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    Saturday, April 27, 2024

    Mets fall to Phils

    New York - Pinch-hitter Carlos Ruiz came through with a tying homer in the seventh inning, Jimmy Rollins added a three-run shot and the Philadelphia Phillies busted loose late to beat the New York Mets 10-6 Wednesday night.

    Shane Victorino drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth and Philadelphia bailed out winless Cliff Lee to take two of three in the series. Ty Wigginton also homered for the Phillies, who improved to 3-6 against the Mets this season.

    Lucas Duda went deep twice, including a two-run shot off Lee in the sixth to give the Mets a 3-1 lead. Dillon Gee pitched 6 2-3 effective innings, but the New York bullpen was battered after he left.

    Rollins hit a long drive into the top deck in right off Ramon Ramirez in the ninth for his second homer of the season. Wigginton had an RBI double and Victorino a two-run single to cap a six-run inning that made it 10-3.

    Wigginton, a former Met, finished the series with two homers and eight RBIs.

    Juan Pierre singled off Jon Rauch (3-4) to open the eighth and went to third on Hunter Pence's single. One out later, Pierre scored on Victorino's liner to center.

    Antonio Bastardo (2-1) and Jose Contreras each worked a scoreless inning after Lee was called back for Ruiz with Philadelphia trailing by two.

    Lee entered with only eight walks in 51 innings this season, but issued a pair of free passes in the first. Daniel Murphy drew the first one and scored from first base on David Wright's double off the center-field fence, running through a late stop sign from third base coach Tim Teufel and barely beating the relay to the plate.

    Wigginton, batting cleanup for the fifth time this season, homered leading off the second.

    The score stayed tied at 1 until the sixth, when Scott Hairston doubled and Duda sent a drive to right-center. It was the first homer by a left-handed hitter off Lee since Pittsburgh's Pedro Alvarez connected on July 30 last year.

    Looking to win his third straight start, Gee pitched out of a jam in the sixth and retired his first two batters in the seventh. But ex-Met Brian Schneider doubled over the head of Andres Torres, who took a false step in deep center, and Gee was pulled after 110 pitches.

    Bobby Parnell came in to face Ruiz, out of the starting lineup for the third straight game because of a sore right hamstring. Batting for Lee, the catcher drove a 1-1 pitch to left for his eighth home run.

    Ruiz rounded the bases enthusiastically to calls of "Chooooch!" from Philadelphia fans in the crowd of 30,064. Boos soon followed for Parnell after he got out of the inning.

    Lee, hurt by poor run support all year, gave up seven hits and struck out seven in his eighth start of 2012. Before this, he had never gone more than three starts into a season without a win. The 2008 AL Cy Young Award winner was on the disabled list from April 19 to May 8 with a left oblique strain.

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