New York Mets designated hitter Jesse Winker was impressed to learn his team recorded no strikeouts in 44 plate appearances during Friday night's 12-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLCS.

Winker credited hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez as well as Mets batters Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo and Pete Alonso for the feat.

"I just heard that, that's incredible," Winker said in a postgame interview at Citi Field. "We had a great game plan going into it, so shout out Barnesy and Chavey. Francisco and Nimmo and Pete really set the tone in the first inning."

The Mets recorded 14 hits, five walk and three hit batters with no strikeouts in the must-win victory. They are the first team to finish a postseason game with no strikeouts in 22 years, per Mike Axisa of CBS Sports.

The last team to manage the feat was the Los Angeles Angels, who recorded no strikeouts in 40 plate appearances during an 11-10 win over the San Francisco Giants in Game 2 of the 2002 World Series, per Axisa.

The only other team to record no strikeouts in a postseason game since the MLB expanded in 1961 is the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Bucs achieved the feat in 37 plate appearances during a 5-2 loss to the Dodgers in the 1974 NLCS, Axisa reported.

The Mets struck out in 22.4 percent of their at-bats during the regular season, but the top of the batting order set a different tone in the first inning as Lindor singled and Nimmo walked off pitches from Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty.

After Mark Vientos hit a fly out, Alonso stepped up to the plate to send both runners home with 432-foot homer that gave the Mets a lead they would maintain for the rest of the game.

Flaherty recorded the Dodgers loss with eight hits and eight earned runs in three innings. Brent Honeywell, who took the mound in the fourth, helped extend the Mets' no-strikeout streak by hitting Alonso, Winker and Tyrone Taylor with pitches before Anthony Banda was called in to finish out the game with two outs in the eighth.

Winker and his team will now look to ride Friday's momentum into another must-win game on Sunday as the series swings back to Los Angeles. The Mets need one more victory to push the Dodgers into a winner-takes-all Game 7 on Monday with a trip to the World Series on the line.