Francisco Lindor knew it. He didn’t have to look.
I turned on an inner cutter from Ryan Fernandez who led the ninth inning and felt the ball rise in the second deck of Citi Field in the right field, 401 feet distance.
“I made it with everything I had,” he said. “If he didn’t go, I would have had bad luck.”
Lindor’s Home Run, the 250th of his Major League career, lifted the New York Mets on Friday evening with 5-4 over the St. Louis Cardinals and sent smoke on the way of the Thuis Run Apple in midfield.
I stated to see the ball go to the seats, the left and decisive that there was no reason to observe the memory of the parabolic journey.
“I kept my face in the dugout with the boys,” said Lindor. “I don’t even know where the ball landed. I knew it would be a home run.”
Mets’ Francisco Lindor launches Walk-Offers Home Run against the cardinals
New York conquered the shortages of 2-0 in the fifth and 3-2 in the sixth, the names with a 4-3 lead over the RBI-Double of Luis Torrens in the eighth. She blew that advantage when Huascar Brazoban Brendan allowed Donovan Home Run to start the top of the ninth, a ride of the net of the fault post on the right.
Brazobán eliminated Jordan Walker, Thomas Saggese and Pedro pages to bring the 31-Yare-year-old Lindor, a center of the revival of the Mets, that Sawm Reach Reach reached the NL Championship series last year.
Lindor took a cutter who bunced and fastball for a strike, the partyed on the 1-1 throw for his first Walk-Off Homer with the Mets, the third of his Major League career and first since 2018 at Cleveland.
“That’s why he is an elite player and a special player, because the moment is never too big for him,” said Mets -manager Carlos Mendoza. “He knows what’s at stake and he lives for those moments and he came through again today. Special player, special person.”
Lindor became the 254th player with 250 homers and only the fifth who mainly hit that amount like a short stop. He was the first to reach the goal with a walk-off.
“There is a lot that defines him, not just momnts like this,” said Mendoza. “As soon as he comes into the margin, he has influenced people in a positive way, only his complex, his interactions, the way in which he pushes people, the way I found people – and not only players, but coaches, support staff, everyone in this building. His decisive, you Coul cour time he is in the neighborhood.”
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New York built a formidable top of the order, which means that outfielder Juan Soto to a record of $ 765 million, 15-year contract and then the first Honkman Pete Alonso with $ 54 million, two-year-old deal. The Mets lead the NL East AR 13-7 and are 7-1 on Citi Field.
“That is a one-two-hot, while you are going to see just about everywhere in the competition,” said Cardinals who start pitcher Miles Mikolas, after you had allowed a tied RBI single in the fifth in Soto, who had been in a 31-dias.
Very overrun from Cleveland in January 2021 in the first major movement of the Mets After Steve Cohen bought the team, Lindor helped to build a winning culture in a team that has not won the World Series since 1986.
“I clearly have a lot of leadership in him and he takes that role very well,” said Mets Pitcher David Peterson. “It’s no pain if the best short stop in the game.”
Lindor, a four-fold all-star, hit .273 with 33 homers and 91 RBIs last year, fan favorite who sparks Sing-Alongs on Citi Field since accepting the Temptations ‘My Girl’ as his walk-up number last May.
Lindor ended this season the other Walk-off victory with a sacrificial battle against Toronto on April 5.
“I am not a big fan of teammates who just talk about the conversation and they don’t do what they are supposed to do,” he said. “So I assume it very personally. I take it – see it – too difficult. When I talk, I mean it. I’m just not going to talk alone for it.”
Asked what went through his head when I circled the bases, Lindor remembered that he was looking ahead to Saturday and a prediction of sultry circumstances.
“We won. We can go home,” he said. “I’m done with this cold weather.”
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Reporting by the Associated Press.
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