Major League Baseball
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NY Mets 3, Colorado 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Monday, September 8, 2014
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
Temperature: 71°
Umpires: Home - Manny Gonzalez, 1B - Jim Reynolds, 2B - Fieldin Culbreth, 3B - Brian Knight
Attendance: 21710

Mets 3, Rockies 2: Curtis Granderson tripled home the tying run and scored on Wilmer Flores' sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning as host New York snapped Colorado's four-game winning streak.

Travis d'Arnaud led off the ninth with a double to left field off former Met LaTroy Hawkins (3-3) and Granderson followed with a triple up the alley in right-center before Flores lofted a fly ball to center to plate Granderson and make a winner of reliever Carlos Torres (7-5). Lucas Duda recorded an RBI double and David Wright doubled and tripled as New York posted its sixth walk-off victory of the season.

Nolan Arenado and Michael Cuddyer belted solo homers while Josh Rutledge and DJ LeMahieu added two hits apiece for Colorado, which fell to a major league-worst 20-50 on the road. The Rockies wasted six strong innings from Jordan Lyles, who gave up one run on three hits.

Duda, mired in a 6-for-44 rut over his previous 12 games, put the Mets on top in the first frame with a two-out double into the right-field corner that plated Kirk Nieuwenhuis, who had reached on a walk. Cuddyer tied it in the second with a bullet into the seats in left in his first at-bat since coming off the 15-day disabled list.

Colorado had runners aboard in every inning and wasted leadoff doubles by Corey Dickerson in the third and LeMahieu in the seventh before breaking the 1-1 deadlock against reliever Vic Black in the eighth. Arenado led off the frame by crushing a hanging breaking ball down the left-field line for his fourth blast in five games and 18th on the season.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Mets starter Jon Niese struck out seven while yielding one run and eight hits in 6 2/3 innings. ... LeMahieu extended his hitting streak to seven games with his fourth multi-hit performance in that span. ... Black, who also came off the disabled list Monday and made his first appearance since Aug. 23, surrendered his first homer since June 5.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Colorado   NY Mets
Jordan Lyles Player Jon Niese
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 6.2
4 Strikeouts 7
3 Hits 8
1.50 ERA 1.35
Hitting
Colorado   NY Mets
Josh Rutledge Player David Wright
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 5
.667 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Colorado 9 2 17 .265 14 9 2 2 1 1
NY Mets 6 0 14 .200 10 6 3 2 0 0