The New York Mets salvage the final game of the series against the Miami Marlins

The New York Mets defeated the Miami Marlins on Sunday afternoon.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 4-3.  Bartolo Colon pitched well and had an RBI double.  The Mets only managed six hits and no player had more than a hit. 

Colon pitched seven innings giving up six hits and three runs with two strikeouts.  Carlos Torres pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and striking out one and Jeurys Familia pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up two hits and striking out two and he picked up his 15th save of the season. 

David Phelps pitched six innings giving up four hits and three runs with two of them being earned.  He struck out two batters.  Pat Cishek lost his fith game of the season pitching 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout, Mike Dunn pitched to one batter and retired him and Matt Capps pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout. 

Curtis Granderson drew a walk, Ruben Tejada had a hit adn an RBI and Daniel Murphy had a hit.  Wilmer Flores had a hit and an RBI, Juan Lagares had a hit and Anthony Recker had a hit.  Colon had a hit and an RBI, Colon and Tejada each hit a double and Flores hit a homerun.  the Mets were 2-9 with runners in scoring position and left fiv emen on base.  Lagares had a stolen base.

Dee Gordon had two hits, Martin Prado had a hit and Justin Bour had two hits and an RBI.  Ichiro Suzuki had a hit, Donovan Solano had a hit and Christian Yelich had a hit and an RBI.  Marcell Ozuna had a hit, Jhonatan Solano had an RBI and Yelich hit a double.  Bour hit a homerun adn the Marlins were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Bour committed an error. 

In the first Flores reached on a fielding error and a run scored to make it 1-0 Mets.  In the second Yelich hit an RBI groundout to tie the game at one.  Colon hit an RBI double in the bottom of the second to give the Mets a 2-1 lead.  In the third Flores hit a solo homerun and it was 3-1 Mets.  In the fifth Solano hit an RBI groundout to trim the lead to 3-2 Mets.  In the sixth Bour hit a solo homerun to tie the game at three.  Tejada hit an RBI double in the seventh to make it 4-3 Mets and that would be the final score.  The Mets lost two out of three in the series and the Mets will head to the West Coast to take on the Padres on Monday night to begin a three game series.