AROUND THE HORN
Mets: Javier Báez sprinted home from first for the game-ending run on Michael Conforto’s single, earning cheers from a fanbase he insulted days earlier in the Mets’ 6-5 win over the Marlins on Tuesday in New York. In the resumption of a game suspended by rain April 11, the Mets scored five runs in the final inning and won it when Báez scored following a Marlins error. Báez was booed when he entered as a pinch-hitter in the eighth, hours after apologizing for revealing Sunday that a thumbsdown celebration gesture used recently by the team was dig at fans who have been booing the struggling club recently. Fans chanted Báez’s name when he came up in the ninth with two on, two out and the Mets trailing 5-3. He beat out an infield single to make it 5-4, drawing an ovation from the sparse afternoon crowd. Conforto then grounded a single down the third-base line off Dylan Floro (5-5). Báez bolted from first to home when left fielder Jorge Alfaro bobbled the ball. Plate umipre Tim Timmons initally signaled that catcher Alex Jackson had tagged out Báez as he dived across the plate, but then he saw the ball squirt loose and signaled safe instead. The Mets’ rally started with a two-run homer by Brandon Nimmo. Jeurys Familia (8-3) threw a perfect top of the ninth. The resumption of the longest suspended game in baseball history began about an hour after Báez and Lindor held separate press conferences to apologize for the thumbs down gesture they and teammate Kevin Pillar delivered during Sunday’s 9-4 win over the Nationals. Báez said Sunday the gesture was the players’ way of answering fans who had booed the Mets throughout August, during which the team went 8-19 (not counting Tuesday’s game, which officially counts as an April 11 result) to fall out of first place in the NL East. Lindor heard some boos prior to his first plate appearance and went 0-for-3 with a walk and a sacrifice bunt. Báez and Lindor shared a long hug near home plate after Báez scored the winning run.
White Sox: All-star RHP Lance Lynn was placed on the 10-day injured list with right knee inflammation. The IL move is retroactive to Sunday. The 34-year-old Lynn is 10-4 with a 2.59 ERA and 152 strikeouts in his first season with the White Sox, who hold a large lead in the AL Central. He signed a two-year, $38 million extension with the team in July.
Extra innings: SS Xander Bogaerts was pulled from the Red Sox’s road game against the Rays after testing positive for COVID19. Bogaerts was on the field before the start of the bottom of the second when manager Alex Cora motioned for him to come out of the game. Bogaerts is the sixth Red Sox player to test positive for COVID-19 since Friday. The others are Hirokazu Sawamura, Martin Perez, Matt Barnes, Enrique Hernandez and Christian Arroyo . ... The Blue Jays cut struggling 31-year-old left-handed reliever Brad Hand, who went 0-2 with a 7.27 ERA in 11 games with the Blue Jays after being acquired in a trade deadline deal with the Nationals on July 29 . ... Yankees LHP Zack Britton, who’s dealing with a left elbow sprain, was moved to the 60-day IL on Monday, effectively ending his season. The injury was just the latest in a string of ailments that have plagued Britton this season. The 33-year-old Britton went 0-1 with a 5.89 ERA and just one save in 22 relief appearances this season.