Mets wrap up NL East crown

“I don’t think he was sharp, if you want the truth”, Frazier said, “but he was good”. It didn’t deter a large crowd of Mets fans gathered behind the visitors’ dugout, one waving a yellow sign with black ink that said, “David Worth the Wait”.

“I can’t be more excited or more proud to wear the orange and blue”, Wright said.

Despite giving all of their regulars the day off, the Mets completed the first season sweep by either team since New York started play in 1962, going 7-0 against Cincinnati. But the Washington Nationals would rebound in May and take over the division on May 20th.

As Wright’s champagne-and-beer-soaked shirt proclaimed: “The East Is Ours”. “We’re going to play Tejada for a few games and see if we can get Flo’s energy back”. “This is tremendous”. Harvey gave up a pair of runs in 6 2/3 innings. He walked none and struck out nine, bringing him to just two punchouts from recording 200 in his second big-league season. “I’d rather it not happen in our ballpark, but you have to acknowledge what the Mets have done”.

Short it was for the starters, with Oakland’s Zito throwing two innings and outlasting Hudson’s 1 1-3 for the Giants, 11 years after they last pitched together here in 2004. Last-place Cincinnati has lost eight in a row, one shy of its season high. For now, the Mets have a division title to celebrate. “You look back on our year”. They’d be fresh. You’d teach them not to max out.

Kurt Suzuki posted the tie-breaking RBI single in the seventh inning in Minnesota’s 6-2 win against the Detroit Tigers, which kept the Twins within 1.5 games of the Astros for the second AL wild-card slot.

After two September collapses and nine years of frustration, thousands of blue-clad Mets fans chanted “Let’s go Mets!” from Lucas Duda’s first swing – a grand slam in the first – until the team returned to the field following a champagne celebration to high-five their supporters.

DeSclafani became the first Reds rookie to make 30 starts in a season since Johnny Cueto in 2008.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Albert Pujols and C.J Cron each hit a two-run home run to lead the Los Angeles Angels to a win over Seattle at Angel Stadium.

The last inside-the-park grand slam in the majors was hit by Tampa Bay’s Randy Winn against the New York Yankees on October 3, 1999.

Matt Holliday had a pair of RBI doubles, and Kolten Wong’s two-run single capped a four-run first against rookie Tyler Wagner (0-1). His MVP-level performance at the plate, combined with a second-half surge from Curtis Granderson and the return of David Wright, gave the offense a much-needed boost.

The only bad news the Mets got on Saturday was on infielder Juan Uribe, who status for the playoffs is in doubt after he apparently aggravated the rib cage cartilage injury he suffered last Sunday.