There are simply no words to describe what happened on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium in game-3 of the four-game series between the Dodgers and New York Mets in front of 40,559 fans, although many of them had already left. And why wouldn’t they. Their team was down 8-5 heading into the bottom of the ninth with one of the best closers in the game on the mound for the NL East third place Mets. So instead of even trying to explain what happened, I’ll let MLB’s Gameday do so:

Yes, Mets star closer Edwin Diaz, who has 13 saves on the season and had only one blown save, now has two … and is was epic.

“Today was easily the worst day of my career, the worst game of my career, the worst game of the season for me,” Diaz told reporters after his complete meltdown inning. “I thought I threw excellent pitches, they were strikes. I was throwing the ball where I wanted to and they just got me. My mentality doesn’t change. I was throwing my fastball, I was throwing my slider. I was throwing my fastball with good velocity. But they just kept hitting the ball. They just got me good today.”

Yes, they did.

“It just says, really, we’re nasty,” Dodgers rookie outfielder and Wednesday night’s hero Alex Verdugo told SportsNet LA’s Alana Rizzo after his game-winning walk-off sacrifice fly. “The boys can hit.”

And hit they did. In fact, on the night and for the second time in a week, the boys tied the Los Angeles Dodgers record of eight doubles in a nine-inning game. But to be brutally honest, being down by three with only three outs remaining is definitely a less-than-ideal situation.

Or is it?

“You never want to concede, but if [Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner] doesn’t get that hit [in the bottom of the seventh], I was going to take him out of the game and get him off his feet,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters after the exciting game. “But once we did that, we’re in slam range, I felt we got to take our chances.”

Roberts’ gamble paid off, as Turner became the tying run with his ninth-inning double following back-to-back home runs by Joc Pederson and Max Muncy. He would then, in fact, score that tying run on a double by Cody Bellinger one batter later.

“I don’t know, man, we’re good,” Bellinger said of his team’s improbable comeback win.

“He pitched last night and a couple of us faced him,” Dodgers first baseman Matt Beaty said of Diaz. (It was Beaty’s infield single that loaded the bases for Verdugo). “Joc came into the dugout and said his fastball didn’t have as much life, so I think everybody was excited to get up there and do something good.”

…and good they did.

It just doesn’t get any better than this.

Play Ball!

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