The last pitch Bowden Francis threw, Francisco Lindor turned around that fastball — turned around the game, too, and maybe the Mets playoff hopes — and launched it 398 feet.
The Mets had picked a hell of a time to bury their bats in the weeds. This side of the border, that side of the border: didn’t matter. The Mets had 13 hits over the course of 28 innings. They had one extra-base hit in that span.A 28-year-old kid making his 11th career start named Bowden Francis had mowed them down like blades of grass under a Toro. The Mets needed this game, that was non-negotiable, but they couldn’t touch Francis. They’d gone down on five pitches in the eighth.
It was waist level. The last pitch Francis threw, Lindor turned around that fastball — turned around the game, too, and maybe the Mets playoff hopes — and launched it 398 feet. It tied the game at 1. It transformed the Mets dugout into a first-grade gym class, two dozen players jumping, leaping over the railing, flailing the air.Feel free to start your Giants panic — it was that badWhat happened next was almost inevitable. The Mets loaded the bases.
It also provided two immediate and altogether compelling pieces of testimony. For one: at some point soon, preferably over the winter, Lindor should named be the Mets captain. On that ballot he will run unopposed.
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