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Here is what is becoming clear about the 2025 Mets: They will not give up.
The Mets were down 2-0 after four innings and 3-2 after five and a half before serving up a painful, game-tying home run in the top of the ninth.
So they just mounted one more comeback.
Francisco Lindor demolished a walk-off home run, the third of his career and his first with the Mets, to lift the Mets to an entertaining, 5-4 win over the Cardinals in front of 39,627 loud fans at Citi Field who enjoyed warmer weather, crisper play and a never-say-die attitude.
The Mets (13-7) have taken the first two games of a four-game set thanks to their unofficial captain, mostly excellent relief work and bats that kept coming back.
They did not lead Friday until there was one out in the bottom of the eighth, when they faced former Met Phil Maton.
Mark Vientos singled and exited for pinch-runner Luisangel Acuña, who stole second.
Nimmo hit a grounder to Gold Glover Nolan Arenado at third, and Acuna decided to test Arenado’s legs: Acuña sprinted and angled away from Arenado, and Arenado tried to cut him off.
Both dove, and Arenado appeared to miss the tag — but Acuna overslid the base, and Arenado’s second lunge apparently tagged Acuña before he returned to the base.
The Mets challenged, but the call stood.
What seemed to be a crushing play was not: Maton tried a pickoff and bounced the ball into foul territory, allowing Nimmo to take second, before Luis Torrens ripped a double down the third-base line for an RBI that gave the Mets a lead that did not last.
