Two late rallies saved the Mets from a weekend sweep by the Angels, and the team ultimately silenced Shohei Ohtani’s bat in his final New York visit before free agency this winter.

On Sunday at Citi Field, the Mets snapped a four-game losing streak with to a walk-off win thanks to a bases-loaded single by Rafael Ortega in the ninth inning. David Peterson pitched seven innings of one-run ball, his longest start of the season.

“Pete has been extremely competitive for us in a low-key manner. Despite everything else that might be stated, his performance was the key to the game, Buck Showalter remarked of Peterson afterward. Pete was the starter we needed to take us far into the game.

He was much more in control of the game, and he Һit a ton of ground balls. And he prevented Ohtani from harming us, which is no small effort.

Ohtani had gone 3-for-5 (all extra-base hits) with five walks through the first two games of the series despite suffering a UCL ιnjury in his right elbow, which would have prevented him from pitching again this season. The two-way superstar was hitless in four at-bats on Sunday and struck out twice.

Peterson advised a strategy of “mixing it up, moving it around, and trying to keep him off balance” when facing Ohtani. Let the game decide where I threw the ball to him, and my goal was to get him out of there as quickly as possible.

To paraphrase, “I felt like I was really attacking the zone today.”

Peterson had only pitched 15 innings across four starts since his return to the starting rotation on August 4. His season best was 4 2/3 innings against Atlanta last week, where he allowed 10 runs (four earned).

The lefty’s control wоes were mostly to blame for his inability to endure for long stretches of games. He walked 13 batters in just 15 innings of work.

Showalter acknowledged that Carlos Carrasco’s rotation status was in jeopardy after Saturday’s 5-3 loss due to his allowing five runs in only five innings pitched.

Peterson just needed 27 pitches to get through the first two innings, striking out two and getting the final out in the first inning by retiring Ohtani on a liner to left.

After the Mets’ starter made an error in a pickoff attempt after Luis Rengifo reached on an infield single, Peterson added another strikeout in the third and two more in the third, the most notable of which was a whiff of Ohtani with a 1-2 fastball with a runner on second to finish the inning.

Griffin Canning, the Angels’ starter, did not allow a Һit until the fourth inning, when Jeff McNeil Һit a one-out single and Daniel Vogelbach followed with a single.

When Rengifo made a diving attempt to get to second base on an infield Һit by Francisco Alvarez, McNeil took advantage and scored.

Peterson, who lowered his earned run average from 5.59 to 5.23, protected a 1-0 lead into the eighth inning.

However, with one out and two singles in between, the Angels loaded the bases.

Alonso dove to his left to field Chad Wallach’s strong grounder for an infield out as they tied the game, but Peterson finished the seventh inning for the first time this season to preserve the tie.

“In-game, that was one of the nicest experiences I’ve had all year. Peterson commented on how satisfying it was to advance to the later stages of the game once more.

It could have gotten out of hand in the seventh inning, but I thought he handled it well,” Showalter said. However, “he isn’t looking in the dugout for assistance.”

Over seven innings (104 pitches), the lefty struck out eight batters and walked three. However, in the eighth inning, Rengifo Һit a leadoff home run to right center off of Drew Smith, giving the Angels a 2-1 edge.

After Pete Alonso’s RBI double to left center off of lefty reliever Matt Moore knotted the game in the bottom half, Ortega won it with a bases-loaded single to right off of righty Reynaldo Lopez in the ninth inning.