Conforto’s batting average is.217 with 11 home-runs and 36 RBI’s.
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Mark Teixeira hit a solo shot in the fourth for NY, which was swept in a four-game series at Boston last weekend and had lost seven of eight overall.
Yankees center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury (bruised right knee), third baseman Chase Headley (back spasms) and second baseman Starlin Castro (strained right hamstring) were all out of the lineup for the second straight game. Dellin Betances got three outs for his 12th save.
Bobby Wilson, Evan Longoria, Brad Miller and Corey Dickerson all homered in the third.
Colon allowed two runs, six hits and no walks while striking out six in 6 2/3 innings.
“When it left the bat, I was like, ‘Oh my God, ‘” Snitker said. When he hit a ground ball to the pitcher yesterday, he busted his rear end out of the batter’s box. He tied a career high with seven strikeouts.
Marquez (1-0) made his first big league start after three appearances out of the bullpen.
8 happens to be the magic number of hits accrued by the Mets last night, though starter Aaron Blair allowed only 4 of those – with 1 walk – over 6 strong innings while getting his first major league win.
NY remained tied with San Francisco and St. Louis for the two NL wild cards.
The Braves, despite being a miserable 61-90, won the season series against the Mets, 10-9.
Matz would follow Noah Syndergaard, who is lined up to pitch Saturday and September 30 at Philadelphia, which would put him on track to start the NL wild-card game on October 5 with normal four days’ rest. They beat the Mets for the second day in a row and are 6-2 at Citi Field this year.
Tehran only gave up five hits during his time on the mound. Rene Rivera made it 3-0 with his sixth jack of the season in the fifth.
Braves: RHP Josh Collmenter (2-0, 4.61 ERA) starts Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series at Miami. Granderson did own up to the error, however, even with Mets fans seemingly fed up with Bruce’s play.
Jim Johnson pitched the ninth for his 16th save in 19 chances.
The Mets looked as if they might be mounting a dramatic comeback during a three-run eighth inning Tuesday, when Eric Campbell – a.172 hitter who had not batted in the majors since May 30 – produced the second run of the frame with a pinch-hit RBI single.
Freddie Freeman walked and doubled, giving him a 40-game on-base streak and a 24-game hitting string.
Adonis Garcia extended the Braves’ lead to 5-1 in the seventh by blasting a three-run shot to off lefty Jerry Blevins. Weber has been fortunate to walk away without a decision in a pair of encounters with NY in his career, yielding seven runs on 11 hits – three homers – in 8 1/3 innings.Colon inproved to 4-0 with a 2.29 ERA in his last six outings on Friday after scattering three hits over seven innings in a 3-0 triumph against Minnesota.
Curtis Granderson and Jay Bruce’s miscommunication cost the Mets the lead in the sixth inning, when Braves slugger Matt Kemp popped a soft fly ball near the two outfielders, but neither went for the catch as both didn’t seem to lay claim to the ball.
Inciarte drove home the go-ahead run with a groundout in the ninth, then overshadowed himself in the bottom of that inning.
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Braves: RHP Mike Foltynewicz, out for more than a week after being hit on the left calf by a line drive, could throw a bullpen session in the next couple of days. It was the 11 start this season without a walk for the right-hander. They were so desperate for one win in three against the Braves that Collins went to Jeurys Familia for a five-out save, which the closer was unable to get. In his 15 games, one start and 1-1 record, Weber owns a 5.46 ERA with a 1.44 WHIP in 31.1 innings.
