Adam Duvall hit his sixth home run of the season, leading off the 10th inning to give the Reds win of the game and the series, 2-1. It was the first career walk off home run for the struggling outfielder who entered the game on a double switch.
“It was a fastball, middle in. I was able to get the barrel to it. It was exciting," said Duvall. Winning the series was the icing on top. “This game’s about momentum. You’d like to take that hot streak and try to extend it. It feels good to get win the series. That’s what you’re trying to do.”
The Reds won a series for only the second time this season and the blow was struck by a player who was hitting .169 at game time.
“Nobody’s more deserving than Adam. He’s not out there feeling sorry for himself. He’s putting in the work and it’s paying off.," Reds manager Jim Riggleman said.
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The Mets had to learn to take turns when Sal Romano and Zack Wheeler met up in a old fashioned pitcher's duel.
With two outs in the second Asdrubal Cabrera, batting third hit a ground rule double. The only problem was he was supposed to bat second. That made Jay Bruce scheduled to hit fourth out for batting out of turn and he was called out by home plate umpire Gabe Morales. The umpires and the Reds' manager, Jim Riggleman was given a lineup with Cabrera second and Flores third. The Mets gave the Reds and the umpire the intended lineup but posted another lineup on the dugout wall for the players to follow.
"The team comes out and tells us a guy is batting out of order. It's not our job to tell them," crew chief Jerry Meals said. "What happens is you find the proper batter. In this case Flores hit second and made an out. It doesn't benefit the Reds. They already have an out. Cabrera hit and got a hit. Now it benefits them. Hey he batted out of order When they threw the first pitch to Cabrera that legalized Flores as a hitter. Now the proper batter is Bruce. In that case you take Cabrera off the field and call Bruce out. Now the batter is Gonzalez."It happened to the Reds in late 2008 at Shea Stadium when Dusty Baker made a double switch but there was miscommunication among the players.
"I've seen it happen in the minor leagues. It's been a long time, 32 years," Meals said.
It happened to the Reds in late 2008 at Shea Stadium when Dusty Baker made a double switch but changed his mind after the umpires made it official.
It was just an administrative thing that I didn’t take care of," first year manager Mickey Calloway said. "It’s frustrating. It probably cost us a game. We had a chance to score in the first and we didn’t. The most frustrated I’ve been is about the administrative thing today. I didn’t get the job done."
Once that mess was straightened out the young pitchers took over.
“Sal and Wheeler both really threw the ball well. They both got a lot of strikeouts and groundballs," Riggleman said.
Brandon Nimmo led off the third inning with a triple. He scored when Cabrera, now in his proper spot in the order grounded out to Joey Votto at first base. Romano also retired the next six batters in order until Amed Rosario singled with two outs in the fifth. Romano walked Nimmo but retired the last five batters he faced.
Romano finished with six innings, one earned run on four hits and a walk. He has five straight good starts.
“He’s throwing good. He knows what he is – a power pitcher with a hard sinker,” Riggleman said.
The Reds put two runners on base against Wheeler in the first inning but Scott Schebler grounded out to end the inning. Alex Blandion led off the second inning with a single but Wheeler retired 12 straight before Jesse Winker walked to start the sixth. Jose Peraza reached on an infield single. Votto drove in Winker with a solid single to right, tying the game and putting runners at the corners with no out. Eugenio Suarez struck out. Schebler walked to load the bases with one out but Blandino popped to short and Tony Cruz, replacing the traded Devin Mesoraco, struck out.
Wheeler finished with nearly the same line Romano did, six innings one run on four hits. He walked three.
Jared Hughes and Amir Garrett pitched a scoreless inning apiece for the Reds. Robert Gsellman pitched two perfect innings for the Mets.
Raisel Iglesias got the Mets out 1-2-3 in the ninth.
Seth Lugo retired Scott Schebler to start the bottom of the ninth. Blandino and Cruz struck out to send the game to the 10th inning.
Iglesias retired the side in order again.
“When Iglesias was fielding a ball in the ninth, he raised his arm and did something. When he came in, he went into the cage and worked it out. He actually threw the ball better in the 10th," Riggleman said.
Adam Duvall stepped in to face A.J. Ramos.
It was Riggleman, who realized the Mets were batting out of turn.
“I want to say as little about that as possible. I have a bad feeling about that. I felt bad. It’s so easy to have that happen. When I saw the lineup card, for some reason, it stuck with me that Flores was hitting third. When he walked up to hit second, it clicked and I checked the card," Riggleman said.
Riggleman thought he caught them again in the second inning.
“When I saw Gonzalez leading off, I thought they might be out of order again, but the umpires explained that the double didn’t count and Jay Bruce was out. Nobody had ever seen that happen, that part of it. The umpires were on it. They were the only four people in the place who knew the rule. They did a good job of letting both benches know what was going on.”
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