Yoenis Cespedes hit a 3 run homer in the 4th inning.
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The energy, so says the manager has returned. Neil Walker added his 23rd of the season to match a career high, giving the Mets four homers for the second consecutive night in a blowout of Philadelphia.
Phillies: RHP Jake Thompson (1-3, 9.78 ERA) opens a three-game series against NL East-leading Washington, his fifth major league start.
NY has produced 31 runs during a three-game winning streak and scored at least seven times in five of the contests during the 6-1 surge, including Saturday’s 12-1 rout.
Bartolo Colon and the New York Mets are beginning to play much better.
The Mets (66-64) failed to gain ground on the Cardinals (68-61), who fell to the Athletics, 7-4, today, as the chase for the second wild card continues for the reigning National League champion.
Kelly Johnson lined a single to right field, and Cabrera was noticeably limping as he advanced to second. The current hot stretch follows a 34-game stretch in which NY went 13-21 and scored three runs or fewer 18 times. San Francisco scored six runs on two-out hits and benefited from three Atlanta errors.
“When Cespedes is healthy, he is going to drive in runs”, Collins said. “It’s like (the Mets) know what’s coming”.
Collins expects Bruce to get another day of rest for the finale of the series with Philadelphia Sunday afternoon.
RHP Rafael Montero (0-0, 11.57 ERA) has the hard task of facing All-Star RHP Jose Fernandez (13-7, 2.91) in his first big league start of the season as the Mets begin an important four-game series with Miami at Citi Field. “He was the one guy that didn’t show any effects of previous year for the first couple of months”.
“The desire, the motivation”, he explained.
Then there is Cabrera.
NY also has posted at least nine runs in three straight games for the first time since June 2012 – and scored nine or more in successive home games for the first time since September 2008. Blackmon has 23 home runs this season and five multihomer games.
Right now, he is resembling Murphy and the Mets will take it.
“It’s certainly been an interesting year and frustrating at times”, Walker said. Cabrera has three homers over his last two games and is now up to 16 for the year, which is one more than his total from all of last season. But, as Saturday night’s game showed, when the Mets kept on scoring after Hellickson left and the unreliable, ever-changing middle relievers entered, the pitching staff as a whole has been an unmitigated disaster in August.
In striking out seven and walking two, Syndergaard improved to 3-0 in his last three starts with a 1.31 ERA and has given up three hits in his last 15 innings pitched dating back to the Mets 2-0 win at the Giants last week.
Flores reached down and lofted the next delivery over the fence in left-center. “Not thinking too far into the game”, he said. Montero will be recalled from Double-A Binghamton on Monday and last pitched in the majors on April 19. And who have have thought that just a week ago?
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Manager Pete Mackanin has seen a completely different team over the last five games as well, a stretch in which Philadelphia has gone 1-4 while being outscored 42-11.
