Mets beat Nats in 10 innings for fifth straight win

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin Pillar drove in two with a 10th-inning double and the New York Mets recovered after blowing a late lead to beat the Washington Nationals 6-2 Friday night for their fifth straight win.

Pete Alonso singled to score automatic runner Francisco Lindor leading off the 10th, and Pillar's double off Austin Voth (3-1) stretched the lead to 5-2. Jonathan Villar added another RBI single before Jeurys Familia pitched a clean 10th.

The surge bailed out closer Edwin Díaz (5-4), who allowed two runs in the ninth, the first he has allowed since Aug. 6.

“As you can imagine, it’s great. It’s awesome to rip off (five) in a row,” Alonso said.

The Mets are four games behind Cincinnati for the second wild-card spot and four games behind Atlanta for the NL East lead. Their five-game winning streak doesn’t include a win completed Tuesday in the resumption of an April 11 game postponed by rain against Miami.

Juan Soto hit a solo homer to left, his 24th, on Díaz’s first pitch to make it 2-1.

Díaz walked Ryan Zimmerman on four pitches. Andrew Stevenson, who ran for Zimmerman, then scored from first on Riley Adams’ double.

The throw home forced Mets catcher Chance Sisco up the third-base line and into Stevenson’s path. Stevenson’s knee slammed into Sisco, forcing Stevenson into the air and wide of home plate. He jumped back to touch the plate and tie it while Sisco writhed in pain. Sisco was replaced by Patrick Mazeika.

The win helped New York improve its emphatic home-road splits: The Mets are 41-27 this season at Citi Field and 26-40 on the road.

“We just have to win every possible game that we can,” Alonso said. “Regardless of the standings, we can only control what we can control.”

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