14 Innings
The New York Mets tied a major league record for strikeouts in a game by a pitching staff, and still managed to lose to the Atlanta Braves in 14-bizarre innings at Citi Field.
It was a game where Jacob deGrom dominated Atlanta, holding the Braves to just a run on four hits, while striking out 13 over seven superb innings of work. deGrom even provided the Mets only run of the game with a solo shot in the bottom of the sixth.
But as has become commonplace for the Mets when deGrom toes the rubber, he didn't get a win, nor factor into the decision.
Instead, the game became a battle of attritions as both bullpens traded zeros.
After Seth Lugo gave the Mets two shutout innings of relief, Edwin Diaz had his best moment as a Met, striking out both Ronald Acuna Jr. and Ozzie Albies swinging with the go-ahead run 90-feet away at third base.
Even the rare lift by Diaz wasn't enough to keep the Mets momentum moving. The Mets loaded the bases in the bottom of the 10th against ex-Met Anthony Swarzak, but the veteran righty fooled Amed Rosario on a slider down low that would have been ball 3. Instead Rosario swung through it for the strikeout, and with it went the Mets best chance to win this game.
After both teams went back and forth on holding one another scoreless, the Braves finally struck gold in the 14th inning thanks in big part o deliver Jeurys Familia imploding once again.
He walked Tyler Flowers on five pitches to start the inning. Next Familia left a meatball over that plate to ex-Met Adeiny Hechavarria cracked into the right-center field gap that nearly won the game had the ball not gotten stuck in the padding forcing a ground rule double. Two batters later, Billy Hamilton delivered his signature moment in a Braves uniform, scooting a ball past a diving Joe Panik with the infield drawn in for the game winning single.
The Mets went quietly in the bottom of the 14th as Mark Melancon made quick work of New York's bottom of the order.
The loss drops the Mets to two games out of the wild card, and 10 games behind the Braves in the NL East.
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