New York Mets vs Philadelphia Phillies Match Player Stats On Sep 29, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Sep 29, 2017

PHILADELPHIA -- Behind three home runs, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Mets 6-2 on Friday, the same day they announced that manager Pete Mackanin will not be retained following the 2017 season.

Mackanin, like his Mets counterpart Terry Collins, will finish out the season as manager and could possibly have won his final game in a Phillies uniform on Friday.

Phillies starter Ben Lively (4-7, 4.26 ERA) closed his rookie season in the big leagues with a win, throwing six innings of two-run baseball without walking a batter.

Lively made an early mistake to Mets second baseman Jose Reyes, who hit his 15th home run of the season on an 0-1 pitch in the bottom of the first inning to give the Mets an early 1-0 lead.

But, the Phillies' bats came to Lively's rescue, as they have for much of the second half of the season.

Third baseman Maikel Franco answered with a two-run home run in the bottom of the second inning off Mets starter Matt Harvey to put the Phillies on top.

In the following inning, outfielder Odubel Herrera hit a sacrifice fly to score shortstop Freddy Galvis, extending the Phillies' lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the third. In the ensuing at bat, Harvey, making his sixth start after a 2 1/2-month stay on the disabled list with a shoulder injury, balked home Nick Williams after a pitch slipped from his hand mid-delivery.

Dominic Smith brought the Mets back within a run, 4-2, with a solo home run in the top of the fifth on Lively's second mistake of the evening.

But the Phillies' power surge wasn't done, even when Harvey exited the game after four innings. Rookie catcher Jorge Alfaro mashed a solo home run off Mets reliever Hansel Robles in the bottom of the sixth, and Cesar Hernandez followed suit two batters later to extend the Phillies' lead to 6-2.

Harvey (5-7, 6.70 ERA) took the loss, surrendering four runs, all of them earned, while walking three and striking out three in his four innings.

NOTES: Over their last 30 games, the Phillies' bullpen has posted a 2.45 ERA, which ranks second in all of baseball during that span, trailing only the Washington Nationals (2.34 ERA)...The Mets are 6-1 in Citizens Bank Park this season and have out-homered the Phillies 22-7 in Philadelphia...The Mets lead the National League in home runs with a record 223 this season. They led the league in homers just three times previously (1988, 1989, and 1990).