NEW YORK -- Could this, finally, be the start of something for the Mets?
It will take far more than a series win at home for the rest of Major League Baseball to take these Mets seriously, but the first two games of this set have at least offered another new beginning. Carson Benge hit a walk-off single in the 10th inning Wednesday to give the Mets a 3-2 victory, their second win in a row and their third series victory in their last four tries.
With automatic runner A.J. Ewing at second base, leadoff man Luis Torrens struck out to open the 10th. That brought up Benge, who smacked the second pitch he saw back up the middle to plate Ewing.
Things didn’t start nearly that well for the Mets, as the first two batters of the game scored off Christian Scott when Kevin McGonigle walked, Dillon Dingler doubled and Riley Greene followed with a two-run single. But Scott and the Mets’ high-leverage relievers combined for nine scoreless innings after that, and New York tied things on a Bo Bichette RBI single off reliever Kyle Finnegan in the seventh. That set up the walk-off in extras.