Chaos in Washington: The Mets make history with a 10-run 12th inning!
The Nationals Park turned into a full-blown offensive freak show, the kind fans go years without seeing. After ten tense innings and a deadlocked 5-5 score, the New York Mets blew the game wide open in the 12th. They piled on 10 runs to win 16-7. It was historic: the Mets became the first team since the 1983 Rangers to score at least 10 runs in a single extra inning, matching the fourth-biggest outburst in MLB history.
Carson Benge: the late-inning spark
As he has so often lately, rookie Carson Benge lit the fuse. After laying down a sacrifice bunt to move the automatic runner, Benge came up with a timely single to break the tie. It was the third time in six games that the youngster has driven in the go-ahead run in extra innings, after back-to-back walk-off wins for New York against the Tigers and the Yankees. “If you put the ball in play, good things can happen,” Benge said after his latest big moment.
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The Mets offense turns the game into a rout
Once the door was open, the rest of the lineup came charging through. Bo Bichette, Juan Soto, Vidal Brujan, Brett Baty and Marcus Semien all joined the hit parade, forcing Washington manager to send position player Jorbit Vivas to the mound out of arms in the bullpen. Against that makeshift target, the Mets kept pouring it on with back-to-back two-run doubles from Benge and Bichette. In all, the 12th inning saw 13 Mets batters come to the plate and nine New York hits.
Reward for the bullpen
The wild offensive explosion left one man especially happy in the visitors’ dugout: reliever Huascar Brazoban. After shutting out the Nationals in the 10th and 11th to keep his side alive, he could sit back and watch his teammates cross the plate one after another. Manager Carlos Mendoza could hardly believe the ending himself: “Every day, baseball throws up something new. I’m just glad we’re on the right side of history this time.”
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