Swinging a high fly ball to left field and deep.

Back goes bench. On to the track at the wall. He jumps. It's gone. Over the top of the great wall of flushing beyond the fiesta deck in left field. A two-run homer for Byron Buxton, his fourth home run of the year. And this is a one-run game. It's the Mets three and the Twins two with two out here in the 6th. Hi, I'm Howie Rose on All-C-Mets Radio. The Mets would lose 5-3 as Nolan McLean, who was perfect through 5, gave up that home run. Another run, and then Devin Williams basically was terrible late. We'll get to that in a minute. Did you hear by any chance the Ron Darling stuff after the Buckson home run? Yeah, so I did mention it. Yeah, it's okay. I mean, that was earlier. That's your stuff. It was, it was six o'clock, I mentioned it. So go ahead and play. I thought it was important. So, Av, so you've got the, he goes up and in on Buxton on the previous pitch. The next pitches the home run. And Ron Darling, later in the inning,

I guess saw the replay of what went down in terms of McLean to Buxton after the up and in pitch.

And it went like this on SNY.

A little thing that happened there before Buxton. Okay. So the pitch prior almost hit Buxton.

A lot of the pitches have been inside the entire game. They were teammates at WBC. McLean said, looked at Buxton, they had met eyes. Said, my bad, you know, my bad, shouldn't do that. And then he went on to say, Buxton's event knew what to do from that point. You know what happens to a hitter when he hears that? 100% the next pitch is not going to be inside. It's going to be away. He's a smart hitter and he took advantage of it. I know what McLean's doing. That's being a good citizen. You don't need to do that out there. Not at the major league level. You know, the amazing thing is if he would have wanted to hate my bad, and then threw another one inside.

Now, that would have been crazy. I said my bad, too, and you ain't hitting it.

I wonder if he'll have caught him leaning in. How did he done that, you know? I don't know, but, you know, Nolan will understand this. He's a great pitcher. You could see it. I mean, he still struck out 10 guys yesterday.

As you said, he was perfect through five,

and we're all thinking the same thing, right?

Yeah.

We're all thinking the same thing.

He's really, struck out 10 guys yesterday as you said he was perfect through five and we're all thinking the same

thing right yeah we're all thinking the same thing he's he's really he's got stuff i don't think i've

ever seen like this yeah i mean he's he's a terrific young player but he'll he'll learn that when

you're on that mound man you're out there and you're out there by yourself in other words it

you cannot give in to those batters. No doubt. So they wind up losing 5'3. Here was Carlos Mendoza really thought even with that home run given up to Buxton, they would find a way to win.

He left out cutter to boxing, but you still feel good about your chances, especially how

Lindor sets the tone there with a 3-1 homer. You feel like you're getting some momentum. Should be noted. They did nothing the rest of the way offensively. It's right. Four-hits, total. To end the game when they were retired in order. Here was McLean, so the one thing they came out of last night was you know third time through the order

all of a sudden they started putting better swings on him uh we've seen this a couple times now any reason

for that these guys are getting paid to play baseball for a living too so i mean at the end of the day i

gotta just execute pitches a little bit better and maybe do a little bit more homework on how guys are adjusting to me.

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