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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
NY Mets 11, Philadelphia 1
When: 7:10 PM ET, Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Where: Citi Field, New York, New York
Temperature: 84°
Umpires: Home - Marty Foster, 1B - Tim Timmons, 2B - Jeff Kellogg, 3B - Eric Cooper
Attendance: 42516


Mets 11, Phillies 1: Daniel Murphy collected four hits and drove in as many runs while Jonathon Niese scattered three hits over eight stellar innings as host New York handed struggling Philadelphia its sixth straight loss.

David Wright launched a three-run homer and Ruben Tejada and Josh Thole had three hits apiece for the Mets, who have won five of their last six games.

After Carlos Ruiz tied the game with a solo homer in the second, Niese regained the lead after he jumped on a first-pitch fastball and bounced it back up the middle to plate Lucas Duda and Andres Torres.

New York tacked on a pair of runs in the fourth inning before Wright launched a towering blast to center field for his 10th homer of the season. Wright now has a franchise-best nine seasons of double-digit home runs.

Niese (7-3) kept the Phillies in check by striking out three en route to winning his third straight start.

Vance Worley (4-5) matched his shortest outing of season after yielding six runs on 10 hits in four innings.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The Mets have won seven of the 10 meetings with the Phillies. ... Murphy, who recorded his second four-hit game of the season, has 14 RBIs in his last five starts. ... Mets CF Kirk Nieuwenhuis suffered a right hand contusion during batting practice and was replaced by Torres. ... The announced crowd of 42,516 was the largest in Citi Field history.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Philadelphia   NY Mets
Vance Worley Player Jon Niese
Loss W/L Win
4.0 IP 8.0
3 Strikeouts 3
10 Hits 3
13.50 ERA 1.12
Hitting
Philadelphia   NY Mets
Ty Wigginton Player Daniel Murphy
1 Hits 4
0 RBI 4
0 HR 0
1 TB 8
.500 Avg .800
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Philadelphia 3 1 6 .100 9 4 1 2 0 1
NY Mets 15 1 22 .405 11 8 11 2 0 0