May 10th 2014 -- Phillies 5, Mets 4

Ryan Howard’s 4^th hit of the game came in the top of the 9^th inning scoring Jimmie Rollins, the Phillies beat the Mets Saturday night 5-4. The Mets have now lost 5 in a row. The game was tied at 4 in the top of the 9^th. Kyle Farnsworth retired the first two batters to face him and then walked Rollins, yielded a single by Chase Utley and then the game winner by Howard.  Dillon Gee started for the Mets and got off to a rocky start. Utley had a sac fly and Dominic Brown added an RBI single in a 4 hit 2 run top of the first inning against Gee. In the bottom of the first David Wright clubbed a long homer  (2) to left center to make is 2 all. For Wright, it broke a streak of 136 at bats without a homer, the longest drought of his career.  In the top of the 3^rd, the Phils took a 3-2 lead on a long homer by Jimmie Rollins (4).  After that Gee settled down.  In the bottom of the 6^th David Wright tied the game with an RBI double, then Rookie Eric Campbell gave the Mets a brief 4-3 lead hitting a sac fly in his first major league at bat.   In the top of the 7^th Scott Rice came on and surrendered the lead yielding a RBI double to Utley to tie the game at 4.  Ryan had a huge night going 4 for 5. Rollins went 3 for 4 with 4 runs scored. For the Mets Wright went 3 for 5 with 3 RBI.  Farnsworth takes the loss he’s now 0-3.  Mike Adams gets the win he’s now 2-1.  Jonathon Papelbon notches his 11^th save. The Mets now stand at 16-19 on the year and 8-10 at home. They are now all alone in last place in the NL East. Sunday afternoon the Mets attempt to take the final game of the series.  Jonathon Niese (2-2  1.82) goes for the Mets, Cole Hamels (0-2 7.02)  goes for the Phils.