5/28/14

May 28th 2014 -- Mets 5, Pirates 0

Wednesday afternoon in a matinee at Citi Field, The Mets with the aid of a pair of errors, wild pitches and the long ball beat the Pirates 5-0. The Mets take two out of three from the Bucs. In the bottom of the 2nd Lucas Duda walked, advanced to second on a wild pitch by Charlie Morton, went to third on a grounder by Ruben Tejada and scored on another wild pitch by Morton to make it 1-0.  In the second Daniel Murphy was safe at first on a throwing error by Pedro Alvarez and then missed throw by Jody Mercer at 2nd landed Murph on 3rd with what Mets announcer Gary Cohen called a “Little League Triple”. David Wright singled scoring Murphy to make it 2-zip.  In the 6th Wright connected off Morton for a solo homer (4) to make it 3-0. Lucas Duda gave the Mets the 5 run win with a two run homer (7) in the bottom of the 8th, all this in support of Bartolo Colon who was masterful as he went 7 1/3 scoreless allowing just 5 hits while tossing 121 pitches, walking just 1 and striking out a season high 9. Colon got the win he improves to 4-5. It the top of the 6th Colon reached career strikeout 2000 when he struck out Ike Davis looking. Morton falls to 1-7. Jeurrys Familia got the last two outs of the 8th and finished the ninth for the save. His 1st on the year. In the bottom of the 8th, Familia also got his first major league hit. The Mets have now won 2 straight and stand at 24-28 on the year and 13-17 at home. Thursday the Mets travel south to start a 5 game weekend series in Philadelphia which includes a make up game Monday from a rain out on April 30th.  Zach Wheeler (1-5  4.63) goes for the Mets, David Buchanan (1-0  3.60) goes for the Phillies.  

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