Tuesday night’s 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, their third in a row, wasn’t flashy. It was the kind of gritty, sweat-it-out victory that good teams find a way to secure. In a ballgame defined by tension and tightrope moments, it was the Mets who kept their balance.

In the seventh, Brett Baty crushed a ball over the left field fence to lift the Mets to a 2-1 win over the Pirates on Tuesday at Citi Field.

Infield prospect Brett Baty was one of the bright spots of the New York Mets' latest homestand that included the club earning four wins in five games before he went 0-2 as a pinch-hitter in Wednesday's 4-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.