Mets End Skid with Narrow Win, But Lindor Injury Casts Shadow Over Victory
He did get his chance. Weaver gave up one infield single in the ninth inning but struck out all three other batters he faced. When he struck out Byron Buxton to end the game, he stood on the mound almost motionless, as if he was unsure what would happen next. He pounded his fist into his glove softly once, looked up at the sky, and then went to greet his teammates.
“It was a sigh of relief,” he explained after the game. “I don’t want to say there was a lot of weight, right?…I think we have pushed so hard to simply try to give everything we can. But the harder you try, a lot of times, the more you fail.”



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