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The Mets won two of three from the Pirates to finish a 3-3 road trip. With the help of Baseball-Reference.com and some of our other research tools, let’s look at some statistical notes from this series win.

Stat of the Series: R.A. Really Awesome … Again
R.A. Dickey continued his run of fine work with an 11-strikeout, no-walk gem in a 3-2 win over the Pirates on Tuesday.

This was the second straight season in which the Mets got at least 11 strikeouts and no walks from their starter. Chris Capuano had a 13-strikeout, no-walk game in a two-hit shutout of the Braves last August 26.

The Mets did not have any such starts from 2000 to 2010. The last prior to Capuano was by Rick Reed on the next-to-last day of the 1999 season, one that put the Mets into a tie for the wild card spot, against the Pirates.

Dickey was the first Met to author an 11-strikeout, no-walk start without pitching at least nine innings since David Cone against the Cardinals, June 21, 1992.

An 11-whiff, no-walk game is impressive for a knuckleball pitcher. Tim Wakefield never had one in his major league career. Hall of Famer Phil Niekro had one … in 1967, also against the Pirates.

An Ugly Finish
The Mets blew a 4-0 lead and lost on Monday with Johan Santana on the mound in the series opener.

The Elias Sports Bureau had an amazing note on this: Pittsburgh had lost its previous 160 games when it trailed by at least four runs, the second-longest streak in major-league history, shy only of the 1906 to 1910 Washington Senators (178 games). Their last win in a game in which they trailed by four-or-more runs came on June 1, 2009 and was also against the Mets.

After having made only one error all season, David Wright made two errors in this game. It was the eighth multi-error game of his career. Wright’s multi-homer games lead his multi-error games by a 17-8 tally.

Santana gave up a game-tying two-run home run in the seventh inning. It was only the second time in his Mets career that Santana gave up a multi-run homer in the seventh inning or later. The other was to Gabe Kapler of the Brewers on April 12, 2008.

Elias noted that Santana’s team lost a game in which he was given a four-run lead for the seventh time. His teams are 83-7 in those games.

Day Tripping
Wright’s 1-for-4 in Wednesday’s series finale dropped his batting average to .399 through 40 games. It snapped a streak of seven straight games in which Wright finished with a batting average of .400 or better.

Wright finished well short of the Mets record for the highest batting average through any 40-game span for a Mets player.

The mark depends on what minimum you set. Via the Elias Sports Bureau, a minimum of 100 at-bats yields Lenny Dykstra’s .440 (44-for-100) from May 27 to July 13, 1986 as the best.

Raising the bar to 120 at-bats nets Mookie Wilson’s .414 stretch (55-for-133) from August 3 to September 22, 1998 tops.

Wright’s best is a .412 from May 1 to June 16, 2009.

More on this topic, Thursday.

A look back at the Mets, with help from resources such as Baseball-Reference.com
Stat of the Week

David Wright and Jose Reyes each had four hits in the Mets-Marlins game on Saturday.

They never had four hits in the same game as teammates with the Mets (2004-2011)

Pitcher Plunkings
In Saturday’s win over the Marlins, R.A. Dickey became the second pitcher in Mets history to be the beneficiary of a hit by pitch with the bases loaded. The other was Jae Seo against the Cardinals in 2004.

Dickey also extended his streak of not striking out as a hitter. Through seven starts, he had 16 plate appearances and no strikeouts.

In fact, of his first 32 swings this season, he only missed twice.

The Wright Stuff
In this season of impressive statistical accomplishments, Wright notched a first.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Wright’s .411 batting average through the team’s first 38 games makes him the first Met ever to carry a .400 batting average beyond the team’s 30th game of the season.

Cleon Jones was batting .411 after 30 games in 1969, but he slipped below .400 in his next game and never returned. He finished the season hitting .340.

A Grand Disaster
The Mets blew a two-run ninth inning lead in the finale of their road trip last Sunday, losing on Giancarlo Stanton’s walk-off grand slam. In what was a rough week for the Mets, we declare it the Moment of the Week.

It was the fourth walk-off grand slam the Mets have allowed since 2009, the most in the majors in that span. No other team has allowed more than two.

The Mets allowed their first walk-off grand slam in 1970 against Bob Bailey of the Expos. They’ve allowed 10 total since that season, matching the Tigers for the most in the majors.

It was the second time in the series that the Mets lost a game in which they led in the bottom of the ninth inning. Elias notes that the last time the Mets lost a pair of games in the same series in which they led in the bottom of the ninth or later was Sept. 3 and 5, 1992, against the Reds in Cincinnati.

Old Man Miguel
Miguel Batista beat the Brewers on Monday. It was the first time that Batista beat the Brewers since April 14, 1999, when he pitched his first career complete game as a member of the Montreal Expos.

Batista is the third 41-year-old to throw seven innings and allow no runs in a game for the Mets. Orlando Hernandez did it three times in 2007 and Tom Glavine also did it once that season. Both were slightly older than Batista, who is about six months younger than what Hernandez (reportedly) was at the time.

Batista has three wins for the Mets since turning 40. Glavine has the most wins by a Met in his 40s with 28, followed by Hernandez with 14 and Orel Hershiser with 13.

The next pitcher on the Mets' 40-plus win list is a good name though, one Batista can catch with one more victory. Hall of Famer Warren Spahn had four wins as a 40-plus Met.

Zack Attack
Zack Greinke and two relievers combined to shut out the Mets, 8-0 on Monday, combining for 10 strikeouts and no walks in the process.

Only once in their history have the Mets had a worse home shutout loss in a game in which they whiffed at least 10 times and didn't walk. That came on August 14, 2006, a 13-0 loss to Cole Hamels and Phillies.

Oh, Happy Day
The Mets wrapped up their series with the Reds by stealing a game, scoring the last nine runs to win, 9-4. The Mets have more wins in day games (11) than night games (10), despite having played six more night games than day games.

Wright had two hits, giving him 25 in 15 day games this season. His .463 batting average in day games leads the NL, with Daniel Murphy not far behind at .389.

If Wright keeps this up, he'll be chasing the Mets' record for batting average in day games, set by none other than Murphy last season. Murphy hit .385, breaking the mark previously held by Paul Lo Duca, who hit .380 in day games in 2006.

Vintage Metric of the Week
Ike Davis’ 4-for-62 performance at home to start the season brought back some memories of some home struggles of the past.

The most notable home slump by a Met takes us back to 1986, when, of all people, Darryl Strawberry, went 0-for-47 at Shea Stadium from July 29 until it was finally broken on Sept. 7.

The Mets would turn out just fine that season.

But our spin in the time machine actually goes back to 1968, which is the residing spot for the two players who posted the worst single-season home batting average in Mets history (minimum 100 at-bats).

Middle infielders Jerry Buchek and Al Weis hit .132 and .133 respectively that season.

We’re 35 games into the season and there are all sorts of ways by which we could evaluate how the Mets offense and pitching are faring.

But what about their defense?

Let’s take a closer look at the Mets from that perspective, using both some basic statistics, and some advanced work from Baseball Info Solutions (BIS), a company that charts games for major league teams and media.

BIS, a company based just outside Allentown, Pa., tracks every play of every game in multiple ways.

It compiles data for a stat known as Defensive Runs Saved, which measures a fielder’s ability to turn batted balls into outs and succeed at other skills pertinent to his position (such as having a deterrent throwing arm, turning double plays, or successfully defending bunts).

It also has a group of video scouts who tag plays into categories – about 30 categories of Good Fielding Plays (which they call GFPs) and 50 categories of Defensive Misplays & Errors (DM & E).

Thirty five games is not meant to be a predictive sample, but it does allow us enough to make a basic assessment of what has happened.

The Mets Have Some Imperfections
The Mets may have overachieved on the mound and at the plate to get to 20-15, but they’ve underachieved in the field.

The Mets rank second-worst in the majors in Defensive Runs Saved this season with their defense viewed as having cost the team 23 runs.

The primary reason for that is that they rank third-worst in Defensive Efficency, a stat tracked by Baseball Prospectus, that shows how often the defense turns batted balls into outs. The Mets have done so on 69 percent of batted balls against them.

An average team will have a defensive efficiency of 71 to 72 percent. The difference comes out to about one play per game. Over a full season, that adds up.

In 2010 and 2011, 20 of the 27 teams to finish with winning records finished in the Top 15 in defensive efficiency. The teams that finished in the bottom five averaged 70 wins.

The Mets have two issues that are likely going to force their pitchers to get extra outs this season, both on the right side of the diamond.

Lucas Duda is having a very difficult time in right field and the BIS video trackers have not been kind.

Duda has been credited with just one GFP and, after his miscue Monday led to two extra bases on a single that rolled by him, he now has eight DM&E.

A good rightfielder will have about a 1:1 ratio. Duda isn’t close. Duda also rates below average when it comes to deterring runners from taking an extra base on base hits and fly balls.

Those misplays play a part in his ranking fifth-worst in the majors and worst among right fielders with –8 Defensive Runs Saved.

The other problem the Mets have is in converting double plays, though this is something that has looked better to the eye recently.

Second baseman Daniel Murphy has made significant improvements to his pivots and flips in the last week, but still lags behind the best in double play conversions (situations in which he was either a pivot or relay man with a man on first base and less than two outs).

He has converted 13 out of 30. The average second baseman turns them at a rate such that he’d have converted 19. Murphy still has a ways to go.

But there has been improvement and sometimes it takes awhile for the numbers to catch up and recognize that.

Murphy had three misplays related to attempting to convert a double play in his first four games of the season. He hasn’t had any since then.

But They Have Two Gold Glove Candidates…
Two Mets have played very good defense this season. One has been heralded for this quite a bit, David Wright. The other is pitcher R.A. Dickey,

A revision of BIS’s scoring system gave Dickey the lead among pitchers in Defensive Runs Saved last season with 10. He has two already this season, putting him on pace for similar numbers.

Dickey put on as solid a defensive display as a pitcher can in Saturday’s win, with three assists and a putout, including perfect execution of a tag play at third base and the trapping of another runner off second after fielding a comebacker.

That earned him a video montage on that night’s Baseball Tonight and praise from analyst Rick Sutcliffe.

"When you don't throw 90 miles-per-hour, you have to do the little things," Sutcliffe said that night. "R.A. does just that."

Dickey nearly broke the Mets 49-year-old record for assists by a pitcher last season with his MLB-leading 58. He’s already totaled 14 in his seven starts in 2011, tied with Mark Buehrle and Justin Masterson for most in the majors.


Wright has been far better through the first 35 games of 2012 than he has been in recent seasons.

Wright has made six GFPs in the last four games, giving him 16 for the season. Saturday, he earned a Web Gem (and a GFP) on Saturday for his perfect throw from foul territory that retired Marlins leftfielder Austin Kearns.

His latest GFP was the diving stop on Norichi Aoki in the eighth inning of Monday’s win over the Brewers.

Wright’s Good Play/Misplay ratio is 2-to-1 (16 GFP, 8 DM&E), far better than his 31 GFP, 32 DM&E tally last season and among the best in the game. It's on par with the player considered the NL's best defender-- Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman.

The biggest difference from last season to this season has been in Wright’s throwing arm, which has been repeatedly praised on game telecasts for being sharper.

Wright had 10 throw-related DM&E last season and had two in his first six games in 2012. But he’s had just one in his last 26.

The one blemish for Wright is that he’s average when it comes to Defensive Runs Saved, as he has 0 this season.

The average Mets fan would likely disagree with that and something to watch over the last 127 games will be how that number bounces around with the visible improvements Wright has made.

The Shift is Working
You’re going to hear a lot about shifts this week, because the Mets are playing two teams -– the Brewers and Blue Jays -– who use it a lot.

But the Mets have also employed it a decent amount. BIS tracks defensive shifting with video review and ranks the Mets 12th in shifts used with 31 (about one per game), all against left-handed hitters.

BIS breaks this down further, noting that the Mets have used the “Ted Williams Shift” against a batted ball 17 times this season.

That’s a shift in which the shortstop or third baseman plays behind or to the right of second base, and the second baseman moves into shallow right field.

That defensive alignment worked in that it got outs on three of four line drives hit against it, and 11 of 13 ground balls.

The strategy has been to use it against the most extreme pull hitters, like Braves catcher Brian McCann, who had three ground outs and two line outs into the shift earlier this season.

Defensive Storylines to Watch
A few defensive storylines are still in development mode for the Mets. We’ll check in on those later this season.

1-- How the Mets fare in centerfield. Angel Pagan’s penchant for letting balls bounce off his glove and roll away led to the Mets ranking well below average in just about every metric related to this position last season.

So far, the combo of Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Andres Torres have rated about average, with the most egregious miscue being Nieuwenhuis’s misplay of a potential game-ending blooper against the Giants. He does rank among the leaders in the majors in Web Gems with three.

2-- How the Mets fare against basestealers. The Mets have allowed 30 steals this season, tied for fifth-most in the majors. They’ve nailed 23 percent of attempts, tied for seventh-worst among the 30 teams.

3-- How Ike Davis handles first base. Davis has rated about average so far in Defensive Runs Saved and Good Play/Misplay Ratio (11 GFP, 5 DM&E).

Davis’ trademark, his ability to snatch foul balls on the verge of going into stands, has happened twice this season. He and Travis Ishikawa are the two first baseman credited with a pair of GFP for such a play.

In-Depth runs every Tuesday

The Mets went an improbable 5-1 in the past week and won series from two teams that made the 2011 postseason. Let's review their accomplishments, with help from Baseball-Reference.com here.

Stat of the Week
Elias reports that the Mets' sweep of the Phillies was the third time in team history that the Mets won a road series of at least three games despite trailing in each of those games. The others were in July 1986 in Cincinnati and in August-September 1987 in San Diego.

Snake Charmers

The Mets won two of three games from the Diamondbacks last weekend, bouncing back from a series-opening loss to take the last two games.

By doing so, the Mets won their third homestand of the season, albeit this one a three-gamer. They won only three homestands over the entire 2011 season.

With his win Saturday, Johan Santana improved to 3-0 for his career against the Diamondbacks. He’s halfway to the most consecutive wins to start a career against the Diamondbacks. Roy Oswalt and Tim Hudson each started 6-0 in their careers against Arizona.

Santana yielded only two ground balls in the game, matching the fewest he’d allowed in any start as a Met. The only other Mets start in which he allowed only two grounders was Opening Day in 2009, when he gave up only two in a 2-1 win over the Reds.

In addition to getting the win Sunday, R.A. Dickey survived another game without striking out as a hitter. Dickey has not struck out in his first six starts in 2012.

Dickey and Dwight Gooden are the only pitchers in Mets history to have their first six appearances of the season, all as a starting pitcher, all be strikeout-free. Gooden did so in both the 1984 and 1987 seasons.

In the series finale, the Mets won in a tidy 2:16. It was the second-shortest game in the history of the Mets-Diamondbacks rivalry, surpassed only by a 5-0 Mets win June 10, 2006 (2:14).

The Mets ended this series not having homered in six straight games, far from the club record of 17 straight games without a homer.

Let’s go for a 'Spin
Elias reports that Jordany Valdespin is the first player whose first career hit was a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning or later since Miguel Cabrera of the Marlins on June 20, 2003 (versus Tampa Bay).

That earned our Mets Moment of the Week status and gave us a chance to look back at other Mets pinch-hit homer notes.

It marked the 27th time the Mets got a go-ahead pinch-hit homer in the ninth inning or later. The Mets didn’t have any from 2006 to 2010, but now have them in consecutive seasons. Scott Hairston hit one last July 8 against Giants closer Brian Wilson.


It was the first go-ahead pinch-hit home run to drive in at least three runs in the ninth inning or later since Benny Agbayani’s pinch-hit grand slam in the second game of the 2000 season in Japan, the first to drive in exactly three since a walk-off home run by Jim Tatum against the Astros in 1998.

Valdespin hit the home run against a split-fingered fastball. Only two other Mets in the past four seasons have golfed a splitter located knee-high or below for a home run. The other two were Gary Sheffield in 2009 and Daniel Murphy last season.

Lastly, Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon has now given up five go-ahead home runs in the ninth inning or later against New York teams. Two have been to Mets (Omir Santos in 2009 and Valdespin). Three were against the other New York team (whose players we won’t mention here).

Ful’Phil’ing Victories
The Mets rallied from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Phillies 7-4 on Tuesday. The 10th comeback win of the season marked the first time in team history that the Mets won 10 of their first 30 games in come-from-behind fashion.

The last time the Mets trailed AND were being shut out by four or more runs in Philadelphia and came back to win was May 15, 1999, when they rallied from a 6-0 deficit to win in Philadelphia 9-7. The Mets won that day despite Mike Piazza hitting into a triple play.

The Mets completed the sweep with a 10-6 win in Philadelphia in the series finale Wednesday. It gave them their first sweep of a series of three or more games in Philadelphia since 2006.

The Mets won all three games by at least three runs, the first time they’ve won three straight games in the same series in Philadelphia, all by three runs or more.

Be like Ike
Ike Davis shook out of a slump with a three-run home run against Jose Contreras. The homer came against a pitch that was middle of the plate, knee-high.

That’s the one spot he’s done well this season. Davis is 7-for-15 this season in at-bats that ended with a pitch located knee-high in the middle of the plate. He has a combined nine hits in all other areas of the strike zone.

The chart on the right shows Davis’ performance by strike-zone location this season.

Joshing Around
On Tuesday, Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton became the 16th player to hit four home runs in a game. There was a Mets connection to this one. The last home run came against former Mets reliever Darren O’Day.

Prior to Hamilton, the last three players with a four-homer game all went on to play for the Mets -- Mike Cameron, Shawn Green and Carlos Delgado. Two other “eventual Mets” also had a four-homer game -- Gil Hodges and Willie Mays.

There is a Mets pitching connection to each of the past four four-homer games.

Jon Rauch, then with the White Sox, allowed Cameron’s first home run while pitching for the 2002 White Sox. Green’s first of four home runs came against Glendon Rusch, who was a member of the 2002 Brewers. Future Met Jorge Sosa allowed the first two of Delgado’s home runs while pitching for the 2003 Rays.

The Mets have never had a four-homer game. They’ve had eight three-homer games. Six Mets -- Jim Hickman, Dave Kingman, Claudell Washington, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter and Edgardo Alfonzo -- hit three homers in a game and had at least one other plate appearance with a chance at a fourth, but failed to hit it.

Vintage Metsiemetric of the Week
The Mets won the last two games of the Diamondbacks series without recording an extra-base hit. They hadn’t won back-to-back games without recording an extra-base hit since May 1995.

The Mets have registered back-to-back wins without recording an extra-base hit eight times.

Our weekly time-machine trip takes us to the first instance -- June 10 and 11, 1968, when they beat the Dodgers, 1-0 and 3-0 in Los Angeles. The Mets combined for 16 singles in those two games, winning on the strength of shutouts from Tom Seaver and Dick Selma.

METS (11-8, third place/NL East) vs. COLORADO ROCKIES (9-9, third place/NL West)

Friday: RHP Chris Schwinden (2-2, 2.05 at Triple-A Buffalo) vs. LHP Drew Pomeranz (0-1, 6.75), 8:40 p.m. ET

Saturday: RHP Dillon Gee (1-2, 5.21) vs. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (2-1, 5.92), 8:10 p.m. ET

Sunday: LHP Johan Santana (0-2, 3.00) vs. LHP Jamie Moyer (1-2, 2.28), 3:10 p.m. ET

Rockies short hops

• With an April 17 victory against the San Diego Padres, Jamie Moyer became the oldest pitcher to win a major league game, at 49 years, 151 days. The victory, the 268^th of his career, tied Jim Palmer for 34^th all time. Next up: Mike Mussina and Burleigh Grimes at 270. Moyer actually has been Colorado’s best starting pitcher so far this season, despite the 1-2 record. He is the only Rockie to complete at least five innings in each of his starts. He received a no-decision in his last start despite limiting the Pittsburgh Pirates to one run in six innings at PNC Park. Moyer missed last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, which he only intended to have in order to throw batting practice to his children. But he felt so good while rehabbing, he opted to make a comeback. Moyer needs two strikeouts to match Luis Tiant for 36^th all time, with 2,416.

• Left fielder Carlos Gonzalez produced his first two homers of the season Tuesday at Pittsburgh, off Kevin Correia and Tony Watson. Gonzalez had been weakened by a battle with strep throat that caused him to miss three games. He is just starting to regain his strength.

• The Dec. 16 signing of former Minnesota Twin Michael Cuddyer to a three-year, $31.5 million contract marked the first time the organization had opened the purse strings for a major free-agent acquisition since 2000. That year, Colorado signed Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle. (The Hampton signing gave the Mets the compensatory draft pick they used to select David Wright 38^th overall in June ’01). Cuddyer, who grew up with Wright in Norfolk, Va., has been the Rockies’ most productive hitter so far with a .303 average, two homers and 11 RBIs in 66 at-bats. A first-time All-Star last season in the American League, Cuddyer has taken over the right-field role held by Seth Smith and Ryan Spilborghs in 2011.

• The Rockies acquired Marco Scutaro from the Boston Red Sox on Jan. 21 for right-hander Clayton Mortensen. Scutaro started 102 games at shortstop and two games at second base last season, but is being asked to play the latter position with the Rockies. He initially looked shaky, but has progressed since the start of the season.

• Two-time reigning Gold Glove winner Troy Tulowitzki already has matched last season’s error total with six. On a wet day, he airmailed two throws for errors. Three days later, Tulowitzki then had a second two-error day. Teammate Jason Giambi played fielding highlights for Tulowitzki to try to settle the Rockies’ shaken shortstop. The six errors are one shy of Starlin Castro’s NL-leading total with the Chicago Cubs. Tulowitzki has this to fall back on: He is a lifetime .328 hitter with seven homers and 15 RBIs in 116 at-bats against the Mets.

• The Rockies are targeting 110 starts for 38-year-old Todd Helton at first base this season. Helton does not play day games after starting night games. Giambi is the primary alternative. Helton’s 1,318 RBIs are the most in Rockies franchise history. He and Wright are the only two active players who lead their organizations in most runs driven in. Helton and R.A. Dickey were baseball teammates at the University of Tennessee.

• Closer Rafael Betancourt is 6-for-6 in save conversions. Matt Belisle (1.23 ERA) is now the primary setup man. Rex Brothers (4.05 ERA) began the season in that role, but is now more likely to handle the seventh.

• Left-hander Drew Pomeranz was the centerpiece prospect returned in last July’s trade of Ubaldo Jimenez to the Cleveland Indians. The 23-year-old southpaw was the fifth overall pick in the 2010 draft, out of the University of Mississippi. The Mets then selected Matt Harvey seventh overall. With the Rockies not needing a fifth starter the first time through the rotation, Pomeranz began the season with a start with Double-A Tulsa to keep his innings count in check. Friday’s outing will mark his seventh career major league start.

• Jeremy Guthrie was acquired at the start of spring training from the Baltimore Orioles for Jason Hammel and Matt Lindstrom.

• With center fielder Dexter Fowler struggling (.222), lefty-hitting Tyler Colvin has chipped away at some of his playing time. Colvin was acquired from the Cubs with infielder D.J. LeMahieu on Dec. 8 for Ian Stewart and Casey Weathers.

• Right-hander Juan Nicasio, whom the Mets will not face, is an inspirational story. He is coming back from a broken neck, which he suffered on a line drive off the bat of Washington’s Ian Desmond last Aug. 5.

• Defensive-oriented third baseman Chris Nelson is hitting .224.

• Jorge De La Rosa, returning from Tommy John surgery, is due to pitch in an extended spring training game Friday.

Matchups

Schwinden vs. Rockies (career: never faced)

Gee vs. Rockies (career: never faced)

Santana vs. Rockies (career: 2-0, 0.00 ERA)
Troy Tulowitzki .429, 2 K, 7 PA
Todd Helton .333, 3 PA
Marco Scutaro .250, 1 RBI, 3 K, 12 PA
Carlos Gonzalez .250, 1 K, 4 PA
Jason Giambi .227, 1 HR, 4 RBI, 1 BB, 7 K, 23 PA
Dexter Fowler .200, 2 BB, 3 K, 7 PA
Ramon Hernandez .190, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 4 K, 22 PA
Michael Cuddyer .000, 1 BB, 1 K, 3 PA

Pomeranz vs. Mets (career: never faced)

Guthrie vs. Mets (career: 0-2, 4.73 ERA)
David Wright .500, 2 RBI, 1 K, 6 PA
Scott Hairston .333, 3 PA
Ike Davis .333, 2 K, 3 PA
Daniel Murphy .000, 1 RBI, 3 PA
Ruben Tejada .000, 1 K, 3 PA

Moyer vs. Mets (career: 10-6, 3.94 ERA)
Daniel Murphy .500, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 6 PA
David Wright .415, 4 HR, 14 RBI, 1 BB, 3 K, 56 PA
Scott Hairston .000, 2 BB, 11 PA
Ike Davis .000, 1 BB, 3 PA

Last series results

Mets won, 2-1, at Coors Field, May 9-12, 2011 (AP game recaps)

Rockies 2, Mets 1: Chris Capuano was stellar on the mound and shoddy at the plate. Capuano (2-4) made one key mistake in 6 2/3 strong innings, hanging an 81 mph slider to Chris Iannetta, who broke a tie in the seventh inning with a low liner that just cleared the left-field fence. The pitcher's performance at the plate, though, left something to be desired. He struck out three times, including once with the bases loaded in the sixth. That's simply the way the night went for the Mets, who left 10 runners on base and dropped to 0-5 against Colorado this season including a four-game sweep at Citi Field last month. Once again, they struggled to come up with the timely hit. New York is 1-for-16 with runners in scoring position over the last two games.

Mets 4, Rockies 3: Mike Pelfrey hit a tiebreaking, two-run double and limited the Rockies to three solo homers. Ike Davis left in the fifth inning after he strained his left calf when he appeared to trip over third baseman David Wright's foot as the two closed in on a pop up by the Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki. Wright hung on to the ball near the mound for the second out of the fourth inning as Davis tumbled to the ground. Davis bounced up quickly but was limping noticeably. He remained in the game for the final out of the inning, then was replaced. The Mets had lost all five of their games to the Rockies this season but finally put together a couple of rallies against their new nemesis to counter home runs by Troy Tulowitzki, Seth Smith and Carlos Gonzalez. Despite the trio of long balls he served up, Pelfrey (3-3) allowed six hits over 6 2/3 innings and improved to 6-2 lifetime against the Rockies, who have lost seven of nine but remain atop the NL West. Pelfrey's outing was cut short by a nearly hour-long rain delay in the seventh inning.

Mets 9, Rockies 5: Carlos Beltran hit a career-high three homers and drove in six runs to help the Mets beat Ubaldo Jimenez in a game delayed more than two hours by rain. Beltran homered from both sides of the plate and reached all parts of the ballpark with his three two-run homers: straightaway center in the first, deep left in the seventh and into the right-field seats in the ninth. The switch-hitting outfielder became the eighth Mets player to hit three in a game, and first since Jose Reyes on Aug. 15, 2006, at Philadelphia. Reyes hit a two-run single in the fourth that chased Jimenez (0-3) and kept the Rockies' ace searching for his elusive first win of the season. He lasted just 3 2/3 innings in his shortest stint of the season, surrendering five runs and three hits while walking six. Relying on his curveball, Jon Niese (2-4) was solid for 6 1/3 innings while allowing solo homers to Jonathan Herrera and Todd Helton.

The Mets have asked R.A. Dickey not to make his charity climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. However, Dickey still plans on going, according to the Wall Street Journal. Though trips up Kilimanjaro are apparently not fatal or even that dangerous, the Mets have sent Dickey a letter saying they can void his contract if anything bad happens.

"If we thought it was a good idea, we wouldn't have sent the letter," Mets general manager Sandy Alderson told the Journal. "Beyond that, have we tried to dissuade him from going? It seems to me that the letter is enough of an effort to dissuade him, and he intends to go on nonetheless."

On Tuesday, a Mets PR person confirmed that Dickey is still planning to make the trip shortly after the new year, but said that Alderson will not elaborate further on the Mets' viewpoint. A message has been left for Dickey's agent.

Dickey, 37, is hoping to raise awareness and money for the Bombay Teen Challenge, which fights against human trafficking.

Dickey has one-year left on his $7.8M, two-year contract. He is scheduled to make $4.5 million in 2012. Given the Mets' money woes, it is unclear if they will be rooting for Dickey or the mountain during his adventure.

R.A. Dickey just got the chance to spend time with three fellow knuckleballers -- Phil Niekro, Charlie Hough and Tim Wakefield -- at Lake Lanier Resort near Atlanta.

Tweeted Dickey: "Over 700 wins between them, when you add me in you have a few more. ... Four knuckleballers together telling knuckleball stories. It was incredible."

Lets’ look at the 2011 season from a non-traditional statistical perspective, with some help from the resources of Baseball-Reference.com …

Team Year-in-Review
• The Mets went 77-85 in 2011. It’s the second time in team history that they won exactly 77 games, the first coming 20 years ago in a very disappointing 1991 season.

• These Mets scored 718 runs, 12th-most in team history, but second-most in a losing season. They scored 746 runs when they went 71-91 in 1996.

• The Mets had an-NL leading 309 doubles, second-most in team history, trailing only the 323 of the 2011 squad. It marked the second time the team led the league in doubles, the other coming in 1989.

• The Mets led the National League in walks drawn for the first time since 1992. It’s a category they also led in both 1962 (the lowest of lows) and 1986 (the highest of highs).

• The Mets finished second in the National League in on-base percentage (.335), their highest NL ranking since 1999, when they led the league. The only other seasons they were a top-two team were three pretty good years-- 1986 to 1988.

• This season marked the first 162-game season in which the Mets did not have a player play 130 games with the team. The Mets also were without 130-game players in 1972, 1981, and 1994. The 1972 season could also count- it was a 156-game season due to a player strike. No Met finished with more than 122 games.

Jose, Jose, Jose
• Jose Reyes is the second player in Mets history to lead the National League in most at-bats per strikeout (13.1). The only other player to do it was second baseman Felix Millan, who led the NL each season from 1973 to 1975.

Reyes also shared the NL lead in triples with Shane Victorino, despite not hitting any triples in his final 43 games. He stockpiled them early, setting a Mets record for multi-triple games in a season with three.

• Reyes was part of the second instance in Mets history in which they had the same pair of players steal at least 30 bases in back-to-back seasons. Angel Pagan and Reyes did so this season. Lee Mazzilli and Frank Taveras did it in 1979 and 1980.

Obscure Stat of the Season I
The most obscure stat on the offensive side was that Chin-Lung Hu went 1-for-20, finishing with an .050 batting average. Only two Mets position players had a worse batting average, with at least 20 at-bats in a season-- Sandy Alomar Sr. was 0-22 (.000) in 1966 and catcher Butch Benton was 1-for-21 (.048) in 1980.

The Best There Was
Chris Capuano’s 13-strikeout, two-hit shutout of the Braves on August 26 earned him a Bill James Game Score of 96, the highest in the major leagues all season.

Bill James Game Score ranks pitcher starts, usually on a scale from 0 to 100, with 49 to 50 being average. The rating is based on a pitchers innings pitched, hits allowed, runs allowed, strikeouts, and walks.

It marked the fourth time in Mets history that a Mets pitcher finished a season with the highest Bill James Game Score, the first since 1985 when Dwight Gooden’s Game Score of 92 against the Phillies on September 16 (a two-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts) tied him with Jimmy Key and Dennis Eckersley for best of the season.

Tom Seaver claimed top Game Score pitching honors in a season twice, in 1970 and 1974.

Dickey Deserved Better
R.A. Dickey’s season marked the 42nd time in Mets history that a pitcher finished with an ERA of 3.30 or better in 200 or more innings. However, Dickey’s 8-13 record and .381 winning percentage surpassed Jon Matlack’s .464 winning percentage in 1974 as the worst of those 42 seasons.

Golly Gee!
• Dillon Gee hit 14 batters with a pitch this season, two shy of the Mets record set by Pedro Astacio in 2002. Gee’s 14 hit-by-pitches rank fourth-best in Mets history, one shy of the three-way tie featuring Nolan Ryan (1971), Kevin Appier (2001), and Victor Zambrano (2005) for second-most.

• Gee won 13 games this season with a 4.43 ERA. That’s tied for the second-most wins by a Mets pitcher whose ERA was greater than 4.4 (tied with Orel Hershiser in 1999 and Tom Glavine, 2007). The only pitcher with more, Steve Trachsel, who had 15 wins and a 4.97 ERA in 2006.

Obscure Stat of the Season II
The Mets used 23 pitchers this season and every one of them recorded at least one decision. It’s the fifth time in Mets history in which every pitcher used in a season got at least one decision. The other occurrences were in 1970, 1979, 1983, and 1995.

R.A. Dickey took a no-hit bid one out into the seventh inning when Shane Victorino doubled. The Mets nonetheless won the opener, 2-1. It was Dickey's final start of the 2011 season. Because of Friday's rainout pushing Dickey's start back a day, Miguel Batista now is scheduled to start Wednesday's series finale against the Cincinnati Reds.

The Mets then produced five unearned runs in the third inning of Game 2 thanks to Hunter Pence's drop of Willie Harris' deep fly ball en route to a 6-3 victory and sweep of the doubleheader, which upped Philadelphia's losing streak to eight games. The Phillies have the longest skid since clinching a postseason spot since the advent of the World Series. Overall, it's their longest losing streak in 11 years.

Manny Acosta recorded both saves, the first Mets pitcher to notch two on the same day since Armando Benitez on Aug. 15, 2000 against Colorado.

Sunday's news reports:

• Darryl Strawberry says Jose Reyes should stay with the Mets. Of course, Strawberry is not in position -- nor is anyone else -- to know how close the Mets' offer will be to the top bid. "You don't know that when you're young but when you look back over it you realize, 'God, that was so stupid, I was so young, what was I thinking about leaving New York City to go to L.A. or anywhere?'" Strawberry said. "(New York) is the greatest place to play, the greatest fans. Are the expectations high? Is the media tough? Yeah, it's part of it. You just have to learn to live with that." Read Strawberry's thoughts on topics such as the Citi Field dimensions here. Read more on Strawberry's remarks about Reyes in the Record, Post, Daily News and Newsday.

• Reyes went 1-for-3 with a walk and steal in the opener, then sat the nightcap. Milwaukee's Ryan Braun leads the NL batting race at .331, followed by Reyes at .330 and Matt Kemp at .325.

• Newsday columnist Ken Davidoff says the Tampa Bay Rays would have been big suitors for Reyes before the trading deadline should the Mets have opted to deal the shortstop. Writes Davidoff:

The Rays, armed with one of the best farm systems in baseball, were prepared to give up significant prospects to rent Reyes and then recoup draft picks upon his departure this coming winter. You wonder how that would've played out for both sides. Sure, the Mets would've faced a mutiny by their fans with a June trade, but we know now that Reyes' sticking through the season hasn't quite filled Citi Field in September. And their future would look brighter with those Tampa Bay imports, and of course they could've made a run to bring back Reyes. As for the Rays, would Reyes somehow have managed to stay healthy? Or would that pesky left hamstring have flared, blowing up what would've been a blockbuster deal for the American League East paupers?

• Post columnist Mike Vaccaro says a full generation of Mets fans have now grown up knowing the Yankees to be the dominant team in the city. Writes Vaccaro:

So an entire generation of New York baseball children have been born, raised and sent off into the world knowing only one pecking order in New York City. The Mets have had their moments: 1999, 2000, and 2006, and even the agonizing Septembers that followed. There remain a lot of Mets fans, through their struggles, in the same way there always were plenty of Dodgers fans in the ’30s and Giants fans in the ’40s. But it’s a resounding Yankees town now.

• The seasons for Lucas Duda (headaches) and Jason Isringhausen (leg numbness from herniated disc) may be over. Meanwhile, Angel Pagan was out on Saturday, two days after striking himself in the back of the head with his swing. And Jason Bay needed to depart Game 1 with continued illness effects, which sidelined him the entire series in St. Louis.

• Dillon Gee's season is complete. He's the first Mets rookie to win 13 games since Dwight Gooden in 1984.

• Mookie Wilson has left the team for the remainder of the season due to a death in his family. Wally Backman will coach first base during the final four games.

• Read more on Dickey's flirtation with the first no-hitter in franchise history in the Record, Newsday and Star-Ledger.

• Andy McCullough in the Star-Ledger previews Mike Pelfrey's final 2011 start.

BIRTHDAYS: Former reliever David Weathers turns 42. ... Infielder Argenis Reyes, who appeared in 25 games with Triple-A Columbus in the Cleveland Indians organization, turns 29.

Eight outs from baseball immortality, R.A. Dickey's knuckleball got away from him.

His go-to pitch, the one that carried him through 22 outs and had him thinking of a potential no-hitter, flattened out. The crazy movement disappeared. His pitch hung in the air to Shane Victorino, who smacked a double to left.

The no-hitter was gone. The franchise now had officially gone 7,963 games without one.

In his last start of the season, Dickey flirted with a no-hitter but came up short in the Mets' 2-1 win over the Phillies in the first game of the doubleheader Saturday. It marked the longest Mets attempt at a no-hitter since John Maine threw 7 2/3 hitless innings in 2007, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Dickey ultimate received a no-decision for his efforts.

"In all honesty, I thought it would be a great gift not only to the fans but the organization," Dickey said of a no-hitter. "I felt like I had a shot today when I got out of the sixth."

Dickey's first six innings had all the ingredients that could have led to a special day. He had filthy movement, changing his speeds effectively and taking some spin off the ball, which induced plenty of soft contact. He even had the patented defensive gem that seem to accompany all no-hitters and perfect games.

With two outs in the sixth and Carlos Ruiz on second following a leadoff walk, Jimmy Rollins crushed the ball to right and Nick Evans raced backward. He said he had no idea whether he had a shot at the ball, but just ran as fast as he could to try and catch it.

"Nobody ever wants to be the guy that gives up the hit in the no-hitter," Evans said.

While he didn't do it in the most graceful manner, getting turned around in the process, Evans finally made the catch, tumbling down as he grabbed the ball for the final out.

"Every no-hitter somebody makes a big play," Collins said. "I thought that might be the play today and he was throwing so well and with such great command of the knuckleball, I thought this might be something special today."

Something special instead turned into a very good outing. Victorino's double with one out started a rally of three straight hits that eventually put the Phillies ahead 1-0 and had Dickey on the losing end of the game when he was pulled for a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the seventh. Those were the only three hits he yielded.

"I was really able to mix it up today and keep them off balance for the most part and just ran into that little bit of friction in the seventh," Dickey said. "Outside of that, I felt pretty good about the outing."

The Mets eventually rallied to leave Dickey with a no-decision. Like so many times this season, the knuckleballer received little run support, yet kept his team in the game. His 8-13 record with a 3.28 ERA is evidence.

Sparing a bullpen appearance in the final five games of the season, Dickey's season is complete.

"I have such mixed emotions about it," he said of the season, "because although statistically I felt like I held up pretty well [and] our team obviously made some strides, we have a long way to go."

WHAT IT MEANS: The Mets rallied to beat the Phillies 2-1 behind a go-ahead RBI double in the eighth inning by David Wright, but the team failed once against in its search for its first no-hitter. Pitcher R.A. Dickey was just eight outs away from Mets immortality, but could not accomplish the historic feat.

VALIANT EFFORT: Dickey took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, but yielded an one-out double by Shane Victorino that ended his attempt at glory. The lack of a no-hitter now leaves the Mets at 7,963 games without one in their franchise history.

Dickey pitched well in the game, as the Phillies rarely hit the ball hard through the first six innings, but his knuckleball failed him in the seventh. After the double by Victorino, Ryan Howard singled to center to score Victorino and Raul Ibanez followed with another single up the middle. He lost his perfect game in the sixth inning by walking Carlos Ruiz.

Dickey gave up just those three hits and one run over seven innings in his final start of the season. There's a chance he can work out of the bullpen in the final five games, but he will likely finish his year with an 8-13 record. His record is deceiving, though, as his ERA after Saturday's game is just 3.28.

BIG VAL: In a moment you probably did not expect to see this season, Val Pascucci hit a monstrous pinch-hit home run off Cole Hamels to tie the game at 1-1 in the seventh inning. He blasted Hamel's pitch into the left field seats to give him his first home run since he played with the Expos in 2004.

LINGERING SICKNESS: Jason Bay missed all three games against St. Louis and ended up being pulled from Saturday's game with continued symptoms from his illness. He was pulled between the third and fourth innings and was 0-for-1 with a double play on the day. It would be safe to assume he'll miss the nightcap.

REYES TRACKER: Jose Reyes went 1-for-3 Saturday and is now batting .330 on the season. He has temporarily taken the lead for the NL batting title over Ryan Braun. Braun entered the day tied with Reyes at .329 and has a scheduled game tonight against Florida while Reyes will likely sit out the second game of the doubleheader.

WHAT'S NEXT: The Mets don't have much time to rest as they face the Phillies in the second game of the doubleheader. It will be Dillon Gee (12-6, 4.48 ERA) opposing Joe Blanton (1-2, 5.30) at 7:10 p.m.

R.A. Dickey's chance to become the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Mets history is gone after surrendering an one-out double to Shane Victorino in the seventh inning of Saturday's game. Victorino doubled to left field and came around to score on a RBI single by Ryan Howard that gave the Phillies a 1-0 lead.

Dickey lost his perfect game when he walked Carlos Ruiz to start the sixth inning. The Phillies struggled all day to hit the ball hard against Dickey before Victorino smacked the double to left field. Jose Reyes and Nick Evans each made nice plays in the field to prevent hits before Victorino reached base.

Longtime nemesis Chipper Jones delivered a two-out RBI single in the eighth against R.A. Dickey and the Mets lost to the Braves, 1-0, on Saturday at Turner Field. With Philadelphia's subsequent 9-2 win against St. Louis, the Phillies clinched their fifth straight NL East title and the Cardinals fell 4½ games behind wild-card-leading Atlanta. The Braves' magic number is seven to clinch.

Sunday's news reports:

• Terry Collins says it would be difficult to envision the Mets without Jose Reyes and David Wright. "No, I cannot imagine it," Collins said. "I mean, not just with their skill, but the kind of people they are. You've got to have those guys."

The manager went on to wonder what the season might have been like with more health, which might have led to retaining Carlos Beltran and Francisco Rodriguez at the trading deadline.

"There's a lot of things that happened that we would have had to really play through," Collins said. "No doubt about it. But you know, I allow myself the freedom once in a while to be disappointed that we didn't get to put this team on the field the way it came out of spring training. Had we been able to do that, I think you have looked at a while different package -- completely different package. And I know every team says that that has injuries. But we have not put our team on the field one time, and this was a team that could have made some noise, no doubt."

Read more in the Star-Ledger, Record and Newsday.

• Steve Popper in the Record notes there really was no quibbling by players publicly or privately with Collins' assessment of the team after the manager's candid and critcial assessment of the team Thursday. Writes Popper:

It has nearly been a year since Terry Collins was introduced as the Mets manager and declared, "I’m not the evil devil that a lot of people have made me out to be." And his words have rung true as he has been a non-stop whirlwind of energy and enthusiasm, cherishing the days on the field after an 11-year absence from a spot on the bench. He has shed the reputation as a too-intense explosion waiting to happen. At least he had until Thursday when he blew up publicly, ripping his team for appearing to have folded up. But when he finally erupted, his team didn’t turn on him. There was no anonymous sniping and really little disagreement with his words. Even Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen took to Twitter to back up Collins. But there was really nothing to defend him from.

"I don’t think there is any question," Collins said of his players. "That’s a fact. I’ve got their back and they’ve got mine. I know that."

• Wright, discussing his string of eight errors in 10 games with Andy Martino in the Daily News, says: "You can kind of beat yourself up too much, and I think I'm in that category. I guess it's just in my nature to focus on the negatives, and what I could have done, instead of the positive. Having a short-term memory and being able to forget about it -- it would probably be the ideal situation, but I just don't know if that's in my DNA. I wish I could."

• Behind a 3-for-5 game, Ryan Braun (.333) now leads Reyes (.332) in the race for the National League batting title. Cincinnati's Joey Votto ranks third at .320.

• Savannah, which had been one strike from winning the South Atlantic League championship on Friday night, lost a winner-take-all Game 5 on Saturday, 7-3 to Greensboro. Angel Cuan, who had been at Citi Field on Wednesday to be honored as the Gnats' top player, allowed five runs (three earned) in 3 2/3 innings. Shortstop Wilfredo Tovar had two errors.

• Read more on the Mets' Saturday loss in the Times, Newsday and Record.

• Johan Santana is due to throw a simulated game on Sunday in his Fort Myers, Fla., hometown. The Mets' instructional league is now beginning in that city because there are few teams within proximity of the organization's Florida complex in Port St. Lucie.

• Jason Isringhausen, despite an epidural, still has modest numbness in his right leg, preventing him from returning to the mound. The issue stems from a herniated disc in his lower back.

• Josh Thole pledges an offseason dedicated to improvement behind the plate. Writes Mike Puma in the Post:

Thole says his priorities were not in the right place last winter. "Last year I spent way too much time in the gym," Thole said. "At this point in my career it's not all about coming into camp all shredded and jacked up, strong, it's about being ready to play baseball the right way. I've always caught bullpen (sessions) in the offseason starting in January, but it's not about the repetition of catching the ball. It's beneficial for me to block balls. That is stuff I can do on my own, but it's something I really have to take focus on more than my weight training this year."

BIRTHDAY: Scott Holman, who pitched 43 games for the Mets in the early '80s, was born on this date in 1958.

R.A. Dickey said the game-deciding knuckleball he threw to Chipper Jones with runners on the corners and two out in the eighth inning was a quality pitch. And Jones happens to be a quality batter who singled to drive in the lone run in the Mets' 1-0 loss to the Braves on Saturday afternoon at Turner Field.

"I threw a good one to Chipper, and he did what a Hall of Famer does -- a groundball up the middle. And that was a good knuckleball," Dickey said.

Said Terry Collins: "He made a good pitch on Chipper, and he sticks his bat out and hits a ball up the middle."

Dickey had walked both baserunners preceding Jones' at-bat. So while Collins said it was considered to walk Jones too to bring up Dan Uggla with the bases loaded, it ultimately was decided against. Uggla was 0-for-21 in his career against Dickey.

"We thought about it, but with the fact he walked two guys previous to that, now we either stay and take our chances or we go to the pen if we think he's tired," Collins said.

Dickey, by the way, spoke with former knuckleballer Phil Niekro after the game. Niekro lives about 45 minutes from Turner Field, but is not a regular attendee at Braves games.

"I think he just saw me sitting there, ruminating over the loss," Dickey said about their postgame chat. "He just offered some words of encouragement, and I appreciated it. I worked with him the offseason before 2009. I came down here to work with him for a day. So we had a relationship. We've been in contact off and on ever since."

Dickey's lament was failing to lay down a sacrifice bunt in the third inning after Josh Thole and Ruben Tejada consecutively reached against Tim Hudson to open the inning. Dickey struck out in all three of his plate appearances.

"Visually it was tough for me," Dickey said. "It looked like a strike the whole way and then it would disappear down for me. I was lost up there from a bunting standpoint today, and there's no excuse for that."

WHAT IT MEANS: R.A. Dickey and Tim Hudson took a scoreless duel late into Saturday’s game, when the Braves finally got on the scoreboard courtesy of old nemesis Chipper Jones.

Jones’ two-out RBI single with runners on the corners in the eighth broke a tie and sliced the Braves’ magic number to clinch the wild card to eight games.

Jones is third all time in RBIs against the Mets with 153, trailing only Willie Stargell (182) and Mike Schmidt (162). It was Jones’ 39^th go-ahead hit against the Mets, trailing only Stargell with 40, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

Jason Heyward opened the bottom of the eighth with a walk and was bunted to second base by Jose Constanza, who was pinch-hitting for Hudson. After Michael Bourn’s groundout advanced Heyward to third, Martin Prado walked, bringing Jones to the plate.

Dan Uggla, the on-deck batter with Jones due up, had been 0-for-21 lifetime against Dickey.

Hudson limited the Mets to two hits and two walks in eight scoreless innings while striking out a season-high 10 in a 113-pitch effort.

Despite dropping to 8-13, it nonetheless was the 11^th straight quality start by Dickey, the longest active streak in the majors. Dickey became the Mets' first 13-game loser since Tom Glavine in 2005. It was the 108th 1-0 loss in franchise history.

NEAR-MISSES: The teams traded threats in the seventh. Hudson struck out Ruben Tejada in the top half to strand two runners on base. With Jones, who doubled, eventually on third base with two out in the bottom half, Dickey intentionally walked Freddie Freeman. Alex Gonzalez then grounded into a fielder’s choice on the next pitch.

REYES TRACKER: Jose Reyes went 0-for-3 with a walk as his average dipped to .332. Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun, the runner-up in the National League, entered a night game at Cincinnati at .330.

WHAT’S NEXT: The Mets conclude their season series with Atlanta as Dillon Gee (12-6, 4.37 ERA) opposes Braves right-hander Brandon Beachy (7-2, 3.43). The Braves lead the season series 9-8.