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Conforto, Robles, Mets top Phils, stay atop wild-card race
The under is 6-1-2 in Philadelphia’s last 9 road games and the over is 6-2-1 in their last 9 Saturday games while the Phillies are 2-8 in Asher’s last 10 starts.
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Collins, the Mets manager, used three pitchers to survive the seventh inning.
Pinch-hitter Michael Conforto walked against Edubray Ramos (1-3) with one out in the bottom half, Reyes singled and Cabrera, who has been playing with a strained left knee tendon, sent a slider soaring to right, setting off a wild celebration. “You use everybody – every means necessary you can – to try to win a game”.
The Mets (82-72) moved 1½ games ahead of the Cardinals in the wild-card race and could claim sole possession of the first wild-card spot with a Giants loss to the Padres later Friday. St. Louis lost and trails NY by 11/2 games. NY holds on to a Wild Card spot with the win and is tied with the San Francisco Giants.
“We’ve been through a lot over the course of the season”, Conforto said. “We played through it tonight”.
The win Friday symbolized the unlikely and piecemeal nature of the Mets’ playoff push. The 23-year-old allowed one run over 4 2/3 innings in his first major league start last Sunday, when the Mets beat the Minnesota Twins, 3-2. Scooter Gennett drew a walk off reliever Tony Cingrani to tie the score.
“He had five or six baserunners in the first couple innings, I just said ‘I don’t like the way this is looking.'” Collins said. Think Cabrera knew it was gone? The Mets took a 2-0 lead in the second, when T.J. Rivera led off with a single before Granderson homered off the right field foul pole. The home run Thursday was Cabrera’s fifth in 20 games this month and his fourth career walk-off dinger, and his three hits gave him a.342 September batting average.
Adrian Beltre, Texas Rangers: Two-run walk-off homer against the Oakland Athletics on July 25 (+0.89 WPA). I’ll back the home team who need wins…
“We’ve got Jeurys on the mound and now you lose the lead”, Collins said.
The Phillies had refused to quit, pulling within 7-5 on Darin Ruf’s two-run homer in the sixth against lefty Josh Smoker. The Mets came back from ninth- and 11th-inning deficits to win Thursday’s series opener 9-8 and trailed 3-1 after four innings Friday. “That’s pretty much the game”. Mets manager Terry Collins was already thinking about Yoenis Cespedes, who follows Cabrera in the order.
With veteran Jay Bruce in purgatory, Conforto is getting a chance to play on a more regular basis, perhaps the opportunity he needs to remind the Mets he was a valuable component in last year’s ride to the World Series.
The game-winning hit by Cabrera capped a wild final few innings. “You come to the park these days, you know you’re going to get in a game”.
It looked promising in the bottom of the 10th inning when Lucas Duda came in to pinch-hit.
Ynoa has never faced the Phillies while Hellickson is 2-3 with a 7.58 ERA against the Mets.
“We’ve been in so many close games that we rely heavily on the bullpen for most of the year”. “But “Helly” just wasn’t at his best”.
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Without Cabrera’s home run, and without the game-tying Jose Reyes homer in the ninth that set it up, the Mets could have been in freefall.