Mets a must play team at home against Pirates

The Pirates are 12-6, and as previously mentioned, Pittsburgh has a home run in 16 of those games.

With that, New York maintains 63 wins and 52 losses and is now 1st in the National League Eastern Division.

The Pittsburgh Pirates take the field against the New York Mets in Week 19 of the regular season on Friday, August 14 at 7:10 p.m. EST at Citi Field in Flushing, NY.

Even left-handed pitcher Francisco Liriano joined the home-run parade with a bomb in his start against the Los Angeles Dodgers last Saturday. “Facing that kind of lineup always forces you to prepare a little bit more”. These Pirates, who have reached the postseason the last two years and hold the top NL wild card spot, are nothing like the Colorado Rockies, the team the Mets beat up on earlier this week in a four-game sweep. Aramis Ramirez stretched the Pirates lead to 3-1 with a sacrifice fly.

“I think today’s just a matter of trying to do too much”, Parnell said. I saw some good fans up there showing me some support.

“Outside of the 10th inning, it was a good ballgame”, manager Terry Collins said. “I thought it was going to get over his head, but it didn’t”.

Walker homered with one out in the first, sending a drive into the Pittsburgh bullpen. The Pirates homered in their eighth straight game for the first time in a single season since June 2013, STATS said.

ASTROS 5, TIGERS 1: In Houston, Dallas Keuchel struck out eight in seven solid innings, and Jed Lowrie powered the offense with a two-RBI double to lead Houston. “He’s been really good against us with what he does”. He hit all three homers in one game on July 12, when he became the first Mets player in franchise history to slam three homers in a home game. While Pittsburgh has won six of eight to remain six games behind National League Central-leading St. Louis, the Mets saw their seven-game home winning streak come to a halt with their third loss in 14 outings.

J.A. Happ will be making his second start for the Pirates on Friday night after he was acquired from the Seattle Mariners at the trade deadline. Uribe flied out to left fielder Ishikawa.

Mets’ Yoenis Cespedes after striking out Friday night against the Pirates.

Mets tenth. Melancon pitching. But Pittsburgh closer Mark Melancon struck out Cespedes and got Uribe on a grounder. S.Marte pinch-running for Stewart. He is listed as day-to-day. He hasn’t played in four games.

“That game got away in the third inning, that’s where we had to score”, Collins said.

New York is turning to Bartolo Colon (10-11, 4.76 ERA), who is 1-7 with a 5.30 ERA over his last nine starts. Cervelli added a single and after a mound visit Gregory Polanco came up with another big late-game hit connecting for an RBI single.