Good things come to those who wait. The problem is that both teams in an extra innings game are waiting— and one of them is walking away with a consolation prize.

Just as they had yesterday, the Mets started off the scoring, this time on a Pete Alonso homer to center. Taijuan Walker remained shaky into the 2nd, allowing a base hit to Starling Marte, who promptly stole second and was then sent home as a speedy grounder from Brett Baty took an orange and blue bounce right past a diving Bryce Harper’s glove to bring the score to 2-1. He put more traffic on the basepaths with a walk of Jeff McNeil, but induced a grounder from Omar Narváez, batting 9th, to end the frame.

The Phillies remained relatively sedate as José Quintana ably navigated the early frames; a second-inning 2-out line drive to center for Whit Merrifield, his career 1200th hit, remained the only noise made by the powder blue-clad Fightins in the first third of the game.

In the top of the 4th, Walker took a comebacker off the left foot; he left the game immediately afterward in visible pain. Matt Strahm came in to take his place with 1 out and runners on first and second. Strahm’s shaggy hair flapped in the wind as he emerged from the bullpen; everything else about him was unflappable as he induced a quick grounder and foul pop to strand the inherited runners, then sent down the side in order in the 5th.

The Phillies put just their third baserunner of the game on with two outs in the 5th, as Edmundo Sosa did his best Alec Bohm impression and got hit by a pitch; it came to naught.

Orion Kerkering took the ball from Strahm in the top of the 6th; striking out three Mets. In the bottom of the 6th the Phillies finally showed signs of breaking through Quintana’s stuff, with Realmuto hammering a ball that just missed being a homer, banging off the right field wall. Marte’s fielding, however, ensured that the excellently struck ball resulted in nothing more than an unusually thrilling single. A better break came just moments later, as a lightly hit ground from Harper found just the right spot to tangle up Francisco Lindor, putting runners on first and second and ending Quintana’s night.

His replacement, Reed Garrett, was given the unenviable task of facing Alec Bohm with a runner in scoring position. Bohm did what he does (no, not getting hit by a pitch with the bases loaded), and Realmuto was soon crossing the plate, beating out the throw from left to give the Phillies their first run of the night. A sacrifice fly from Nick Castellanos scored Harper and tied the game.

After Gregory Soto sent the Mets down in order in the 7th, Rob Thomson sent Bryson Stott in as a pinch hitter for Cristian Pache; he worked a walk. Kyle Schwarber smacked one just to the right of first base. It seemed to roll and roll for ages. giving Stott plenty of time to run home and Schwarber plenty of time to celebrate his 800th career hit.

Jeff Hoffman took over in the 8th and immediately encountered trouble in the form of baserunners put on by throwing error (from Stott) and walk. Hoffman K’d Lindor and J.D. Martinez, but, like Walker, fell victim to the dreaded comebacker: Harrison Bader smacked a ball off of his back, which bounced into center to score the tying run. A wild pitch then gave the Mets a 4-3 lead.