NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan India hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning and the Reds beat the New York Mets 5-3 on Friday night, another important victory in the tight National League wild-card race.
The Reds and Arizona Diamondbacks entered Friday two-thousandths of a percentage point behind the San Francisco Giants for the third wild card.
Grant Hartwig (4-2) plunked Luke Maile leading off the seventh. India then homered on a 2-2 pitch.
Pete Alonso had tied it for New York in the sixth with a 425-foot shot to left against Hunter Greene.
Alexis Díaz inherited a two-out, one-on jam and earned his 37th save — tied with Camilo Duval for the most in the NL — by retiring all five batters he faced.
Fan catches 2 foul balls in one inning
Patrick Wedderburn wrote his name into the margins of baseball history when he caught two foul balls in a span of three pitches in Section 321 behind home plate at Citi Field during the game.
The 23-year-old from Farmingville, New York, said he would give them both to his mom, Christa, who was with him at the park as part of her birthday celebration.
Both foul balls came off the bat of the Reds’ TJ Friedl in the eighth inning.