Mets 16, Phillies 7

“It’s good for the player and the team”. “For me, it nearly feels like Opening Day, where you have some butterflies, kind of nervous excitement”.

Such was not the case in Tuesday’s clash with the New York Mets, however.

“I’ll take the Nationals’ fans over the Mets’ fans”, Andersen said, according to NJ Advance Media. Including their three-game sweep of the Rockies over the weekend, they have scored 49 runs over their last four games. Happ (2-1) has allowed one earned run in his previous 171/Three innings. He entered 0-5 with a 5.05 ERA away from Citi Field while 8-1 with a 1.82 at home. 500 for the first time since finishing 89-73 in 2008. “You’ve got to keep your emotions in check”. “I got a chance to experience that first-hand tonight, and it was a lot of fun”.

The night started off rough with deGrom giving up 3 home runs and was out by the 3rd inning.

Wright led off the second inning with a homer off Philadelphia starter Adam Morgan, and he finished 2-for-5. In their past four games, they’ve gotten that and more.

But Flores’ line drive to left field at the top of the fourth was the first of five straight homers for the Mets, and the first of 14 unanswered runs.

Williams will get his third look at the Mets in 2015 but first at Citizens Bank Park. I need to cut them out as soon as possible.

“He’ll have something to say about that”, Collins said about Wright.

Yoenis Cespedes homered for the Mets, who have won 17 of their last 23 to remain 5½ games up on the Nationals in the NL East. They are 11-3 in Philadelphia the last two seasons. “Jumping on (Jacob) deGrom for seven runs was special”.

The Philies afterward said Mets pitchers also used quick pitches in Monday’s opener of the four-game set.

Bowa also appeared to motion toward his ribs during a staredown with Murphy, who flipped his bat after homering in Monday night’s rout.

Wright’s homer in the second inning was significant – the 32-year-old rising to the occasion at his first at-bat since returning from a career-threatening spine injury. Brown answered in the bottom half to extend the lead to 7-2. Orosco was on the mound for the final out and led the celebration when the Mets beat the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 1986 World Series. Howard made New York pay with an opposite-field, two-run shot that put Philadelphia in front 4-3.

“We never gave up, ” Flores said. “It’s really fun being here right now”.

There was the weird Matt Harvey home debut all the way back in April, during the Mets’ 11-game win streak that set the stage for this wild and thrilling summer in Flushing. They had 15 extra-base hits, most in franchise history.