Reyes helps Mets record 14th straight win over Reds
CINCINNATI -- Jose Reyes, Curtis Granderson and Wilmer Flores each homered to help the New York Mets complete a three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds with a 6-3 victory on Wednesday afternoon at Great American Ball Park.
The Mets have won 14 straight games against Cincinnati, dating to Sept. 7, 2014. It's the second-longest winning streak against any team in franchise history.
New York (74-66) entered play on Wednesday trailing the St. Louis Cardinals by one game for the second wild-card spot in the National League.
Mets starter Noah Syndergaard (13-8) was wild but effective on Wednesday, walking four and giving up six hits. The Mets' defense and a few baserunning blunders by the Reds helped him toss five scoreless innings.
Syndergaard is 4-1 with a 1.38 ERA in his last five starts.
Jeurys Familia notched his major-league leading 47th save.
It took one pitch for the Mets to take the lead on Wednesday.
Jose Reyes jumped on the first offering from Anthony DeSclafani and deposited it in the right-field seats for his 24th career leadoff homer and 19th with the Mets.
It was Reyes' sixth home run this season.
The Reds made a series of base-running blunders on Wednesday.
They drew two walks and had a single in the second inning but saw two runners thrown out attempting to steal second, including Scott Schebler, who may have missed a sign and was tagged out standing up.
An error by shortstop Jose Peraza contributed to the Mets' second run when Reyes scored from third on a wild pitch. There might have been a play at the plate, but DeSclafani was slow to cover. In the third, Peraza was thrown out at home.
The Reds had nine baserunners via five hits and four walks through four frames, but no runs.
Granderson's blast to deep center on a 3-1 pitch from DeSclafani in the sixth made the score 3-0. It was his 25th homer of the season.
Flores hit his first career pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning of Wandy Peralta, tying a Mets' franchise record for pinch-hit homers in a season with 12.
The Mets led 5-0 in the eighth when the Reds scored three times with Peraza's two-run double off Addison Reed being the big blow. All three runs were charged to Gabriel Ynoa.
NOTES: The Mets have 25 homers in their past 13 games at Great American Ball Park and have gone 11-2 in those games. ... Cincinnati has signed 20-year old Cuban RHP Vladimir Gutierrez, who was in Cincinnati Tuesday to complete a physical and finalize a minor-league deal reportedly worth more than $4 million. ... Reds CF Billy Hamilton will not travel with the team for this weekend's series at Pittsburgh and will remain in Cincinnati to receive treatment for his strained left oblique. ... Mets manager Terry Collins doesn't believe LHP Steven Matz or RHP Jacob DeGrom will make their next starts. Matz, on the DL since Aug. 15 with left shoulder tightness, threw off flat ground on Monday.