Francisco Lindor hit 1. Walking Homer for Mets, 250. Home career

Francisco Lindor knew. He didn’t have to watch.

Included the inner cutter from Ryan Fernandez Leading the ninth inning and sending a ball that flew into the second deck of Cita Field Field to the right field, 401 feet away.

“I hit him with everything I had,” he said. “If that didn’t go, I had to run out of luck.”

Lindor’s domestic race, 250 of her main league career, abolished New York Mets through St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 on Friday night and sent a smoke that rose from a homemade apple in the central field.

He started watching the ball move toward the seats, then turned and decided not to watch the rest of his parabolic trip.

“I kept my face in excavation with the guys,” Lindor said. “I don’t even know where the ball landed. I knew it would be a home race.”

New York prevailed a 2-0 deficit in the fifth and 3-2 in sixth and then led 4-3 Luis Torrens‘RBI double in the eighth. Mets blew that advantage when Huascar Brazoban allowed Brendan Donovan Home running starting the top of the ninth, driving with a network of misdemeanor pillar to the right.

Brazobán broke out Jordan Walker,, Thomas Saggese and Pedro pages To raise 31-year-old Lindor, a central revival of METS who saw them reaching last year’s NL Championship series.

Lindor took a cutter who bounced a quick strike for strike, and then on her first Homer with Mets, the third of her main league career, she feasted on the field 1-1 for her first Homer, and the first since 2018 with Cleveland.

“That’s why he’s an elite player and a special player, because the moment for him is never too big,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “He knows what is about and lives for those moments and has passed again today. A special player, a special person.”

Lindor became 254. A player with 250 homes, and only the fifth who hit that amount primarily as a short rate. He was the first to get traced with a walk.

“There was a lot of defined, not just moments like this,” Mendoza said. “As soon as he comes to the player, he affects people in a positive way, only his presence, his interactions, the way he pushes people, the way he encourages people – and not just players, but coaches, auxiliary staff, all in this building. His presence, you could feel it every time he is around.”

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New York built an incredible top of the order, signing the attacker Juan Soto to a record $ 765 million, a 15-year contract and then keep the first bases Pete Alonso with a two -year contract of $ 54 million. Mets leads NL East AR 13-7 and are 7-1 on Cita Field.

“It’s so hard for one or two three years as you’ll see anywhere in the league,” the cardinals started the launch Miles Mikolas He said after allowing the single RBI in the fifth place Soto, who was in a 3-for-31 diamond.

He gathered from Cleveland in January 2021 in the first major METS move after Steve Cohen bought a team, Lindor helped build a winning culture in a team that has not won World Series since 1986.

“Obviously there is a lot of leadership in it and it really takes over that role,” Mets Pitcher David Peterson said. “It doesn’t hurt to be the best short table in the game.”

The four-time All-Star, Lindor hit .273 with 33 Homer and 91 RBI last year, favored fans who pop out singing on Cita Field since he adopted “My Girl” Temptations as his last May walk song.

Lindor ended the second METS victory this season, sacrificed fly against Toronto 5 April.

“I’m not a big fan of teammates who just talk about talking and they don’t do what they should do,” he said. “So, I’m taking it very personally. I get it very much – too hard. If I talk, I mean. I just won’t talk just about it.”

Asked what went through his mind as he circled the bases, Lindor recalled, looking forward on Saturday and the forecast of balzal conditions.

“We won. We have to go home,” he said. “I’m over with this cold weather.”

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