a rally when he was thrown out at second base while taking a wide turn.

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