DENVER — Just when another night of anguish with RISP appeared ready to spell R.I.P. for the Mets, a wounded star came to the rescue.
Francisco Lindor cast aside the team’s ugly performance with runners in scoring position by delivering a pinch-hit, two-run double in the ninth inning that provided the margin of victory in a 4-2 win over the Rockies at Coors Field.
Lindor, who missed a second straight start after sustaining a broken right pinky toe in Los Angeles, emerged from the dugout with two outs in the ninth and smashed a shot to right field that brought in Juan Soto and Pete Alonso. 5
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The Mets, who won for the sixth time in eight games, survived a 2-for-15 performance with runners in scoring position.
Soto singled with one out to begin the go-ahead rally, and Alonso, w