The San Francisco Giants Brett Wisely scores and waves in the top of the third inning against the New York Mets on Sun May 26, 2024 at Citi Field in New York (AP News photo)
By Jessica Kwong
NEW YORK — The San Francisco Giants were deprived of a holiday weekend sweep as the New York Mets rallied in the ninth inning for a thrilling 4-3 walk-off win at Citi Field on Sunday afternoon.
New York responded to San Francisco’s dramatic comeback wins in game one and two of the series with the comeback victory of their own in the finale that dealt the Giants their second walk-off loss of the season.
In the ninth, Brandon Nimmo and J.D. Martinez had consecutive hits, and Harrison Bader had a game-tying two-run double. Omar Narváez made a pinch-hit walk-off single and Mets fans in the crowd of 41,016 at the ballpark went wild.
“I felt like we had a good chance to win the game, obviously,” said Giants manager Bob Melvin. “The first game of the series was tough, the last game of the series was tough. In between was good, but it had just felt like a game we were going to win.”
In the second inning, a throwing error by catcher Tomás Nido on the pickoff attempt led Matt Chapman to score and put the Giants up 1-0. Then the Giants challenged a tag play but the call on the field was upheld. Bader singled on a sharp line drive to right field and DJ Stewart scored to tie the game at 1-1
In the third inning, Brett Wisely hit a home run on a line drive to right center field to put the Giants up 2-1.
San Francisco expanded their lead to 3-1 in the sixth inning as Heliot Ramos hit a ground ball into a force out and Wilmer Flores scored.
In the final inning, Bader doubled on a line drive to left field. Against Giants right-handed pitcher Tyler Rogers, Nimmo and Starling Marte scored, tying the game at 3-3. Narváez singled on a line drive to center field and Jeff McNeil scored, and Mets players flooded the field and poured coolers in celebration.
“A great road trip, a lot of good team wins,” said Rogers. “Even when we’re out of it, we still expect to win the games. My effort today kind of put a stink on the road trip, but it was a great road trip for the boys.”
Giants starting pitcher Logan Webb in seven innings allowed three hits and struck out a season-high eight batters.
“Look we got a really good hitting team coming up that you know swung the bats really well against us and they’re probably playing as well as anybody in baseball. And then three days and then an off day which will be needed the way we’ve used our pitching quite a bit,’ said Melvin.
“And then you know we’ve got a Yankee team that’s coming in as well. So we’ve got two really good teams and we’ve been playing well so we should feel good about how we’re playing.” Melvin added.
The Giants return home on Memorial Day and welcome the Philadelphia Phillies for a three-game series. First pitch for game one on Monday is at 2:05 p.m. PT. Starting pitchers for Philadelphia Taijuan Walker (3-0 ERA 5.06) for San Francisco Blake Snell (0-3 ERA 11.40).
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