WATCH: Edwin Diaz’s crucial play allows Mets to take win from MLB best Dodgers

WATCH: Edwin Diaz’s crucial play allows Mets to take win from MLB best Dodgers

Edwin Diaz

The New York Mets defeated the major league-best Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 on Thursday after Edwin Diaz escaped a jam in the eighth inning by striking out Gavin Lux on a fastball travelling at 102.8 mph. After the Mets were held to one hit in five innings by Clayton Kershaw, making his first start since August 4, Francisco Lindor hit a tying double in the sixth and scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Darin Ruf.

The NL East’s top team, New York, defeated Los Angeles two out of three games for their first series victory over the Dodgers since September 3-5, 2011. LA suffered its first back-to-back defeats since July 25–26. At Citi Field, the Dodgers last lost two straight games on consecutive days on July 25–26, 2015, which was precisely seven years ago. “They got a really good team,” Edwin Diaz said. “We showed them we have a really good team, too. That’s the team we might play in the playoffs.”

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Edwin Diaz walked Freddie Freeman to start the eighth inning

Edwin Diaz
Edwin Diaz

Chris Bassitt (12-7) won for the fifth time in a row, matching his win total from the previous campaign with Oakland. He gave up two runs and six hits in six innings. After the Mets established a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning, he left the game. When Daz struck out Will Smith and walked Freddie Freeman to start the eighth inning, New York had a 5-2 lead. Max Muncy’s flyball down the warning track moved Freeman up to third, and a Justin Turner flyball near the centre field 408-foot sign sent him home.

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“I was a little bit angry because I wasn’t commanding my slider the way I want to,” Diaz said. Following Jeremy Hefner, pitching coachvisit ,’s to the mound, Diaz calmly walked off the mound after escaping by whiffing Lux on the hardest pitch of his career. The Mets closer pitched in the eighth inning for the seventh time in his past 13 games.

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