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New York Mets designated hitter Jesse Winker was impressed when he learned his team didn’t record a strikeout in 44 plate appearances in Friday night’s 12-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLCS.

Winker credited hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez and Mets batters Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo and Pete Alonso for the achievement.

“I just heard that, it’s unbelievable,” Winker said in a postgame interview at Citi Field. “We had a great game plan so credit to Barnesy and Chavey. Francisco, Nimmo and Pete really set the tone in the first inning.”

The Mets recorded 14 hits, five walks and three hit batters with no strikeouts in the must-win win. According to Mike Axisa of CBS Sports, they are the first team in 22 years to finish a postseason game without strikeouts.

The last team to achieve this feat was the Los Angeles Angels, who did not record a strikeout in 40 plate appearances in an 11-10 victory over the San Francisco Giants in Game 2 of the 2002 World Series, according to Axisa.

The only other team not to record a strikeout in a postseason game since MLB expansion in 1961 is the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Bucs accomplished the feat in 37 plate appearances during a 5-2 loss to the Dodgers in the 1974 NLCS, Axisa reported.

The Mets struck out in 22.4 percent of their at-bats during the regular season, but the top of the batting order set a different tone in the first inning when Lindor singled and Nimmo left the field in front of Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty.

After Mark Vientos hit a fly out, Alonso stepped to the plate and sent both runners home with a 432-foot home run that gave the Mets a lead they would hold for the rest of the game.

Flaherty recorded eight hits and eight earned runs in three innings in the Dodgers’ loss. Brent Honeywell, who took the mound in the fourth, helped extend the Mets’ no-strikeout streak, striking out pitches to Alonso, Winker and Tyrone Taylor before Anthony Banda was brought in to tie the game with two outs to finish in the eighth round.

Winker and his team will now look to carry Friday’s momentum into another competitive game on Sunday when the series returns to Los Angeles. The Mets need another win to push the Dodgers into a win-win Game 7 on Monday with a trip to the World Series on the line.