Outfielder Brandon Nimmo’s first home run of the season gave the Mets a 3-2 lead in the top of the sixth inning. But in the bottom half, Hansel Robles and Chasen Bradford each walked batters with the bases loaded to squander the lead. After Adam Lind’s home run gave the Nationals a 5-3 lead in the eighth, they held off a Mets surge in the ninth. Montero was supposed to throw a bullpen session on Sunday, so Collins brought him into the game instead, hoping to spare the relievers some work. The Mets had a nine-man bullpen for the doubleheader, and Collins used more than half of it to complete the first game, an unusual strategy in a late-season game for a team not headed to the playoffs.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2017 00:41 UTC