At least the Mets aren’t going down without a fight.
They’ve got a chair-throwing GM, an embattled manager who was tossed as he watched multiple players get hit by pitches but later Saturday night, the Mets were rewarded with a victory.
The Mets came back with a three-run double by Tomas Nido in the fifth to take the lead and then saw Edwin Diaz close it for the save in a 6-5 win over the Phillies on Saturday at Citi Field.
“We have faith in all our players,’’ Mickey Callaway said after getting tossed. “We understand sometimes they don’t get it done and especially out of the bullpen, it’s been a rough go of it in the first half, but we will never give up on the players. We’ll never give up on the season.”
It certainly seems too late to do much about that, with the Mets still having won just three of their past 12 games as they stagger toward the All-Star break.
Still, it was a change in what has been mostly a disastrous season in Queens, since it was shaping up to be yet another bad night, with a shoddy performance by Noah Syndergaard and news coming — exclusively from The Post — that embattled general manager Brodie Van Wagenen tossed a chair during a meeting with Callaway and his coaches on Friday night after another poor outing by the bullpen.
And then Todd Frazier got hit with a changeup by Jake Arrieta in the bottom of the fifth, slammed his bat down and got ejected and grew more furious, as both benches were warned.
Two batters later, Arrieta hit Amed Rosario with another changeup, this one to load the bases, but home plate umpire Tripp Gibson didn’t toss Arrieta, despite having hit three batters on the night.
That got Callaway to bolt out of the dugout and get ejected — but it may have worked to the Mets’ advantage, as Arrieta stayed in the game just long enough to allow a bases-clearing double to Nido that put the Mets ahead for good.
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The drama was just the latest bit of bad blood the teams have shared this season, with no signs of stopping, as Arrieta said following the game that if Frazier was upset, he could see him and Arrieta would “put a dent in his skull.”
Seth Lugo fanned Segura with two on to end the top of the eighth and the struggling Diaz tossed a scoreless ninth for the save against the heart of Philadelphia’s order, getting Jay Bruce to end it.
After the start of the game was delayed for 46 minutes by the threat of rain that never came, Noah Syndergaard opened with a 10-pitch first before the Mets scored in the bottom of the inning.
Syndergaard gave up a booming two-run homer to Bruce with one out in the second and Maikel Franco hit a solo shot to left later in the inning to put the Phillies up, 3-1.
McNeil’s RBI single made it 3-2, but Syndergaard allowed another run on a double by Rhys Hoskins in the third.
The Mets got a run back in the bottom of the frame and the chaos picked up in the bottom of the fifth, when Arrieta hit Frazier with an 0-1 changeup, angering Frazier, who had to be held back by Dom Smith and was ejected and replaced by Adeiny Hechavarria.
Both benches were warned before Smith ripped a double and then Arrieta hit Rosario with another changeup.
Nido followed with his three-run double to make it 6-4 and finally knock Arrieta out of the game.
Robert Gsellman drilled Jean Segura with one out in the seventh and no action was taken again.
Steven Matz, recently shifted to the bullpen, came on and gave up a single to Harper, but Hechavarria made a tremendous catch on Hoskins’ liner to third for the second out.
Realmuto drove in a run to make it 6-5, but Matz got Bruce to ground to second to preserve the lead.