There were some disappointing plays for the Phillies.
With no outs and the bases loaded in the sixth inning, Jose Iglesias grounded out to Edmundo Sosa, who was in the shadow of second base.
A clean pick-up and throw home could have started a double play, but Sosa booted it and homered with only one out.
With two outs in the first inning, Starling Marte hit a two-run homer.
In the seventh inning, Harrison Bader attempted a double, but was hit by a throw from JT Realmuto.
But shortstop Trea Turner couldn't handle the dart into the dirt, and Bader dove to safety, reversing and scoring on Iglesias' single.
In the eighth inning, it was Tyrone Taylor who hit Carlos Estevez with a come-from-behind hit, and Estevez hit it and tried to scoop it to first base, but missed and the ball remained on the turf.
With two outs in the first inning, Francisco Lindor hit an RBI double.
In a 7-2 victory at Citi Field, the Mets showed superior performance in almost every aspect and their defense shined, pushing them to the brink of winning the National League Championship.
“I thought we did a great job overall defensively,” said Taylor, who had one of his best outfield plays.
With one out in the fourth inning, Alec Bohm hit a one-hop drive over the wall in right-center field.
Taylor initially pursued a possible catch, but decided he had no chance and changed course, predicting where it would fall.
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The ball hit the warning track, then the wall, then into Taylor's hands, then wheeled and threw the ball, but it bounced once before reaching Lindor at second base.
“There was a star[ling Marte] “He was right next to me, telling me I had an opportunity and just trying to get it as soon as possible,” Taylor said.
Lindor waited for the ball to reach him, the throw went over a sliding Boehm, and Lindor caught it with the glove attached to Bohm's helmet for a nifty tag.
“it is [one-out] A double, and who knows what’s going to happen in that inning,” manager Carlos Mendoza said of the frame that Sean Manaea faced minimally. “And then we put him at second base and we got some momentum back. We've got to keep playing like that.”
The Mets made these plays on Tuesday, and the tone was quickly and somewhat tongue-in-cheek set by Mark Vientos.
When the third baseman was promoted through the Mets' system, he heard scouting reports that he was a first-choice hitter with no exact position.
He originally did not impress when he entered the majors and was seen as a DH of the future.
Instead, he's playing like a future All-Star third baseman.
In the second inning, Boehm stole two bases, but hit a hard ground ball down the third base line.
Vientos backhanded far behind the bag and drifted into foul territory.
He made a leaping fadeaway throw to Pete Alonso, who deftly adjusted his feet to catch it.
“It's a pretty tough play,” Vientos admitted. “I give myself credit for it, but I don’t really like to take credit for it, but I think it was a good play, but this is a play that I’m working on, so I’m hopeful that it will be successful. ”
It's a play many didn't expect the young Vientos to be able to make.
“I take pride in my defense. … My work is very focused and attention to detail,” Vientos said. “I definitely want to prove my defense wrong.”
