The trouble would bleed over into the bottom of the third. Mets’ right fielder, Starling Marte, doubled to begin the frame, followed by a walk to shortstop, Francisco Lindor, a single to Alonso, and then walked in a run via a seven-pitch free pass to Martinez after starting ahead 0-2 in the count. Sanchez finished strong at least, striking out the next three batters on nine straight strikes, eight of them swinging.

While Sanchez settled down over the middle innings, the offense got only one more runner on base against Manaea after Stubbs’ bunt single in the second inning, a fourth inning walk by Brandon Marsh.

Manaea went six innings and the Phillies’ immediately hopped on his replacement, right-hander, Jorge Lopez, to the tune of back to back singles by Sosa and Marsh to begin the seventh inning. After Marsh swiped his second bag of the game to put both runners in scoring position, Rojas grounded out to short, scoring Sosa and reducing the Mets’ lead to one run.

Alec Bohm endured a frustrating sequence in the bottom of the seventh inning as Seranthony Dominguez, who finished the bottom of the sixth for Sanchez, issued a one-out walk to Alonso before Martinez hit a trailing bouncer down the left field line that bounced just fair at the bag and left Bohm with no play to put two men on. Gregory Soto came on to face Mets’ left-handed hitting third baseman, Brett Baty, who was then lifted for Tyrone Taylor to get the favorable righty-lefty matchup. Taylor would hit a similar mortar shot right at the third base bag that Bohm just missed on the bounce at the bag for a fielding error that scored Alonso to replenish the Mets two-run lead.

Mets’ setup man, Adam Ottavino, continued the suppression of the Phillies’ offense with a 1-2-3 top of the eighth inning.

Phillies’ recent mop-up call-up, Jose Ruiz, got a fortuitous 1-2-3 bottom of the eighth of his own before the magic started.

After a stomach-churning fanfare exhibition ended with Edwin Diaz toeing the rubber for New York, Stott remained the hottest hitter on the team with a leadoff solo shot to again cut the lead to one in the top of the ninth inning.

Kody Clemens came on to pinch hit for Sosa for the mismatch advantage and promptly ripped an 0-1 breaking ball to right center to put two men on with no outs. Diaz seemed shaken by that point and quickly issued a four-pitched walk to Marsh. A suspectly healthy Kyle Schwarber came up to pinch hit for Rojas and struck out on five pitches. Stubbs broke his bat on a first pitch pop-up and the Phillies were down to their last out. Then, Whit Merrifield worked a five-pitch walk and Alec Bohm received some karmic readjustment in the way of a fastball off his phalanges to score Clemens to tie the game.

Orion Kerkering pitched a poised and convincing bottom of the ninth to send the game to extras.

With Harper beginning the top of the tenth inning as the ghost runner, Mets’ reliever Sean Reid-Foley, missed his spot on a slider to Nick Castellanos that ended up a wild pitch and brought Harper to third. Castellanos would walk to again bring Stott up in a clutch opportunity. Down 0-2 in the count, Stott fouled off another pitch before sending a deep enough fly ball to right center to score Harper via the sacrifice.

With Mets’ outfielder, DJ Stewart, the designated runner in place of the less sprightly Martinez, at second, Jose Alvarado came on and retired the side in order to secure the comeback victory.

The sides are back at it tomorrow afternoon as Aaron Nola opposes Jose Butto in the second game of the four game home-at-home series.