NY Mets 9 at Miami 8 - Recap

MIAMI -- Travis d'Arnaud blasted an upper-deck solo home run in the top of the 16th inning to lead the New York Mets to a wild 9-8 win over the Miami Marlins on Thursday night at Marlins Park.

The game, which ended at 12:51 a.m. EDT, was tied for the fourth longest in Marlins history.

D'Arnaud, who went 4-for-6 with four RBIs, is hitting .333. He homered on the second pitch by Adam Conley, who had been scheduled to start on Friday but was used when Miami ran out of relievers.

Yoenis Cespedes hit two solo homers for Mets (7-3), who have won five consecutive games. Wilmer Flores banged a solo shot, and New York's bullpen also starred, pitching 11 1/3 scoreless innings.

Miami (4-5) was led by Marcell Ozuna, who hit a grand slam, giving him four homers and 16 RBIs this season. Ozuna ended the game when he hit a long flyout to the warning track in center.

It was an odd game featuring eight runs scored in the first inning and 15 by the fifth. But then the game became a pitching duel with just two runs scored from the sixth to the 16th inning.

Neither starting pitcher was effective. Miami's Wei-Yin Chen allowed six runs on seven hits in three innings. New York's Robert Gsellman gave up eight runs on five hits and three walks in 4 2/3 innings.

After loading the bases with two walks and an infield single in the first, the Marlins got four quick runs on Ozuna's two-out grand slam down the left field line.

The Mets came back to tie the score in the bottom of the first. They loaded the bases with no outs on three singles and cashed in on d'Arnaud's three-run triple to right that beat a shift and Curtis Granderson's two-out single to center.

New York led off the third with homers on consecutive pitches by Cespedes and Flores. Cespedes went deep again in the fifth as the Mets went up 7-4.

Gsellman had retired 10 consecutive batters before Miguel Rojas led off the fifth with an infield hit that spun oddly and handcuffed Mets second baseman Neil Walker. That led to the bases loaded, a four-run inning and an 8-7 Miami lead.

Miami's runs came on a walk by Christian Yelich, a sacrifice fly by Giancarlo Stanton, an RBI double by Justin Bour and a run-scoring single by Derek Dietrich. The hits by Bour and Dietrich, both lefty batters, came against lefty reliever Josh Edgin.

The Mets appeared to tie the score in the seventh on a single by Jay Bruce. Cespedes came home from second on the play, but after a review it was ruled that catcher A.J. Ellis made a grazing tag. The assist went to Ozuna in left field.

New York did tie the score in the eighth. D'Arnaud hit a two-out single and scored from first when pinch hitter Michael Comforto pulled a double to the right-center gap.

NOTES: Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria announced he has commissioned a 10-foot-tall bronze statue of ex-pitching star Jose Fernandez, who died in a boat crash in September. The statue, which will likely reside in front of Marlins Park, should be ready toward the end of the season. ... The Mets benched 3B Jose Reyes because he was hitting .054 (2-for-37). But he lined a pinch-hit single in the sixth. ... The Mets activated CF Juan Lagares (left oblique) and sent RHP Paul Sewald to Triple-A Las Vegas. Lagares went 0-for-3 on Thursday. ... Mets RHP Zack Wheeler, whose fastball reached 97 mph in beating the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday, appears to be all the way back from elbow surgery. His win was his first since September 2014, and batters are 0-for-12 against his slider this season.