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The Mets wound up losing their fourth straight game, falling to the Colorado Rockies 7-2 Saturday.
Daniel Descalso had two RBI singles for the Rockies, who had won five in a row and nine of 10. In those 10 games, Rockies starters have a 2.06 ERA. However, the Cubs were able to avenge the past losses earlier in the season and previous year in the National League Championship Series.
The Mets (54-50) won for just the second time in the last seven games to remain 2 1/2 games behind the Miami Marlins in the race for the National League’s second wild card, but it may have been a costly victory.
“I can’t control it”, said d’Arnaud, who didn’t play Sunday. “Really proud of our guys”. “We talked about playing every game like it’s Game 7, coming out of the break, and that’s what they are doing”.
“It’s huge for us, especially for our starting staff, and we just have to keep it rolling and see what we can do”, Bettis said.
“Yeah, I think so. Then I will get back to gripping the bat”. He hit a deep fly ball to center field and Tony Wolters scored after tagging up from third, giving the Rockies a 4-3 lead.
“It’s been kind of a odd year with the injury bug”, Walker said.
Alejandro De Aza and rookie Brandon Nimmo each contributed a run-scoring single as the third-place Mets finally generated some offense – and a little momentum heading into this week’s Subway Series against the retooling Yankees. The good news was that X-rays were negative. Story was escorted off the field by Weiss and head trainer Keith Dugger after he unsuccessfully dived for Justin Ruggiano’s one-out groundball single. He was replaced by Cristhian Adames.
Cespedes didn’t play Sunday and Collins said he would like to see if he could get Cespedes through the next four games so he can serve as the designated hitter for five straight games in American League parks from August 3-7. “He’s going to be sore tomorrow and we will see if it balloons up”.
Cabrera was on first base when Neil Walker tripled off the right field wall.
Rockies right-hander Chad Bettis gave up three runs on five hits and two walks while striking out eight over six innings. Story, who began the day leading the NL with 27 home runs, said his goal is to return to the lineup Tuesday at home against the Dodgers. “The beginning of my career wasn’t easy, but as soon as I got here I had really good coaches”. But as we know, sometimes two weeks leads to three and a half and now you’re talking about September 1st.
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De La Rosa turned in the 19th quality start by a Colorado pitcher in July, tying the team record for a month set in June 2009. The win, was DLR’s 85 in a Rockies uniform and could be his last. Before that, the Mets took 11 straight from Colorado – including a 7-0 mark last season. He already has two home runs, along with four runs and three RBI’s. LeMahieu finished the evening with three RBIs.
