The New York Mets are finally in the win column for the 2024 season thanks to a ninth-inning rally and walk-off 2-1 win against the Detroit Tigers on Thursday.
It was looking bleak up until that ninth-inning rally.
The Mets had already lost the first game of a doubleheader, 6-3, to the Tigers and were no-hit through the first seven innings of the second game. At one point during the doubleheader, they had gone 13 consecutive innings without a hit. That was the longest hit-less streak in Mets history.
But their fortunes changed in the bottom of the eighth inning when Harrison Bader dropped a single into a left field to at least give them a knock. Then, in the bottom of the ninth inning, superstar first basemen Pete Alonso finally gave the team a run, hitting a lead-off homer to tie the game.