Chisholm's homer in 8th lifts Marlins over Mets 3-2

MIAMI (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the eighth inning and the Miami Marlins beat the New York Mets 3-2 Thursday night.

Javier Báez homered and doubled for the Mets, who began the day four games behind NL East leader Atlanta and 4 ½ from the second wild card.

“You just have to come back the next day and try again,” Báez said. “That’s why you go by day by day, pitch by pitch. It’s all you can control. We’ll see what happens this next week.”

Chisholm drove a 97 mph fastball from Jeurys Familia (9-4) into the upper deck seats for his 15th homer. Chisholm also had an RBI grounder in the sixth.

“I’ve faced Familia before, I know he throws hard,” Chisholm said. “I was just looking for a pitch up. He got it up and I got all of it.”

The blast was measured at 402 feet, a distance Chisholm and Miami manager Don Mattingly questioned.

“That was a beautiful swing and I’m not sure I haven’t seen a ball go further than that here in this building,” Mattingly said.

With the score 2-all, New York wasted Pete Alonso’s leadoff triple against reliever Anthony Bender in the eighth. Bender retired Báez and J.D. Davis on groundouts with the infield drawn in.

Michael Conforto was intentionally walked before Richard Bleier (3-2) relieved and retired pinch-hitter Jeff McNeil on a grounder.

“You feel pretty good with Báez coming in to hit there and the way he’s swinging the bat,” manager Luis Rojas said. “It didn’t happen. We expect the guys to be better as we move forward from this game.”

Dylan Floro pitched a perfect ninth for his ninth save.

The Marlins tied it at 2 in the seventh around three infield hits and a throwing error by reliever Brad Hand.

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