Brewers Rough Up Glavine, End Mets’ 4-Game Win Streak
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MILWAUKEE – Rookie J.J. Hardy singled in Junior Spivey with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Milwaukee Brewers ended the Mets’ four-game winning streak with a 5-4 victory yesterday.
Spivey, who had his fourth three-hit game of the season, singled with one out in the ninth. He then stole second base, barely beating catcher Mike Piazza’s throw off a pitchout.
After Chad Moeller struck out, Hardy hit a 1-0 pitch off Mike DeJean (0-1) past the dive of third baseman David Wright and into left field. Spivey scored, easily beating the off-line throw by Cliff Floyd.
Jeff Cirillo and Geoff Jenkins also had three hits for Milwaukee, which outhit the Mets 17-5.
Milwaukee scored its first four runs in the opening two innings against Tom Glavine. The struggling left-hander made it through six innings but gave up 11 hits and two walks. He has walked 24 batters in 36 2/3 innings. In his last three starts, Glavine has allowed 18 earned runs. But his effort yesterday actually lowered his ERA to 6.87.
Cirillo entered with a .180 average this season, but has hit .318 in his career against the Mets.
Bill Hall snapped an 0-for-12 slump with an RBI double in the first inning that gave Milwaukee its first run. Cirillo’s run-scoring double in the first made it 2-1. Milwaukee added two more runs in the second as Jenkins’s bloop double and Carlos Lee’s single each scored a run. Jenkins, who last had three hits on September 29, 2004, against Arizona, ended an 0-for-9 slump.
With the Mets trailing 4-1 in the sixth, Mike Cameron hit his second home run of the season – off an 0-2 pitch from starter Chris Capuano – to draw New York within one run.
The Mets tied it in the eighth when Carlos Beltran, who recorded his fifth three-hit game of the season, scored on a fielder’s choice by David Wright.
Milwaukee fell behind 1-0 in the first when Beltran, who hit two home runs on Saturday, delivered a run-scoring single.
Derrick Turnbow (4-1) pitched the ninth to earn the win. Capuano gave up three runs, four hits, and four walks in seven innings.
The Mets, who lead the N.L. with 40 home runs, hit nine in the three-game series. The Brewers hit three.
