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 2^nd 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 2^nd landed Murph on 3^rd with what Mets announcer Gary Cohen called a “Little League Triple”. David Wright singled scoring Murphy to make it 2-zip.  In the 6^th 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 6^th 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 8^th and finished the ninth for the save. His 1^st on the year. In the bottom of the 8^th, 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 30^th.  Zach Wheeler (1-5  4.63) goes for the Mets, David Buchanan (1-0  3.60) goes for the Phillies.