June 13th 2014 -- Mets 6, Padres 2

Bartolo Colon had another terrific outing and Bobby Abreu went 4 for 4 with 2 RBI, The Mets beat the Padres Friday night 6-2. The start of the game was delayed almost 2 hours by rain. When it started Colon was a little bit rusty, he got out of a 1^st and 2^nd no out jam in the top of the 1^st. In the 2^nd he allowed a single by Yonder Alonso and then a two run homer by Rene Rivera (5) and the Padres led 2-0. After that Colon shut the door, retiring 18 straight up to the 8^th inning when Alexi Amarista doubled. The Mets scored a run in the 2^nd, two in the 4^th and one in the 5^th.  Lucas Duda went 2 for 4 with an RBI and Ruben Tejada added 2 hits and an RBI. Taylor Teagarden also drove in a run with an RBI single.  Daniel Murphy went 1 for 3 and extended his hitting streak to 7 games. In the bottom of the 7^th the Mets pulled away scoring 2 more on a sac-fly by David Wright and a RBI single by Abreu. Abreu had his first 4 hit night since 2011 and easily is the most production the Mets have seen in the clean-up spot in a while.  Colon went 7 1/3 allowed 4 hits 2 runs (both earned) he walked 1 and struck out 7. Josh Edgin came on and retired one and walked two and was relieved by Vic Black. Black got Carlos Quentin on a slow grounder to third to end the inning. Jeurrys Familia pitched the 9^th to wrap it all up. Colon gets the win he improves to 6-5. Andrew Cashner started for the Padres and just of the DL didn’t have it allowing 4 runs on 8 hits in 6 innings. He takes the loss and falls to 2-6. With the win the Mets improve to 30-37 on the year and 15-19 at home.  Saturday afternoon it’s the 2^nd game of the series. Zach Wheeler (2-6  4.19) goes for the Mets, Jesse Hahn (0-1 9.82) goes for San Diego.