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With the Mets trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning, Acuña followed center fielder Tyrone Taylor, who was in scoring position after being hit by a pitch and then stealing second. Acuña slapped an outside slurve, bouncing it past the pitcher and pulling the first baseman into the infield.

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Instead of a tie game and another rocky outing for Dedniel Núñez, the Mets reliever tipped his hat as Nimmo — who also doubled and scored off Pittsburgh ace Paul Skenes in the fourth inning — bumped chests with Tyrone Taylor in the outfield to celebrate what manager Carlos Mendoza described as a “hell of a play.”

The Mets answered back in the fourth inning against Skenes. Nimmo led off the inning with a line drive double, and then center fielder Jeff McNeil, swinging on the first pitch, followed with a one-out double to right field to tie the game 1-1.

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