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Major League Baseball
San Francisco 3, NY Mets 2
When: 9:45 PM ET, Thursday, July 18, 2019
Where: Oracle Park, San Francisco, California
Temperature: 62°
Umpires: Home - Jeremie Rehak, 1B - James Hoye, 2B - Brian O'Nora, 3B - Mark Ripperger
Attendance: 36862

Donovan Solano capped a two-run rally in the bottom of the 16th inning with a bases-loaded, walk-off single Thursday night, giving the host San Francisco Giants a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets.

The Giants' rally for a season-best sixth straight win came after Mets slugger Pete Alonso bombed his 32nd home run off minor league call-up Williams Jerez (1-0) leading off the top of the 16th to put the Mets on top 2-1.

Alex Dickerson led off the bottom of the 16th with a double off the Mets' eighth pitcher, right-hander Chris Mazza (0-1), and Brandon Crawford tied the game with a double.

The Giants then loaded the bases on a hit batsman and a single by Kevin Pillar, after which Solano lined his hit to right field to end it and give the Giants their seventh win in nine extra-inning affairs this season.

The loss dropped the Mets to 3-6 in extra innings this season and snapped their four-game winning streak.

A game that began as a pitchers' duel between the Mets' Noah Syndergaard and Giants' Madison Bumgarner ended in a battle of bullpen and roster attrition, with the Mets using 22 of their 25 available players and the Giants 20.

Jerez, promoted from Triple-A earlier in the day and pitching for just the second time as a Giant, got the win after allowing one run in two innings.

Neither former All-Star starter got a decision in a game where no doubt their trade values increased.

Remaining unbeaten in nine career starts against the Mets, Bumgarner went a full nine innings for the first time since July 2016. He was charged with one run on five hits, with one walk and six strikeouts.

Seeking a fourth win in seven career starts against the Giants, Syndergaard left for a pinch hitter in the eighth inning of a 1-1 game. He allowed six hits and just the one run in seven innings, walking one and striking out eight.

The Mets' only run in the first 15 innings came on a double-play grounder off the bat of Alonso in the first inning after Jeff McNeil had led off the game with a double and advanced to third on a single by J.D. Davis.

The Giants got even in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Pillar after singles by Pablo Sandoval, Crawford and Mike Yastrzemski had loaded the bases with one out.

Dickerson finished with three hits in seven at-bats, while Crawford, Yastrzemski, Pillar and Solano had two apiece for the Giants, who were opening a seven-game homestand.

Davis went 3-for-7 for the Mets, who fell to 4-2 on their nine-game trip.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Mets   San Francisco
Noah Syndergaard Player Madison Bumgarner
No Decision W/L No Decision
7.0 IP 9.0
8 Strikeouts 6
6 Hits 5
1.29 ERA 1.00
Hitting
NY Mets   San Francisco
J.D. Davis Player Alex Dickerson
3 Hits 3
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 6
.429 Avg .429
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Mets 11 1 17 .196 22 16 1 4 0 0
San Francisco 14 0 21 .250 23 18 3 4 1 0