LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman’s fly ball screamed through the air, and Brandon Nimmo, who’d been playing in to cut off a potential winning run at home, took off for the warning track.

When he looked up, the ball was over his right shoulder and in the time it took for him to see how much room he had before he crashed into the wall, “it had moved to my other shoulder” and drifted about 15 feet, Nimmo said. “I have a lot of experience that told me [what] reactions [to have] for these kinds of things and … I was very surprised to find it on my other shoulder...

"By that time, there's not enough time to recover."

That’s the latest installment of this fierce tug-of-war between the Dodgers and Mets that, on Tuesday, ended with the Dodgers coming from behind to win, 6-5, in 10 innings at Dodger Stadium. It’s the second night in a row that the Dodgers have scored the tying run in the ninth, though it went the Mets' way on Monday.

Max Muncy hit a game-tying homer off Huascar Brazoban in the ninth — his second of the game — after the Mets had climbed out of a 4-1 first-inning hole. Tanner Scott set down the Mets in order in the 10th, and with one out and two on against Jose Butto in the bottom of the inning, Freeman hit what seemed a catchable ball to Nimmo. Instead, it hit off the base of the wall to win it.

The Mets didn’t have Edwin Diaz after he’d pitched the day prior and were otherwise short on relief. Brazoban threw 31 pitches Monday.

Of the five games these two teams have played in the last week and a half, three have gone to extra innings.

“We got down and we punched back,” Carlos Mendoza said. “Then we get to the ninth inning and they punch back … You’ve got so many superstars performing at their best."

The Dodgers went up 4-1 against a shaky Tylor Megill in the first inning, but the Mets scored two on Juan Soto’s homer in the third and two more in the fifth, that last frame keyed by Pete Alonso’s tying RBI double, and a hustle grounder by Nimmo that was first deemed an inning-ending out, but later reversed, scoring Starling Marte from third with the go-ahead run.

After that rocky first, Megill settled down, allowing four runs, four hits and a walk with seven strikeouts over six innings.

Down 5-4 in the eighth, the Dodgers had the tying and go-ahead runners in scoring position with no outs against Reed Garrett.

Freeman, though, struck out swinging on a sinker near his shoe tops. Teoscar Hernandez hit a grounder to the grass in front of third that was fielded by a newly recalled Ronny Mauricio, who initiated a rundown that cut down Shohei Ohtani near the plate. Garrett then got Will Smith to swing feebly at a 1-and-2 sweeper out of the strike zone to end the threat.

“It’s been a playoff-type atmosphere,” Nimmo said. “It’s been rocking. It’s been a lot of fun. So it’s unfortunate when a game like that ends on a play like that because it’s been so good, and such high intensity and good baseball, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.”

Especially, it seems, between these two teams.