The Mets brought in Edwin Díaz with a three-run lead to close out the game, but things unraveled fast. Joc Pederson took a bad slider deep to cut the lead to two. Díaz shrugged it off, but then Max Muncy crushed a fastball for another home run. Suddenly it was a one-run game, and Díaz kept saying he’d get the next guy. Instead, he left another bad slider over the plate, and a single put the tying run in scoring position. Díaz stuck with the approach and gave up another hit, tying the game and bringing the go-ahead run to second.
The Mets tried to stop the bleeding with an intentional walk to set up a double play. They got the ground ball they needed, but a bad defensive miscue left them with no outs. Díaz still had a shot to limit the damage, but the final blow came on a sac fly. The Dodgers finished the comeback with home runs, doubles, a walk, and the game-winning fly ball. Pederson was locked in at the plate, and even took a few celebratory shadowboxing swings afterward. Cano, watching all this unfold, looked like a man rethinking his life choices.