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Mets' Uribe provides quick dividends after trade

Published Jul. 27, 2015 5:21 p.m. ET

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Juan Uribe is already with his third team this season, but he needed less than 48 hours to endear himself to Mets fans.

Uribe belted a walk-off single in the 10th inning Sunday to lift the Mets to a 3-2 victory over the Dodgers - the club with which he began the season. Uribe's heroics had the same Mets followers who mocked the team's lineup last week singing a different tune on Twitter.

URIBE!!! Walk-off! #MetsWIN
— Tara McDonald (@TaraJMac) July 26, 2015

The 36-year-old third baseman, acquired along with Kelly Johnson from the Braves on Friday night, hammered an 0-2 fastball off closer Kenley Jansen that missed being a three-run homer by inches.

"That's why we got him," said Mets manager Terry Collins, whose club has scored the second-fewest runs (349) in the majors. "That's what he will bring to this team, along with Kelly, that veteran big-league bat the other team has to be concerned about."

It was the 10th career walk-off hit and first since August 2010 for Uribe, who said his game-winner had a postseason feel to it. “I think in this moment, it is like when you play in the playoffs, in the World Series and you win it,” Uribe said.

The Dodgers certainly will be glad not to see Uribe for the rest of the regular season. He beat his ex-teammates three times in a seven-day span, including a pair of go-ahead singles for the Braves last week.

“I have five years there, I have a very good time there,” Uribe said of Los Angeles. “Now this is my team here. I don’t care the other team, I am just helping my team.”