NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto each hit a pivotal triple as the New York Mets defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 6-2 on Saturday to stop their seven-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Interim manager Andy Green earned his first win for the last-place Mets, who fired Carlos Mendoza on Friday. New York is 35-48 and entered Saturday 10 games out of the final NL wild-card spot.<\/p>\n
Lindor tied the game with a two-run triple off bulk reliever Alan Rangel (0-1) in the sixth inning. They were the first RBIs since April 22 for Lindor, who returned Wednesday from a two-month stint on the injured list with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n
A.J. Ewing put the Mets ahead 4-2 with a two-run single three batters later.<\/p>\n
Soto added an RBI triple in the seventh and Bo Bichette followed with a sacrifice fly. Soto, Bichette and Lindor, the 2-3-4 hitters in the lineup, went a combined 4 for 9 with two walks.<\/p>\n
It was just the 11th time this season Lindor and Soto were both in the starting lineup. Soto spent time on the IL in April with a right calf strain.<\/p>\n
A.J. Minter (1-1) got five outs for the win as four New York relievers combined for 4 2\/3 scoreless innings. Huascar Brazob\u00e1n, Luke Weaver and Devin Williams finished up.<\/p>\n
Bryce Harper hit a two-run shot off starter Christian Scott in the third, his 43rd homer against the Mets \u2014 most among active players.<\/p>\n
Scott gave up three hits and struck out six over 4 1\/3 innings in his first outing since June 11. He missed 15 days with a right hip impingement.<\/p>\n
Rangel permitted four runs in four innings. Phillies opener Tim Mayza tossed 1 1\/3 innings of one-hit ball.<\/p>\n
The start was delayed 70 minutes by rain.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Phillies LHP Jes\u00fas Luzardo (6-4, 4.39 ERA) starts Sunday\u2019s series finale against Mets opener Cionel P\u00e9rez (3-3, 4.99).<\/p>\n
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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n
Jerry Beach, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto each hit a pivotal triple as the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-765942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}