His performance, coupled with the Washington Nationals’ loss, moved the Mets (52-48) to within one game of first place in the National League East standings.
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New York Mets’ Curtis Granderson hits a fifth-inning, three-run, home run in a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in New York, Thursday, July 30, 2015. Shawn Kelley replaced Shields, and the former Yankee surrendered a home run to right by Granderson, making it 4-0.
Jordan Zimmermann (8-6) gave up eight hits and three runs in six innings. “I made a bad pitch, in the middle… then the home run”.
Leake (9-5) allowed four hits in eight innings to win his fourth straight start. “He’s definitely a great hitter and he’s been doing that for the majority of his career”. The Indians lost their sixth in a row, getting outscored 37-10 in those games. “D-No” put a good at-bat on Familia, and then Mattie came up with a big hit and I got a good pitch to hit”.
In the 9th inning Mets closer Jeurys Familia got the first two outs when a the skies unleashed a downpour that forced the officiating crew to stop play.
Backed by Ryan Zimmerman’s second-inning homer off Dan Haren, Scherzer (11-8) struck out six and lowered his ERA to 2.22.
Mets sixth. Venable in as proper fielder. Betts was hurt on the play and left with a possible concussion. Matt Kemp, with the OG run in the 6th inning, popped off a single right after Norris. Betts grabbed the ball on the run and managed to hold on while twisting his body and hitting the wall with his lower back, but dropped it when he landed.
Tampa Bay had gone 13 straight games without scoring more than four runs, and now it topped four runs two nights in a row.
Manager Terry Collins said he didn’t consider replacing Familia following the conclusion of the first rain delay, as he had only thrown four pitches before the game was suspended.
CHICAGO – DJ LeMahieu went 3-for-4 and scored twice, leading Colorado to a victory over Chicago. He struck out four and walked three.
Well, until the rain – and Justin Upton – arrived in the ninth inning. Cashner defeated the Marlins 3-1 last time out with the lone run plated on five hits covering seven innings.
Jhonny Peralta laced a two-run single to center to even the score at 8.
Martin Prado had three hits while Gordon and Christian Yelich had two each for Miami.
Norris was already 4-4 with a grand slam that brought the team to within two in the seventh.
New York Mets starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard (34) delivers in the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in New York, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. With Tuesday’s victory, the Mets are assured of having a winning record at the end of July for the first time since 2011….
If it was the last time this group of Padres was together this season, the send-off was appropriately lengthy.
With the rain coming down again, the first pitch from Famillia was a meatball.
Peralta went 3-for-3 while driving in runs in the first and third innings.
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Knuckleballer Steven Wright (4-4) pitched seven effective innings in Boston’s third win in 15 games. The Dodgers lost their third in a row. Just to be clear: the Mets had gone from being two strikes away from winning to needing a comeback in the ninth in a matter of six minutes. The reigning Cy Young Award victor retired the first 12 batters before Eric Hosmer’s leadoff double in the fifth. Then Murphy inserted three consecutive pinch-hitters in the seventh; two reached base before Melvin Upton Jr. singled, loading the bases.
