April 26th 2014 -- Marlins 7, Mets 6 (10 innings)

Jared Saltalamacchia lead off the top of the 10^th inning with a solo homer (4) off Kyle Farnsworth to snap a 6-6 tie. The Marlins hang on to win on Saturday night 7-6. The Mets got off to an early 5-1 lead.  The Mets scored 3 in the bottom of the first highlighted by a two run homer by Bobby Abreu (1) his first as a Met.  Earlier Eric Young Jr.  singled, getting on base for the 20^th consecutive game and stole 2^nd (13) and came home on a sac fly by David Wright.  In the top of the 2^nd Derek Dietrich’s RBI single got the Marlins on the board.  In the 3^rd Lucas Duda came through with a 2 run single to give the Mets the 4 run lead. But Jenrry  Mejia had a rare melt down in the top of the 6^th inning.  Mejia started out strong tossing  5 scoreless innings while striking out 6, but in the 6^th he gave up 4 hits and 4 runs getting pulled from the game only retiring 2 batters as 9 Marlins came to the plate. Mejia was hit hard yielding a 2 run homer to Giancarlo Stanton (7), an RBI single by Adeiny Hechavarria and left the game with two outs and two on.  Carlos Torres tried to save the day but on his first pitch gave up a 2 run double by pinch hitter Reed Johnson to give the Marlins a 6-5 lead. In the bottom of the 6^th Travis d’Arnaud walked, took second on a passed ball and scored on a throwing error by Hechavarria on an Omar Quintanilla infield single to tie the game at 6. Torres, Jeurys Familia and Scott Rice, Daisuke Matsuzaka all kept the Marlins at bay through 9 frames. Saltalamacchia won it in the top of the 10^th of Farnsworth, who takes the loss; he now falls to 0-1. Lefty Mike Dunn threw 2 scoreless innings striking out 4 gets the win. He’s now 2-3. Steve Cishek, who took the loss on Friday night, picked up his 5^th save. The Mets are now 13-11 on the year and 7-8 at Citi Field on the season.  Sunday the Mets look to take the series from the Marlins.  Dillon Gee (1-1  3.58) goes for the Mets, Tom Koehler (2-1  2.13) goes for Miami