Philadelphia Phillies vs New York Mets Match Player Stats On Jul 07, 2019

Aaron Nola carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning Sunday afternoon and Jay Bruce continued tormenting his former team by hitting two home runs and collecting four RBIs as the visiting Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Mets 8-3.

The Phillies took two of three against the Mets to improve to 10-15 since June 10 - a span in which they are 6-1 against New York and 4-14 against everyone else.

The Mets are a National League-worst 8-17 since June 10.

The game was played without incident one day after Phillies starter Jake Arrieta hit three Mets with pitches and threatened afterward to " ... put a dent in (the) skull" of New York third baseman Todd Frazier, who jawed at Arrieta after he was hit by a pitch in the fifth inning.

Mets reliever Wilmer Font plunked Rhys Hoskins with a 96 mph fastball in the seventh. Hoskins, who was angry when New York's Jacob Rhame threw inside to him twice during an April 23 game, homered off Font to cap the Phillies' scoring in the ninth.

Nola (8-2) allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits and three walks while striking out six over 6 2/3 innings. He allowed only two walks in the first 5 1/3 innings before Jeff McNeil reached on an error by Hoskins, immediately before rookie Pete Alonso's 30th home run, which tied the franchise record for homers before the All-Star Break. The two-RBI blast gave Alonso 68 RBIs this season, the most ever by a National League rookie prior to the All-Star break.

The Phillies scored all the runs they'd need for Nola in the first, when Hoskins (RBI double), J.T. Realmuto (two-RBI double) and Bruce (RBI single) laced together consecutive run-scoring hits against Mets starter Zack Wheeler.

Bruce ended Wheeler's afternoon with a two-run homer in the sixth and added a homer off of Font in the eighth. Bruce, whom the Mets traded to the Seattle Mariners in December before the Mariners sent him to the Phillies in June, is batting .333 with four homers and 11 RBIs in seven games this season against New York.

Wheeler (6-6) allowed six runs on eight hits and two walks while striking out seven in five-plus innings.

--Field Level Media