MILWAUKEE -- Tyrone Taylor had yet to cross home plate and already Jose Iglesias was beating his chest. This was hustle, plain and simple. This was the Mets fighting fire with fire.

For the first four innings of Wild Card Series Game 1 on Tuesday, the Brewers had run wild at American Family Field, as their manager, Pat Murphy promised they would do until the Mets managed to stop them. The Mets never did. Instead, they found a different way to counteract all that chaos -- by engineering some of their own.

With two men on base and two outs in the fifth, Iglesias hit a sharp ground ball to first base, where Rhys Hoskins smothered it and flipped to pitcher Joel Payamps. Yet it seemed to happen in slow motion compared to the way Iglesias was sprinting down the line. In his rush to beat a sliding Iglesias to the bag, Payamps momentarily forgot about Taylor, who had rounded third base with aggression and was sprinting home. By the time Payamps realized his mistake, Taylor was already well down the line with the tying run in what became an 8-4 Mets win over the Brewers.

The Mets, who only just qualified for the playoffs on Monday, need just one more victory to clinch a spot in the National League Division Series against the Phillies. Game 2 of the Wild Card Series is scheduled for Wednesday at 7:38 p.m. ET.

If the Mets play that one with the same type of urgency, they could soon be touching down in Philadelphia. After Iglesias propelled Taylor home with the tying run, the Mets went on to score four more times in the fifth inning, taking advantage of a Jackson Chourio missed catch that put Taylor on base in the first place. Mark Vientos hit a go-ahead, two-run single and J.D. Martinez added a pinch-hit, two-run knock of his own to complete the Mets’ most productive postseason inning in 18 years.

Luis Severino, meanwhile, recovered from a shaky start to retire the final eight batters he faced. He allowed four runs in six innings for the win.