ATLANTA – Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez didn’t even see the balk that gave Atlanta its latest extra-innings win.
Everyone else did.
With a runner on third and two outs in the 10th inning, Mets reliever D.J. Carrasco stopped and then restarted his motion with Jason Heyward at the plate, bringing home the winning run to give the Atlanta Braves a 9-8 win Thursday night.
“The next thing I know Heyward’s hands are in the air without a bat,” Gonzalez said. “I said ‘What’s going on?’”
Heyward said he recognized the balk immediately.
“(Carrasco) went to set and then he tried to go back and get another sign … without stepping off,” Heyward said.
Even Carrasco couldn’t argue the call by plate umpire James Hoye that scored Diory Hernandez from third.
“Yeah, as soon as he said it, it made sense,” Carrasco said. “It’s kind of like surreal.”
Hernandez doubled with two outs in the 10th and took third after first baseman Lucas Duda mishandled Jordan Schafer’s grounder. Hernandez scored the winning run on the balk as Gonzalez watched from the dugout.
It was all made possible by Brooks Conrad’s homer off Francisco Rodriguez in the bottom of the ninth. That came after the Mets took a two-run lead after
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