Extra! Extra! Grandy accomplishes rare HR feat

NEW YORK — During a season in which the Mets have lost almost every star player to some sort of debilitating injury, including All-Star starter Jacob deGrom before Saturday night’s game, it was poetic justice that the guy who’s been around all year won it.

Curtis Granderson had played in 137 games coming into the action at Citi Field. In his 138th, he became the first Mets player in club history to hit a game-tying homer and a walk-off homer in extra innings as the Mets came from behind twice to defeat the Twins, 3-2, in 12 innings.

Byron Buxton homered to lead off the top of the 11th and Granderson answered in the bottom of the inning with an opposite-field shot to left off Minnesota’s Brandon Kintzler. Granderson then homered with two outs in the 12th against Ryan O’Rourke, a left-hander who had just come into the game to specifically face the lefty-swinging Granderson. It was the third walk-off homer of his career and second this season.

“To pick up the victory is obviously a good thing for us,” Granderson said. “We’ve just got to continue to keep winning ballgames regardless of who the opponent is or how we end up winning it. We win games, we get a chance to get into the postseason. That’s just the simple of it, and …

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