Glavine Sharp As Mets Sweep Struggling Reds

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Tom Glavine won consecutive starts for the first time in more than a year, Mike Piazza had his second four-hit game in two weeks, and Jose Reyes tripled twice.


After a 10-6 win yesterday that completed a three-game sweep of the woeful Cincinnati Reds, the Mets were feeling a little giddy.


Bring on the Yankees!


“We know the fans are certainly into it,” Glavine said. “There’s a different level of excitement and electricity in the ballpark.”


There was a sparse crowd of 26,607 at Shea Stadium for this one. Chris Woodward, Mike Cameron, and David Wright homered, and the Mets (22-19) matched their season high of three games over .500 going into the weekend Subway Series.


Glavine (3-4), who defeated St. Louis on Friday with seven-plus scoreless innings, had not won two starts in a row since a West Coast trip last year at Los Angeles (April 27) and San Diego (May 2).


“I was trying to be too much of a power guy,” he said.


The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner, handed a 4-0 lead after two, allowed two runs and nine hits in six innings to improve to 26-12 against the Reds.


He struggled with his changeup, but got Jason LaRue to hit into an inning ending double play in the second after Adam Dunn’s leadoff triple. He induced a 1-2-3 double play from Ryan Freel with the bases loaded in the fifth, when the Reds could have gotten back into the game but scored just one run.


“When you win, to me you don’t nitpick about little things like hits,” Randolph said. “As long as they don’t hurt you, that’s fine. They can get 20 as long as we win the game.”


Cincinnati (14-26) lost its fourth straight and is 0-8-3 in its last 11 series. Woodward’s second-inning homer off Eric Milton (2-5) marked the 17th straight game the Reds allowed a home run, matching the team record set from June 5-23, 2001. Danny Graves allowed two homers in a four-run eighth. Cincinnati made four errors, which led to a pair of unearned runs.


Sean Casey was the lone bright spot for Cincinnati, going 5-for-5 with a home run, a double, and four RBI. Ken Griffey Jr. hit a two-run homer in the ninth, his sixth of the season.


Not much went right for the Reds. Second baseman D’Angelo Jimenez made two errors, and third baseman Joe Randa and Graves had one each. Milton, who had slapped a single to left in the fifth after faking a bunt, singled sharply to left with two outs in the sixth only to have Jimenez thrown out at the plate by Cliff Floyd.


Floyd has been watching the Yankees on TV during their West Coast trip, and hoped Seattle would stop their winning streak at 10 last night.


“You want them to lose. You want them to be down a little bit,” he said.


Still, he wasn’t surprised by their rebound from an 11-19 start.


“It’s amazing that anybody would even doubt those dudes,” Floyd said.


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