Brandon Nimmo’s Catch Helps Mets Beat Dodgers

Nimmo bounded back to the field, smiling and shouting (“Let’s go!”), clutching the ball in his bare hand to show the crowd. DeGrom, usually so stoic on the mound, raised both arms in celebration and doffed his cap to Nimmo.

“That was what saved the game there,” right fielder Starling Marte — who drove in Nimmo with a two-run homer off Tyler Anderson in the third inning — said through a translator. “That was a tremendous catch. Just the emotion he had there, it motivates me to go out there and play with that level of emotion.”

With a narrow lead over Atlanta in the N.L. East — just three games after the Braves’ 3-2 victory over Colorado on Wednesday — the Mets will take all the extra motivation they can get. Yet the impact of any victory is fleeting, and the Mets face the imposing Clayton Kershaw on Thursday afternoon.

“I need to start toning down a little bit,” Nimmo said. “Otherwise, I won’t fall asleep til 6 a.m.”

By closing August in style, the Mets pulled even in their season series with the Dodgers, three games apiece. Thursday’s matinee is not a true Game 7, of course, but let’s raise a trumpet for the possibility of an October rematch with a pennant at stake.

“I can’t wait for Díaz to play this at a World Series victory,” Timmy Trumpet said before the series. “I’ll be there for that one.”

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