The Pirates jumped out to a 7-0 lead against the Mets on Thursday, but the home team stormed back at Citi Field and won the game 9-8 without needing to use the bottom half of the ninth inning. It was the team's biggest comeback since rebounding from a seven-run deficit to beat the Braves, 11-8, on June 30, 2000. "Obviously," manager Terry Collins said, "that was not the game plan." The Mets scored three runs in the third, four in the sixth and two more in the eighth inning. "You need wins like this to show you can do it," Collins said. "When you play 27 outs, you don't stop until the game's over, you continue to make your at-bats count, you continue to make pitches. ... I think it means a lot to us. Hopefully this is something that we feed off of and continue to play well."