August 31st 2014 -- Mets 6, Phillies 5

Sunday afternoon in Queens, Anthony Recker hit a three run homer (5) to snap a 2 all tie, the Mets beat the Phillies 6-5.  Dillon Gee started for the Mets and the Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the top of the 4^th on a RBI double by Ryan Howard.  The Mets took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the 5^th on a RBI double by Matt den Dekker and an RBI single by David Wright. The Phils tied the game at 2 in the 6^th when Ryan Howard clubbed a solo homer his 20^th on the year. But in the bottom of the 6^th Recker connected for the three run blast to give the Mets the lead for good.  The Phils made a game of it with an RBI single by Jimmy Rollins in the 7^th and a solo homer by Domonic Brown (8) in the 8^th.  Brown went 4 for 4 on the day with the homer.  The Mets took a 6-4 lead in the 8^th when Dilson Herrera hit a seeing eye single up the middle with the infield in to score Kirk Nieuwenhuis ( For Herrera, his first ML RBI) Wilmer Flores went 3 for 4 and had a few sparklers in the field for the Mets; Wright added two hits as well. Gee gets the win improving to 6-6 going 6 innings allowing 7 hits 3 runs (all earned) walking 3 and striking out 7. Jeurys Familia gave up the solo dinger to Brown in the 8^th. Jenrry Mejia pitched the 9^th for this 21^st save, but did allow an RBI single to Grady Sizemore to make it a 1 run game.  AJ Burnett takes the loss for the Phils; he falls to 7-15. The Mets take 2 of 3 from the Phillies.  The Mets are 64-73 on the year and 33-35 at home. Next up the Mets start a 6 game road swing.  Labor Day afternoon is the first of 3 in Miami. Zach Wheeler (9-9 3.44) goes for the Mets, Henderson Alvarez (10-6  2.75) goes for the Fish.