For six innings, it looked like the Mets were cruising towards a victory. But baseball is a nine inning game, and the Marlins came back and handed the Mets another demoralizing defeat, as New York fell 3-2 at loanDepot Park.
For the first two-thirds of this game, Javier Báez and Marcus Stroman were the story. At the plate, Báez hit a ground rule double in the first, got to third on a wild pitch, and scored on another wild pitch as Michael Conforto walked. In the third, he hit a titanic blast to dead center to give the Mets a two-run lead.