Sean Manaea won his fourth straight decision, Brandon Nimmo hit a tiebreaking single in a three-run seventh inning and the New York Mets beat visiting Philadelphia 6-3 on Saturday to prevent the Phillies from clinching the NL East title.
Francisco Alvarez and Luisangel Acuña hit second-inning home runs that put the Mets ahead 2-1. Alvarez added a two-run double in the seventh.
New York (86-69) won for the 17th time in 22 games. The Mets are two games ahead of Atlanta for the final NL wild card.
The Phillies (92-63), who have lost two of the first three games of the four-game series, can secure their first NL East title since 2011 with a victory over the Mets tonight.
Manaea (12-5) retired 21 of 24 batters, allowing Kyle Schwarber’s record-extending 15th leadoff home run of the season, Nick Castellanos’ tying homer in the fifth and J.T. Realmuto’s leadoff single in the eighth.
BRAVES 6, MARLINS 2 >> Matt Olson broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run homer and Atlanta won at Miami.
Gio Urshela and Jorge Soler also went deep for the Braves.
Atlanta starter Max Fried allowed two runs — one earned — and five hits over six innings. Fried (10-10) walked one, struck out six and reached double-digit wins for the fourth time in his career.
Olson connected off reliever Lake Bachar (0-1), sending his 29th homer over the right-center field wall to snap a 2-all tie.
TIGERS 6, ORIOLES 4, 10 INNINGS >> Riley Greene drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th and visiting Detroit inched closer in the AL wild-card chase by beating Baltimore.
Detroit moved within a half-game of the Twins for the final American League playoff spot.
The surging Tigers have won 10 of 13 to put themselves in surprise postseason contention after being under .500 a month ago.