Mets' wacky 13-inning odyssey ends in heartbreaking loss to Dodgers
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It was cold. It was dark. It was depressing.
It felt just like October.
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Facing the Dodgers for the first time since falling in last year's NLCS, the Mets made a dramatic ninth-inning comeback, then squandered multiple walk-off opportunities before suffering a deflating 13-inning, rain-interrupted return bout against the defending champs, 7-5, Friday night at Citi Field.
The Mets (30-21), who have lost six of their past eight games, had recorded only three hits entering the ninth, and trailed by three, when Jeff McNeil inspired hope, hitting a two-run triple.
3 New York Mets pitcher Max Kranick (32) reacts in the third inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 23, 2025.
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Tyrone Taylor followed with a game-tying single off Dodgers closer Tanner Scott, but Luisangel Acuna struck out with the winning run on third, sending the game to extras.
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Juan Soto went 0-for-5 — and heard a smattering of boos, as his average dipped to .236 — and failed to capitalize on a walk-off opportunity in the 10th, before Pete Alonso — who failed to homer for the 15th straight game, matching the longest drought of his career — ended the inning with a deep fly to center.
Acuna opened his 11th-inning at-bat with three balls, and the bases loaded, but extended the game with a groundout. Luis Torrens, with runners at the corners, hit into an inning-ending double play in the 12th.
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3 Los Angeles Dodgers' Teoscar Hernández, right, reacts after scoring on a single hit by Andy Pages with Michael Conforto, left, during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Friday, May 23, 2025, in New York.
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3 Brett Baty homered in the Mets' loss.
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Following two scoreless innings by Reed Garrett, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza turned to Huascar Brazoban, who opened the 13th by allowing a run-scoring double to Teoscar Hernandez, then a sacrifice fly to Andy Pages.
Francisco Alvarez continued his struggles, making his fifth, and final out, at 12:56 a.m.
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