September 18th 2015 -- Mets 5, Yankees 1

Friday night at Citi Field, Daniel Murphy stroked a long home run in the bottom of the 6^th inning snapping a 1 all tie. The Mets go on to beat the Yankees 5-1.  It was Masahiro Tanaka vs Steven Matz. The Yanks took a 1-0 lead against Matz in the top of the 1^st. Brett Gardner walked and went to third on a single by Carlos Beltran. Former Met Chris Young then hit a sac-fly bringing home the Yanks only run on the night.  In the 2^nd Lucas Duda connected for his 1^st homer since coming off the DL, and his 22^nd on the year to tie the game at 1. In the 6^th Murphy hit a long homer off Tanaka just shy of the Shea Bridge to make it 2-1 Mets, for Murphy his 12^th on year. In the 7^th Wilmer Flores singled and pinch hitter Juan Uribe hit an opposite field 2 run homer, his 6^th as a Met and 14^th on the year and it was 4-1.  In the 8^th, , with one out Murphy tripled to center. David Wright walked. James Pazo came in to face Duda and threw a wild pitch on his first toss scoring Eric Young Jr. who came in as a pinch hit for Murphy.  Matz had a rocky start but got stronger as he went along going 6 innings allowing 7 hits the 1 run (earned) walking 1 and striking out 4. Hansel Robles pitched a scoreless 7^th, Addison Reed pitched a dominant 8^th and Jeurys Familia pitched the 9^th in a non-save situation. Matz gets the win he improves to 4-0. Tanaka takes the loss falling to 12-7. With the win the Mets improve to 84-63 overall and are now 47-26 at Citi Field. The Nationals and Marlins are tied in Washington, the Mets currently lead the Nats by 8 ½ games.  If the Nats lose, their lead will be 9 games. Saturday afternoon is game 2 of the series; Noah Syndergaard (8-6 3.20) goes for the Mets, Michael Pineda (10-8 4.25)