NY Mets 4, Cincinnati 3
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, April 4, 2014
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
Temperature:
41°
Umpires:
Home -
John Tumpane, 1B -
John Hirschbeck, 2B -
Bob Davidson, 3B -
James Hoye
Attendance:
35845
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Mets 4, Reds 3: Lucas Duda hit a pair of two-run homers and Jenrry Mejia fanned a career-high nine over six frames as host New York held off Cincinnati for its first victory.
Curtis Granderson doubled and scored while David Wright added the other run for the Mets, who became the last team in the National League to win a game after they were swept in a three-game series at home by the Washington Nationals. Mejia (1-0) overcame a career high-tying five walks and yielded one run on four hits while Jose Valverde worked around a walk and a single in the ninth to notch his first save.
Jay Bruce homered for the second straight contest and went 2-for-5 with three RBIs for the Reds, who lost for only the second time in their last nine road games against the Mets. Mike Leake (0-1) gave up both of Duda’s home runs and five hits over 6 2/3 innings.
Mejia issued a pair of walks in the third and Bruce took advantage, sending a cutter back up the middle to plate Roger Bernadina before Duda pounded a first-pitch changeup for his first home run of the season. Duda struck again in the sixth, lifting a 2-1 sinker over the fence in right to stake the Mets to a three-run advantage.
Bruce answered with his own two-run blast in his next at-bat in the seventh when he drove a fastball from reliever John Lannan over the 390-foot sign in right-center to trim the deficit to 4-3. Kyle Farnsworth tossed a scoreless eighth ahead of Valverde, who allowed a walk to Bernadina and a single to Brandon Phillips before getting Joey Votto to fly out to left and striking out Bruce to end it.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Duda, who batted .178 with two homers in 129 at-bats with runners on last season, matched his home run total in such situations in his first two official at-bats on Friday. … Phillips, who had two hits, singled in the seventh to extend his hitting streak in road contests against the Mets to 27 games. … New York avoided dropping to 0-4 at home for the first time since 1992.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Cincinnati |
|
NY Mets |
|
Mike Leake
|
Player |
Jenrry Mejia
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
6.2 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
8 |
|
5 |
Hits |
4 |
|
5.40 |
ERA |
1.50 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Cincinnati
|
8 |
1 |
11 |
.235 |
21 |
11 |
3 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
| NY Mets
|
6 |
2 |
13 |
.200 |
7 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
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