Pederson chats with Bonds, hits 3 HRs in wild win

SAN FRANCISCO — Joc Pederson turned a pair of pregame chats with residence run king Barry Bonds into the perfect night time of his profession.

Pederson homered 3 times and drove in a career-high eight runs, together with a tying single with two outs within the ninth inning, and the San Francisco Giants outslugged the New York Mets 13-12 on Tuesday in one of many wildest video games possible.

“Simply getting information from such hitter and the best way he thinks about baseball and hitting, it simply helped to attach some dots to free my thoughts up on the plate,” Pederson stated. “I am not ever going to be Barry Bonds. He is the perfect hitter to the touch a bat. But it surely undoubtedly helped free my thoughts up within the field.”

Brandon Crawford hit a game-winning single off nearer Edwin Diaz and the Giants — after blowing a late six-run lead — in some way recovered to tug off two unbelievable comebacks of their very own.

Francisco Lindor homered and drove in six runs for the Mets, together with a bases-loaded triple that put them forward in a seven-run eighth.

Pederson was getting ready for the sport when he and teammate LaMonte Wade Jr. spent half-hour with Bonds within the Giants’ clubhouse. Pederson and Bonds chatted once more in a personal workplace earlier than Pederson politely excused himself.

“The following factor it was like 6:25 p.m. and I used to be like, ‘I gotta go,”’ Pederson stated.

San Francisco squandered an 8-2 cushion by giving up two runs within the seventh and 7 within the eighth to fall behind 11-8. Pederson tied it with a three-run homer within the backside half, however the Giants trailed 12-11 within the ninth earlier than rallying with two outs and none on to stun New York and finish their five-game shedding streak.

“He was joking about it after his first one, about speaking to Barry,” Giants starter Logan Webb stated of Pederson. “Then he hit the second, then he hit the third and it was like, man, this man is one thing else. You are not going to cheat him with something. He is attempting to try this each at-bat.”

Pederson launched a pair of two-run homers off Mets starter Chris Bassitt. San Francisco’s slumping cleanup hitter then crushed his third homer of the night time, a three-run drive into McCovey Cove off reliever Drew Smith with two outs within the eighth to erase New York’s 11-8 lead.

“He had night time in opposition to us,” Mets supervisor Buck Showalter stated. “We missed a whole lot of areas with fastballs tonight. That is not the best way we have been doing it for probably the most half, so tonight was a problem for us.”

Pederson was 4-for-46 in Could earlier than his huge day.

“It was in all probability the perfect particular person offensive efficiency that I’ve ever been round, contemplating all issues like huge moments within the recreation and the need to be resilient even in that final at-bat,” Giants supervisor Gabe Kapler stated.

The Mets went again forward within the ninth on Brandon Nimmo’s sacrifice fly after Dominic Smith’s leadoff triple.

However within the backside half, Mike Yastrzemski walked with two outs and Darin Ruf singled. Pederson’s single tied it and Crawford, who struck out 3 times earlier, adopted with a pointy single off Diaz (1-1) that drove in Ruf.

It was the third blown save for Diaz. John Brebbia (2-0) bought the win.

The loss prevented the Mets (29-16) from being the primary Nationwide League group to succeed in 30 wins. The Yankees had been the primary American League group to do it, having overwhelmed the Orioles earlier within the day.

Eduardo Escobar had 4 hits for the Mets, who put collectively their newest huge comeback earlier than falling quick. New York scored 5 runs within the ninth inning of a 5-2 win at St. Louis on April 25 and 7 within the ninth for an 8-7 victory at Philadelphia on Could 5.

Giants reliever Tyler Rogers allowed 4 consecutive singles to open the eighth, and Dominic Smith’s two-run single made it 8-6. After Mark Canha was caught in a rundown between third and residential, Nimmo reached on an infield single and Starling Marte singled in a run to load the bases.

Lindor adopted with a pointy liner into the left-field nook and Pederson briefly fumbled the ball as all three runners scored. Pete Alonso added a sacrifice fly.

Tommy La Stella hit a three-run homer for the Giants. His second this season additionally got here off Bassitt, who was tagged for a career-high eight runs in 4⅓ innings.