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4/24/14

April 24th 2014 -- Mets 4, Cards 1

Thursday afternoon at Citi Field, Daniel Murphy’s RBI double broke a 1 all tie in the bottom of the 6th inning and Bartolo Colon struck out a season high 8 batters. The Mets take a 4 game series from the Cardinals with a 4-1 win. The game was scoreless until the top of the 5th when Tony Cruz hit a gapper between Chris and Eric Young to score Kolten Wong to make it 1-zip.  Chris Young then took a Lance Lynn pitch into the 2nd deck in left field in the bottom of the inning to knot the game up, for Young his first on the year and first as a Met. In top of the 8th the Mets iced the game scoring twice. Curtis Granderson came through with a RBI single to score Anthony Recker to make it 3-1. Granderson was thrown out in a rundown between 1st and 2nd. Eric Young then tripled and came home another RBI hit by Murphy. Colon was the best he’s been all year going 7 innings allowing just 4 hits, the 1 run, it was earned and stuck out the 8.  Carlos Torres and Scott Rice navigated a scoreless 8th,  Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched the 9th to earn his first career save (He had 1 save in Japan.) Murphy had the double, single and 2 RBI, Granderson after going 0-22 is now 2 for his last 4.  With the win the Mets improve to 12-10 on the season, now 2 games over .500 for the first time in 2014. They are also now 6-7 at Citi Field after taking 3 of 4 from the Cards.  Bobby Abreu made his first start as a Met in right field and went 1 for 3 with a double.  Colon gets the win he’s now 2-3, Lance Lynn takes the loss he’s now 4-1, it’s his first loss in April ever. He’s now 12-1 in April for his career. Friday night the Marlins come to town.  Zach Wheeler (1-2  4.63) goes for the Mets. Henderson Alvarez (1-2 2.63) goes for Miami. 

2 comments:

  1. We can talk lack of hitting all day, but I'm sure enjoying the fact that Mets are winning ballgames.

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  2. Colon... Dice-K... Abreu... Party like it's 1999...

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