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The New York Mets rallied for fine runs in the second inning Friday night to overcome an early deficit and beat the Colorado Rockies 7-2 for the team’s second straight victory.
The Mets are back at .500 and now trail the first-place Philadelphia Phillies by just 4 1/2 games.
John Maine gave up two runs in the first but settled in to yield no more. He gave up just six hits over 6 2/3 innings – starting with an opening single to left by the Rockies’ Willy Taveras. That bumped our NoNoHiitters.com count to 7,392 New York Mets games without a no hitter and marked the 901st time a potential Mets’ no hitter was killed by the first at-bat (Click here for more details.)
Joe Smith, Pedro Feliciano and Aaron Heilman finished out the game to give Maine his seventh victory of the season.
