Jeurys Familia tried to give it away, but his teammates took it back.

J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil and Pete Alonso were the forces in the 10th inning Tuesday night, assembling a rally that led the Mets to a 4-3 victory over the Reds that let their beleaguered reliever off the hook.

Alonso’s sacrifice fly to deep right won it, after Davis had grinded a 10-pitch at-bat and doubled. McNeil’s ensuing single, for his fourth hit of the game, put runners on the corners with nobody out against Raisel Iglesias.

“We’re all in this together,” Alonso said. “That’s what we’re all about here, we are all about grinding it out and playing as hard as we can until the last pitch of the game and this was a real good team win.”

Davis, who had entered in the ninth inning as part of a double-switch, said he went to the plate in the 10th resisting the urge to try hitting a walk-off homer. Davis fell behind 0-2, but stroked a double on the 10th pitch he saw.

“I got myself in a good situation, a good position,” Davis said.

Familia imploded with two outs in the ninth, flushing a 3-1 lead on a walk and three straight singles. Daniel Zamora was summoned and walked Joey Votto to load the bases before Drew Gagnon got the final out by striking out Eugenio Suarez.

It was just the latest clunker by Familia, who has posted a 6.28 ERA in 14 appearances this season. On Monday, he walked two batters in the eighth inning but escaped before Edwin Diaz surrendered a go-ahead homer in the ninth to Jesse Winker.

But with the stud-closer Diaz unavailable after working three straight days, manager Mickey Callaway turned to Familia for a two-inning save. Familia survived the eighth and was on his way to success by getting two outs to begin the ninth.

“His stuff is undoubtedly there and we asked a lot out of him tonight,” Callaway said. “Getting six outs, he got five of them. I think he has got to understand, getting five outs that was big for us and then the guys behind him came in and picked him up and we got a win. Team win. We’ll continue to get him out there and get him going.”

Familia, who returned to the Mets on a three-year contract worth $30 million in the offseason, admitted his confidence is shaken.

“I’ve been having kind of a bad season,” Familia said. “But I think today was a good sign, starting to get rolling. I have lost a little bit of confidence from time to time, but I think this is a start in the right direction.”

Winker walked on four pitches with two outs in the ninth against Familia before Jose Iglesias, Kyle Farmer and Jose Peraza singled in succession, with the last of those hits tying it at 3-3.

Todd Frazier hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning after Jason Vargas had turned in his strongest start of the season.
Frazier hammered a Luis Castillo pitch into the left-field seats leading off the seventh for his second homer since rejoining the Mets last week, after opening the season on the injured list.

Michael Conforto’s RBI single in the eighth gave the Mets a cushion. To that point Conforto was in a 1-for-18 skid after a mostly positive April.

Vargas left to applause in the sixth after giving the Mets his best performance of the season and lowering his ERA from 7.20 to 5.75.
The left-hander pitched into the sixth inning for the first time this season, allowing one run on three hits and three walks over 5 ¹/₃ innings. Vargas got the first out of the sixth with his shutout intact before Suarez cleared the left-field fence to tie it 1-1. Vargas has pitched to a 1.93 ERA over his last three starts, but Tuesday marked the first time in that stretch he completed five innings.

Robert Gsellman provided the Mets with 1 ²/₃ scoreless innings before Familia entered in the eighth. Votto singled leading off the inning but got hit with a brain cramp on Suarez’s fly to shallow center and was doubled up after Juan Lagares made the running catch.

McNeil bunted for a single in the third inning to drive in the Mets’ first run. With Lagares at third base and two outs, McNeil placed a bunt between home and first base and went headfirst into the bag, just beating the flip to the pitcher covering.