Mets 10-run – After trading leads for 11 innings with the Washington Nationals, the New York Mets erupted for 10 runs in the 12th on Monday night, winning 16-7 in a game that lasted 4 hours, 8 minutes.
WASHINGTON — The Mets didn’t just win on Monday night. They unraveled the Nationals in the 12th inning so thoroughly that, by the time the final out fell, it was hard for anyone to remember the exact order of how it happened.
Brett Baty, an infield conversation away from the Mets’ dugout rhythm, laughed when asked a pointed question about the biggest moment. “It was a really competitive ballgame the whole way through, and then we kind of broke it open there in the 12th,” he said. “The 12th, right?”
After trading leads with Washington for 11 innings, New York scored 10 times in the 12th to secure a 16-7 victory. The surge was the most runs by a team in an extra inning since the Texas Rangers scored 12 in the 15th in a 16-4 win over the Oakland Athletics on July 3, 1983.
The inning began with a sacrifice bunt that moved the automatic runner to third.. It would have been a quiet start. too. if not for one crucial thing: it was the only batter Washington reliever Paxton Schultz retired.. Carson Benge. who has the go-ahead swing in three extra-inning wins in the last six days. hit a comebacker that glanced off Schultz’s glove for an RBI infield single.
A single by Bo Bichette and an intentional walk to Juan Soto loaded the bases. Vidal Bruján then popped up a safety squeeze, but the bunt landed in front of a diving Schultz for another infield hit, stretching the lead to 8-6.
Baty added a two-run single. Marcus Semien brought in another run with a single. Then Washington made a move that changed the visual rhythm on the mound: Jorbit Vivas was moved from third base to the mound to pitch.
Umpires took time to determine whether the move was legal — it was — and the delay didn’t slow the Mets. A.J. Ewing added an RBI single, and three batters later Benge came up again and doubled home two runs. Bichette followed with a two-run double to make it 16-6.
Even when the game’s volume was rising, one detail stuck out for Bichette. He had gone without an extra-base hit since April 28. He still found power in this one, hitting a solo homer in the seventh and then a double in the 12th.
By the end, the Mets weren’t just building a highlight reel — they were stacking results. They have won six of seven, are 11-5 in May, and improved to 6-4 in extra-inning games, having played more than any other team this season.
The length of the contest carried into the smallest questions afterward. Asked about throwing out a runner at home from first base, Baty struggled to anchor it because the play in question happened in the 10th, an inning before he moved from third to first.
That 10th mattered in a different way: it was Mark Vientos who threw home for a force play with the bases loaded to keep the game tied. Then, when both teams exchanged runs in the 11th, the game remained locked in place — until the Mets finally turned that long back-and-forth into a runaway.
Washington, meanwhile, left 19 runners on base — the most in the majors this year — and never found a way to bring the game back once New York started scoring in bunches. When it ended, the scoreboard read 16-7, and the clock read 4 hours, 8 minutes.
“Really long game, but we battled,” Baty said.
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