Mets 7, Pirates 0
Chris Capuano allowed three hits in seven scoreless innings to lift the visiting New York Mets to a 7-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday.
Carlos Beltran had a two-run single in a four-run eighth and Jose Reyes was 3-for-5 with a home run for his 13th multi-hit game in his last 16 as the Mets won for the sixth time in eight games.
Capuano (5-6) struck out five and walked two to outduel Pittsburgh’s Kevin Correia (8-5), who allowed three consecutive two-out hits in the eight, the last an RBI double by Justin Murphy to make it 2-0.
Beltran followed by greeting reliever Chris Resop with a two-run single to extend the lead to 4-0.
Scott Hairston homered and Jason Bay had a sacrifice fly in the seventh, his first RBI since May 31, to snap a scoreless deadlock.
Pittsburgh’s Andrew McCutchen had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 11 games. Correia was charged with four runs and seven hits in 7 2/3 innings.
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was ejected in the seventh for arguing that Angel Pagan did not make a clean catch of Lyle Overbay's towering drive to the wall in center field.