Brandon Nimmo's Game 2 was an 'emotional rollercoaster'

PHILADELPHIA – After an eventful Sunday, Brandon Nimmo brushed off an injury scare and potential controversy.

Nimmo was in the thick of things when the Mets lost 7-6 to the Phillies in Game 2, with the club losing a game but no outfielder.

In the ninth inning, Kyle Schwarber lifted a fly ball to shallow left field. Nimmo and Mark Vientos met in a noisy Citizens Bank Park and couldn't hear each other.

Vientos caught the ball, but accidentally pushed Nimmo onto the turf. A trainer rushed to left field to check on him.

“I got the wind knocked out of me,” Nimmo said with a shrug before covering up a strange moment in the seventh inning.

Against star righty Orion Kerkering, Nimmo sent a home run into the right field.

When he arrived home, he appeared to say something to Phillies catcher JT Realmuto.

His words “had nothing to do with the home run,” Nimmo said. “I have the greatest respect for Realmuto. He's one of the most genuine guys. That was completely misinterpreted. That had nothing to do with it.”

Nimmo said there is no ill will toward Realmuto or any of his Phillies teammates. Realmuto seemed confused.

“To be honest, I don’t know (what Nimmo said),” Realmuto told reporters in the home clubhouse. “He said something about (starter Cristopher) Sanchez, but I don’t know what he said.

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“I didn’t say a word.”

Aside from the run-ins, physical with Vientos and less physical with Realmuto, Nimmo played a strong game in which he reached an infield single and came in hard a few times.

He did what he could in a day filled with swings, both swing and bat, with the Mets tying the game on a Vientos blast in the bottom of the ninth before tying the game on a walk-off pitch in the bottom of the ninth by Nick Castellanos failed individually.

“I’m completely exhausted right now,” Nimmo said. “You experience an emotional rollercoaster. Just being mentally and emotionally at every pitch and every pitch is so important.

“It drains you mentally, but you’re so into it that you don’t really notice it until you come down.”