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Mike Pelfrey led the Mets to a 3-hit 7-0 shutout of the San Francisco Giants Tuesday night as New York pulled within 1 1/2 games of the first place Phillies.
The Mets jumped on the board early when Carlos Beltran hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the first. Carlos Delgado and Fernando Tatis also homered in the game. The Mets have now won four straight and appear to be finally showing signs of a streak heading into the All-Star break.
Pelfrey lost his bid for the first New York Mets no-hitter in 7,410 franchise games when Aaron Rowand singled in the first inning. But he earned his seventh victory of the season by giving up just three hits and no walks while striking out five over seven strong innings.
Scott Schoeneweis and Joe Smith successfully finished out the eighth and ninth innings.
SI cover jinx on Lincecum? You betcha. And I even read the article in the waiting room and declared, “This guy ain’t beating Pelfrey tonight.”
Excellent. Josh Hamilton hit a homer off Oliver Perez in the June game we treked to Shea for shortly appearing on the cover of SI. The Mets won that game by a decent margin so maybe the jinx applied to the whole Rangers team instead of Hamilton individually.