The Mets, namely Francisco Lindor, remembered that not scoring runs is not indicative to winning baseball games, and decided to get on the board immediately. Jonathan Villar smoked a ball to left field to lead off the game off of Joe Ross, and Francisco Lindor — who evidently took the Nationals twitter account personally — went deep on a 2-0 count to end the Mets 21 inning scoreless streak in the blink of an eye.
David Peterson picked up where his left start left off in the bottom of the first, working around a Trea Turner single to work a scoreless inning.