July 10th 2015 -- Mets 4, Diamondbacks 2

Friday night at Citi Field, Noah Syndergaard was dominant on the mound, while the Mets found their power stroke at the plate. The Mets beat the Diamondbacks 4-2. Most the scoring in this game came in the first inning. The Dbacks got on the board first against Thor. A.J. Pollack singled, stole second base and then scored on a sac-fly by Paul Goldschmidt. That was all for the Dbacks against Thor. After that, Syndergaard shut them down and coasted.  The Mets scored their 4 runs in the bottom of the 1^st.  Ruben Tejada singled, Wilmer Flores walked, then Lucas Duda hit his first homer since June 18^th, his 11^th on the year and it was 3-1 Mets.  The next batter, Michael Cuddyer hit a solo homer against Chase Anderson, back to back and it was 4-1, for Cuddyer number 7 on the year. The rest was up to Syndergaard, going 8 strong innings, only allowing 4 hits, the 1 run (earned) walking 2 and striking out a career high 13 batters.  He earns the win improving to 4-4. His ERA drops to 3.11.  Jeurys Familia pitched the 9^th inning. He yielded a run, thanks to a triple by Yasmany Tomas and a RBI single by Wellington Castillo. Tomas was initially called out, but was redeemed and awarded a triple thanks to a replay reversal. Familia hung in and earned his 25^th save. Anderson takes the loss falling to 4-3.  The Mets managed 10 hits on the night with 2 hit apiece by Juan Lagares, Cuddyer and Flores. With the win the Mets improve to 45-42 on the year and are now 30-14 at home.  The Nats lost to the Orioles Friday night. The Mets are now 2 games behind, in 2^nd place in the NL East.  Saturday afternoon it’s game two of the series. Matt Harvey (7-6 3.11) goes for the Mets, Patrick Corbin (1-0 3.60) goes for Arizona.