Brandon Nimmo’s Sport 2 was an ’emotional curler coaster’

PHILADELPHIA — After an eventful Sunday, Brandon Nimmo dismissed an harm scare and a possible controversy.

Nimmo was in the course of plenty of the motion within the Mets’ 7-6 loss to the Phillies in Sport 2, through which the membership misplaced a recreation however didn’t lose an outfielder.

Within the ninth inning, Kyle Schwarber lifted a fly ball to shallow left subject. Nimmo and Mark Vientos converged in a loud Residents Financial institution Park and couldn’t hear one another.

Vientos caught the ball however inadvertently leveled Nimmo to the grass within the course of. A coach rushed out to left subject to examine on him.

“I bought the air knocked out of me,” Nimmo mentioned in shrugging it off, earlier than shrugging off a curious second within the seventh inning.

Dealing with stud righty Orion Kerkering, Nimmo despatched a bullet of a house run into the right-field seats.

He appeared to say one thing to Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto upon reaching residence.

His phrases “had nothing to do with the house run,” Nimmo mentioned. “I’ve the utmost respect for Realmuto. He’s one of the crucial stand-up guys. That was completely misconstrued. That had nothing to do with it.”

Nimmo mentioned there was no sick will with Realmuto or any of his Phillies teammates. Realmuto appeared confused.

“To be trustworthy I don’t know [what Nimmo said],” Realmuto advised reporters within the residence clubhouse. “He mentioned one thing about [starter Cristopher] Sanchez, however I don’t know what he was saying.

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“I didn’t say a phrase.”

Aside from the run-ins, bodily with Vientos and fewer bodily with Realmuto, Nimmo performed a robust recreation through which he reached on an infield single and lined out arduous a number of occasions.

He did what he might on a day of swings, each in momentum and of the bat, with the Mets tying the sport within the prime of the ninth on a Vientos blast earlier than falling within the backside of the ninth on a Nick Castellanos walk-off single.

“I’m completely drained proper now,” Nimmo mentioned. “You undergo an emotional curler coaster. Simply mentally and emotionally being into each pitch and each pitch mattering a lot.

“It does mentally drain you, however you’re so into it you don’t actually understand it till you come down.”