Mets melt down in 10th
Six-run inning carries Bochy to his 1,000th win as Giants’ manager
Bruce Bochy joined John Mcgraw as the only Giants managers to win 1,000 regular-season games when San Francisco beat the New York Mets 9-3 Tuesday night behind Stephen Vogt’s tiebreaking, two-run double in the 10th inning.
On a night that began as a rematch between the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner and Noah Syndergaard of their duel in the 2016 NL wild-card game, New York rallied from a 2-0 deficit to take a sixthinning lead only for its bullpen to falter again.
Bochy announced during spring training he is retiring after this season, his 13th during a run with the Giants that has included three World Series titles. He has 1,003 losses in San Francisco and is 1,951-1,978 during a 25-year career as a major league manager that started with a dozen years in San Diego.
Appearing for the fifth time in an eight-day span, Robert Gsellman (1-1) gave up a single to pinch-hitter Tyler Austin leading off the 10th, walked Brandon Belt and bounced a wild pitch. Vogt lined a changeup over leaping Michael Conforto and off the right-field fence.
Steven Duggar got an RBI double on a comebacker that Gsellman tried to grab with his glove behind his back and rebounded toward shortstop, Pablo Sandoval added a two-run double off Hector Santiago and Mike Yastrzemski added an RBI single. Mark Melancon (2-0) pitched a perfect ninth. Bumgarner failed to hold a 2-0, sixth-inning lead when Wilson Ramos hit a solo homer and rookie Pete Alonso hit a two-run drive. Alonso’s 20 home runs are second among Mets rookies behind Darryl Strawberry’s 26 in 1983, when he debuted on May 6.
Mets reliever Seth Lugo allowed Belt’s tying double in the seventh after a visibly angry Syndergaard was removed.
Bumgarner had given up three earned runs in 51 career innings at Citi Field, including the wildcard game, before allowing three in the sixth. He remained 6-0 in his regular-season career against the Mets, the only NL team not to defeat him.
Syndergaard made his 100th appearance and fell behind in the fourth, hurt by a pair of walks. Kevin Pillar hit an RBI single past shortstop on a belt-high sinker and Duggar dumped a runscoring single in front of Conforto.
Syndergaard was removed after 62/3 innings and 103 pitches.