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Major League Baseball
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Houston 7, NY Mets 3
When: 4:05 PM ET, Saturday, May 14, 2011
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature: 80°
Umpires: Home - Mike Estabrook, 1B - Chad Fairchild, 2B - Bill Miller, 3B - Angel Hernandez
Attendance: 31140

Carlos Lee homered and also recorded the 2,000th hit of his career to help the Houston Astros to a 7-3 victory over the visiting New York Mets on Saturday.

Bill Hall and Matt Downs also homered and J.A. Happ (3-4) pitched six solid innings for Houston, which won for just the second time in seven games.

Lee’s first-inning single off Mets starter R.A. Dickey made him just the ninth active player with 2,000 hits and 300 career homers. His seventh-inning homer provided Houston a 7-2 lead.

The Astros pounced on Dickey (1-5) for four runs and six hits in the opening inning. Michael Bourn led off with a triple and scored on Clint Barmes’ groundout.

Brett Wallace drove in the second run with a double and both Chris Johnson and Hall delivered run-scoring singles later in the inning. Hall and Downs both hit solo homers in the sixth to boost Houston’s lead to 6-2.

Happ allowed two runs and five hits while winning his second straight decision and ending New York’s three-game winning streak.

The Mets scored on Justin Turner’s RBI-single in the third, Daniel Murphy’s leadoff homer in the fourth and Jose Reyes' ninth-inning single.

Dickey gave up six runs and 11 hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Mets   Houston
R.A. Dickey Player J.A. Happ
Loss W/L Win
5.1 IP 6.0
2 Strikeouts 4
11 Hits 5
10.12 ERA 3.00
Hitting
NY Mets   Houston
Jose Reyes Player Bill Hall
2 Hits 2
1 RBI 2
0 HR 1
3 TB 5
.400 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Mets 7 1 13 .206 13 6 3 4 1 0
Houston 13 3 26 .351 17 5 7 2 0 1