September 29 – Joey Ortiz struck out three and six pitchers of the Milwaukee Brewers and combined for two hits to give New York a 6–0 win over the visiting Mets on Saturday night and take the lead in the National League wild card race.
The Mets (87-72) are tied for the final NL wild-card spot with the Arizona Diamondbacks (88-73), who lost to the Padres on Saturday.
After concluding the three-game series in Milwaukee on Sunday, the Mets will play a make-up doubleheader in Atlanta on Monday.
Ortiz hit a single against New York starter Jose Quintana in the fourth to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead. Willy Adames had a single and Rhys Hoskins and Isaac Collins loaded the bases around strikeouts. Ortiz then hit a 3-2 curveball to shallow center.
Milwaukee added four runs in the eighth inning when Garrett Mitchell hit a single to start the game and stole second. William Contreras walked and Adams followed with an RBI single. Jake Bauers’s single loaded the bases and Ortiz made it 4-0 with two outs. Andrew Monasterio laced a two-run single to center.
Tobias Miles (9-6) earned the win with one hit in four innings of relief after reliever Jared Koenig pitched the first inning. Joel Pampas struck out all three batters in the sixth inning, and Aaron Ashby, Nick Meyers and Devin Williams pitched hitless innings.
Quintana (10-10) allowed two runs on five hits in 4 1/3 innings, struck out nine and walked two.
The NFC Central champion Brewers (93-68) have clinched the third seed in the playoffs and will host the wild-card series.
New York came into danger in the fifth inning when Starlin Marte led off the inning with a ground-out double and a ground out. Myers advanced to third on Harrison Bader and Luis Angel Acuna hit a soft fly to right.
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