Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - Jesus Feliciano tripled to deep right-center
to open the ninth inning and scored the game-winning run on Carlos Beltran's
sacrifice fly, as the Mets beat the Diamondbacks, 5-4.
David Wright went 2-for-4 with three RBI, while Angel Pagan had three hits and
scored twice for New York, which lost of the opener of this three-game set on
Friday, 9-6.
Francisco Rodriguez (4-2) threw a scoreless top of the ninth to get the win,
the Mets' first in five games against Arizona this season.
Juan Gutierrez (0-6) was on the hill in the bottom half to take the loss, the
club's eighth in nine games. Justin Upton knocked in three runs in defeat.
New York's Bobby Parnell started on the hill with a 2-1 lead in the seventh
and loaded the bases on a pinch-hit double, single and walk. Upton, who in the
third inning hit a sacrifice fly with the bases full, laced a double down the
right-field line that plated Tony Abreu and Chris Young for a 3-2 Arizona
edge.
Kelly Johnson then beat Ike Davis's throw home on Adam LaRoche's dribbler off
Pedro Feliciano, who managed to keep it a two-run game from there.
Wright's two-run double off D.J. Carrasco in roughly the same spot as Upton's
tied the game in the bottom half, and Beltran's fly to right in the ninth was
plenty deep to plate Feliciano without a play at the plate to earn the win.
"I'm seeing the ball good right now," Beltran said. "Right now I'm just a
little under the ball, hitting a lot of fly balls. I'm seeing the ball good,
just not getting anything to show for it."
Mets starter Hisanori Takahashi lasted six innings and allowed just one run on
seven hits and two walks while striking out 10. His counterpart, Barry
Enright, also had a quality start, throwing six frames and yielding two runs
on four hits and three walks.
Wright followed Upton's sac fly with a two-out, run-scoring single in the
bottom of the third to tie the game.
"The one thing you don't want to do right now with the Mets is to get in a
situation where you have to pitch to David Wright," Arizona manager Kirk
Gibson said. "He's locked in and is carrying this team right now."
Jose Reyes gave the Mets the lead in the fifth with an RBI hit to right.
