NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — What curse? The New York Mets put one in the books, and back in the win column on Wednesday night against the Minnesota Twins, snapping a 12-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t easy, but the Mets squeaked out a 3-2 victory, thanks in part to a go-ahead, bloop single from Mark Vientos in the bottom of the 8th inning.<\/p>\n
Juan Soto went 1 for 3 with a single and a walk in his return from a strained right calf, but shortstop Francisco Lindor was removed with left calf tightness after laboring around the bases while scoring from first on Francisco Alvarez’s go-ahead double in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Byron Buxton tied it 2-all with a leadoff homer in the sixth against Clay Holmes, his second longball in two nights.<\/p>\n
Brett Baty, who came off the bench to replace Lindor in the lineup, drew his second walk of the game with two outs in the eighth against Taylor Rogers (0-1). Alvarez coaxed a nine-pitch walk from Justin Topa before Vientos dumped an RBI single into shallow right field. Vientos had blatantly ran through a stop sign rounding third and was easily thrown out at home plate for the final out of the sixth.<\/p>\n
Luke Weaver (2-0) retired Luke Keaschall with the bases loaded to end the top of the eighth and struck out three batters in a one-hit ninth to secure New York’s first victory since April 7 at home against Arizona.<\/p>\n
The 12-game skid was the team’s longest since August 2002.<\/p>\n
Connor Prielipp, the Twins’ top pitching prospect, needed 82 pitches to get through four innings in his major league debut. But the 25-year-old left-hander showcased a good slider and limited a slumping New York lineup to two runs and four hits with six strikeouts and no walks.<\/p>\n
Holmes allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings.<\/p>\n
Batting cleanup, Lindor drove in a run by legging out an infield single with two outs in the first and Victor Caratini’s sacrifice fly tied the score in the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Mets hadn’t won a game since their 4-3 win against the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 7.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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