Tyrone Taylor Sparks Mets Rally in 7-6 Yankees Score Walk-Off Win

The Yankees score vanished in the ninth, and the Mets turned a 7-6 walk-off win out of a three-run deficit on Sunday. Tyrone Taylor’s three-run homer tied it, and the Mets then finished the comeback in the 10th.

Taylor’s 404-foot swing

Taylor said he was looking for a curveball from David Bednar and got it on the first pitch he saw. He drove the ball 404 feet into the night and suddenly a loss that looked settled was back level at 6-6.

The Mets had been 0-91 when trailing after eight innings since the start of last season, so the last two innings changed the shape of the game as much as the final score. Carson Benge then put the ball in play in the 10th, and his chopper scored Marcus Semien from third base for the winning run.

New York’s sixth-inning swing

This comeback started with a larger hole. The Mets were down 5-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth and had already erased a four-run deficit before the late rally took over.

Freddy Peralta issued six walks and failed to record an out in the sixth inning, while Bo Bichette dropped a routine popup that let the Yankees add another run. Sean Manaea later walked Max Schuemann and Anthony Volpe in the seventh, then kept New York off the board in the eighth and ninth.

Mets’ 5-1 homestand

The win pushed the Mets to 5-1 on the homestand, and every one of those five victories came from a comeback. Carlos Mendoza put the streak in plain terms after the game: “That’s impressive, right? That’s hard to do.”

He added, “Baseball, it’s hard to explain at times. Now, we continue to come back in games. We get down, we get punched in the face, we get back up. Today was a perfect example.” The manager also said, “We didn’t play our best,” even as the Mets kept finding hits late.

Taylor summed up the mood as “Bummed out to happy.” The bigger number is 20-26, the Mets’ record at the time, and this win came from a group Mendoza said was still getting contributions from players who had been struggling.