NEW YORK (Interstat) — Mark Vientos delivered a go-ahead single in the eighth inning, lifting the New York Mets to a 3-2 win over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday at Citi Field.

The Mets, who improved to 8-16, broke a 2-2 tie when Vientos’ fly ball to right field scored Brett Baty. New York took an early lead on Francisco Lindor’s first-inning RBI single. After the Twins tied it on Victor Caratini’s sacrifice fly in the fourth, Francisco Alvarez put the Mets back ahead with an RBI double in the bottom half. Minnesota’s Byron Buxton countered with a game-tying solo home run in the sixth.

Winning pitcher Luke Weaver moved to 2-0, while Taylor Rogers took the loss for the Twins, who fell to .500 at 12-12. Attendance was 32,665 and the game took 2 hours, 46 minutes.