Cespedes, Lugo lead Mets to 10-3 win over Braves

Here we’ll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. “It nearly worked.” The Braves have split 22 extra-inning games – the most by any team in the majors.

The loss snapped a six game winning streak for the Mets.

Yoenis Cespedes hit a grand slam, Lugo won his fourth straight start and the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 10-3 on Sunday.

Pierzynski wouldn’t say after Saturday night’s 10-inning victory over the Mets if he’s played his last game. They began the day one-half game back in the NL wild-card race.

Mets: 2B Neil Walker had season-ending back surgery Thursday to fix a herniated disk. Atlanta tied it with runs in the first and fourth innings.

The Mets now trail the Nationals by nine games in the NL East, and it’s safe to assume at this point that barring a miracle they will not make up that deficit. He struck out two, walked one and hit a batter. Kluber’s ERA is down to 3.05 and with his peripheral numbers also strong, he could very well be the Cy Young favorite in the AL. The 24-year-old right-hander went 8 2/3 innings, giving up just four singles and striking out four.

Granderson has homered in four consecutive games, the longest streak of his career.

Adrian Beltre: The Texas Rangers lost 3-2 to the Los Angeles Angels but don’t blame Adrian Beltre. Cabrera finished with three hits for the Mets while James Loney and Jose Reyes had two each. Beltre’s now hitting.299/.358/.516 on the season with 29 home runs and 96 RBIs. The grand slam was Cespedes’ second this season and the homer his 30th – marking the second straight year he reached that plateau. This time the stakes weren’t quite as high, but Ortiz still rose to the occasion to deliver for the Red Sox again. Kelly Johnson’s pinch-hit double drove in the go-ahead run. The 26-year-old held Washington to one run on six hits with four strikeouts in seven innings September 4, and has surrendered only three runs on 13 hits in 18 innings during his winning streak.

Orioles 3, Tigers 1: Chris Tillman pitched six innings of one-run ball while Michael Bourn and Jonathan Schoop homered for Baltimore.

Reds 8, Pirates 0: Tyler Holt and Brandon Phillips had three hits apiece, leading Brandon Finnegan and the Reds. Atlanta put up an additional run in the ninth on an RBI groundout by Nick Markakis. Freeman brings a 16-game hitting streak and a career-best 32-game on-base streak into Sunday, showing why the Braves had turned down every trade request for a player signed through the 2021 season.Freeman, who turns 27 Monday and started the season 2-for-25, has at least one base hit in 37 of his past 38 games, hitting.359 in that stretch.