August 15th 2014 -- Mets 3, Cubs 2

Friday night at Citi Field, Zach Wheeler continued his recent string of domination and Eric Campbell clubbed a 3 run homer, the Mets snap their 3 game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Cubs. The Cubs got out to the early led scoring 2 times in the top of the 3^rd.  Starting pitcher Travis Wood scored on a fielder’s choice by Anthony Rizzo to make it 1-0, Starlin Castro’s rope up the middle brought home rookie Javier Baez for the 2^nd run. In the bottom of the 4^th David Wright and Lucas Duda drew walks. Then after a pop out by Travis d’Arnaud Campbell hit a 3 run homer, his 2^nd homer on the year to give the Mets the lead for good. Wheeler went 6 2/3 allowing 4 hits 2 runs (all earned) he walked 4 and struck out 10.  Vic Black retired the last batter of the 7^th, Jeurrys Familia struck out 2 in a scoreless 8^th and Jenrry Mejia notched his 18^th save in the 9^th.  Wright went 0-3 with the walk and the run scored ending his 13 game hitting streak as both teams only managed 4 hits. Wheeler gets the win he’s now 8-8. Wood takes the loss falling to 7-10. The Mets are now 58-65 on the season and 29-30 at home. Saturday night is game two of this four game set Jon Niese (6-8   3.46) goes for the Mets,  Dan Straily (1-2 4.93) goes for the Cubs.