Major League Baseball
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NY Mets 5, San Francisco 4
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Where: Citi Field, New York, New York
Temperature: 64°
Umpires: Home - Ed Hickox, 1B - Sam Holbrook, 2B - Jeff Nelson, 3B - Jim Wolf
Attendance: 23698

Mets 5, Giants 4: Josh Satin drilled a two-run, two-out single in the ninth inning to cap a four-run outburst as host New York snapped San Francisco’s four-game winning streak.

Giants reliever Santiago Casilla walked two batters in the ninth and closer Sergio Romo (4-8) entered with one out and allowed an RBI double to Zach Lutz and a run-scoring single to Juan Centeno. Romo retired Omar Quintanilla on a short fly to right and was one strike from nailing it down before Satin ripped a pitch down the left-field line to drive in Anthony Recker and Matt den Dekker.

New York relievers combined for four hitless innings with Vic Black (2-0) pitching the ninth. The rally prevented San Francisco’s Matt Cain from earning a victory after allowing one unearned run and six hits in 7 2/3 innings.

Gregor Blanco hit a two-run homer off Aaron Harang in the third inning and San Francisco made it 3-0 in the fourth when New York right fielder Andrew Brown dropped Blanco’s two-out fly to allow Brandon Crawford to score from second. The Giants added another run in the fifth on Crawford’s run-scoring single.

The lone run off Cain was unearned and crossed on Satin’s sacrifice fly in the eighth.

GAME NOTEBOOK: San Francisco OF Hunter Pence struck out three times while seeing his seven-game hitting streak halted. … Harang struck out eight in five innings in his second start for the Mets. He allowed four runs (three earned) and six hits. … Giants 2B Marco Scutaro (finger) missed his second consecutive game and is unlikely to play in Thursday’s series finale.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
San Francisco   NY Mets
Matt Cain Player Aaron Harang
No Decision W/L No Decision
7.2 IP 5.0
6 Strikeouts 8
6 Hits 6
0.00 ERA 5.40
Hitting
San Francisco   NY Mets
Gregor Blanco Player Juan Centeno
1 Hits 2
2 RBI 1
1 HR 0
4 TB 2
.333 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
San Francisco 6 1 9 .182 18 14 3 4 1 1
NY Mets 9 0 10 .265 12 7 5 3 1 2