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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
NY Mets 6, Pittsburgh 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Thursday, September 16, 2010
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
Temperature: 70°
Umpires: Home - Todd Tichenor, 1B - Mike Everitt, 2B - Adrian Johnson, 3B - Andy Fletcher
Attendance: 28790

Mike Pelfrey tossed seven strong innings and drove in the go-ahead run as the New York Mets completed a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 6-2 victory on Thursday.

Rookie Lucas Duda drove in two runs in the first multi-hit game of his career and Angel Pagan chipped in three hits and two RBIs for the Mets, who pulled above .500 to 74-73.

Pelfrey (15-9) surrendered two runs on six hits while walking four and striking out four to earn his second straight win. The right-hander also made his presence felt at the plate, knocking an RBI double off Sean Gallagher to plate Duda, who had doubled off Wil Ledezma (0-3).

Duda entered Thursday with just one hit in his first 33 major league at-bats and flied out in the second before coming up with two runners on in the fourth and New York trailing, 2-0. Duda turned on a 1-1 offering from Charlie Morton and sent it into right field for the second and third RBIs of his young career.

Pittsburgh had a chance to turn the game in its favor in the fourth when Garrett Jones and Pedro Alvarez led off with back-to-back singles, but Pagan made a sprawling catch on the warning track in center field off John Bowker’s fly ball and doubled Alvarez off first.

The Mets added a run in the seventh and two more in the eighth to put it away.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Pittsburgh   NY Mets
Charlie Morton Player Mike Pelfrey
No Decision W/L Win
5.0 IP 7.0
1 Strikeouts 4
5 Hits 6
3.60 ERA 2.57
Hitting
Pittsburgh   NY Mets
Alex Presley Player Angel Pagan
1 Hits 3
0 RBI 2
0 HR 0
1 TB 4
1.000 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Pittsburgh 6 0 9 .188 15 6 2 4 0 0
NY Mets 10 0 13 .323 19 1 6 8 1 0