Last Friday against the Phillies, the Mets had five pitchers combine to throw just the second no-hitter in Mets franchise history. The encore came on Thursday, less than a week from the no-hitter, when the Mets scored seven runs in the ninth inning to beat the Phillies 8-7 in Philadelphia.

It was an epic comeback for a Mets offense that entered the ninth inning with one run on only three hits. It was the first time that the Mets had erased a six-or-more-run deficit in the ninth to come back and win since Sept. 13, 1997 against the Expos.

The rally was started by Mets outfielder Starling Marte with a seemingly harmless infield single off James Norwood in a 7-1 game. Francisco Lindor hit a long two-run homer and Pete Alonso immediately doubled, the Mets were in business very quickly. After a lineout from Eduardo Escobar, Jeff McNeil picked up his second hit of the night with a single, putting runners on the corners with the Mets trailing 7-3.

Phillies manager Joe Girardi decided to bring in closer Corey Knebel, though things didn’t fare well for Corey. Mark Canha rudely greeted him with a single off the pitcher to make it 7-4, and bring the tying run to the plate. Dominic Smith struck out swinging before Mets manager Buck Showalter decided to use J.D. Davis as pinch hitter for catcher Tomas Nido. Davis responded with an RBI double that brought the deficit to 7-5 and put the tying run on second base.

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Brandon Nimmo, in the midst of an 0-for-4 night, lined a single up the middle to tie the game at 7-7. For some reason, Girardi still left Knebel in there to face Marte –the catalyst of the now six-run rally. Marte hit a deep double to left center field that scored Nimmo and gave the Mets an 8-7 lead.

Mets closer Edwin Diaz had no problems in the bottom of the ninth, setting down the Phillies in order with two strikeouts. Another nice feather in the cap of Diaz, following him striking out the side to close out the aforementioned no-hitter.

The Mets had entered Thursday night going 0-330 in their past 330 games when trailing by six-or-more runs entering the ninth inning. Amazin. The Mets are now slashing .310/.372/.524 in the ninth inning this season, good for an .896 OPS that is by far the best in the majors. The Mets also did a large portion of the damage with two outs, again. They’re second in the big leagues with 57 two-out RBIs to start the 2022 season.

A wild week has the Mets sitting at 19-9, five-and-half games above the second place Marlins and seven games ahead of the fourth place Phillies. It’s only been 28 games, but this 2022 Mets team is doing things Mets fans aren’t used to seeing and that could be a good sign of things to come.

“A night like tonight,” Buck Showalter said, “makes you realize what could be.”