Right-hander Jeremy Hellickson will get the start on the mound for the Phillies.
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Mets 5, phillies 3 PHILADELPHIA Neil Walker hit a three-run home run and Juan Lagares also went deep to lead the New York Mets to a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night. In his last three starts, Hellickson has gone 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA and in two starts against the Mets this year, he is 1-0 with a 5.40 ERA. It was the 16th homer of the season for the NY second baseman, tying his mark for all of last season and drew loud cheers from the large contingent of Mets fans who made Citizens Bank Park sound more like Citi Field at times with their chants of “Let’s go Mets!”
“He lets his movement do everything”, Hellickson said.
Hellickson went six innings and allowed four runs and seven hits while striking out five. “If I say tomorrow that I want to play with LeBron James, am I tampering, too?”
Hellickson can make as many as three more starts before the August 1 non-waiver trade deadline.
“That’s how I feel every time I lose”, he said.
“Yeah it’s on my mind just when I see it on Twitter and talk to you guys about it”, Hellickson said.
“I think it’s still day to day”, Collins said.
“Like I’ve said all along, I love it here and would love to be here the rest of the year”.
Familia has saved 48 consecutive games to start the season. Herrera went on to score on Peter Bourjos’ one-out RBI triple, making it 4-1 Mets. Walker’s three run homer in the sixth inning blew the game open for the Mets, who needed to start the half on a good note. The Mets entered the half on a three game losing streak, but the schedule turned a tad kinder for them as they opened the second half in Philadelphia.
Neil Walker hit a three-run opposite-field home run in the sixth and Juan Lagares homered for the first time since May 28 and manufactured a run as the Mets overcame the absence of Cespedes, who sat out his third straight game with a right quad strain. Lagares started in his place. After going flawless through four innings and cruising through five, the upset of the night was Colon not making it out of the sixth inning.
Jeurys Familia, the last of five NY pitchers, worked a flawless ninth to post his 32nd save.
The veteran finally surrendered his first hit with one out in the fifth when Cameron Rupp singled up the middle on Colon’s 38th pitch.
Colon needed just 35 pitches to negotiate the first four innings, and in all fired 52 strikes among his 78 offerings.
The Mets entrusted Colon, who earned an All-Star nomination, to start the second half, and he cruised along before unraveling after an error in the sixth.
Stephen Strasburg threw eight masterful innings and bunted in a run and Michael Taylor hit a two-run homer that broke the game open as Washington beat Pittsburgh. While they are rebuilding with a young roster after finishing a major league-worst 63-99 in 2015, manager Pete Mackanin is hopeful to get a little something more out of this season. The 29-year-old starter was shipped from Tampa Bay to Arizona in the 2014 offseason and then from Arizona to Philly last November.
Cody Asche followed by drawing a walk to give the Phillies runners on first and second, but Colon struck out Galvis and Cesar Hernandez to strand the runners.
“He’s not the guy I wanted to see coming out of the break”. Outside of one inning, though, they just couldn’t generate the type of offense we saw from them routinely before the All-Star break.
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The Phillies tallied three runs in the sixth off Colon to whittle away at the Mets’ four-run lead, but it wasn’t enough in a 5-3 loss at Citizens Bank Park.
