Beltran blasts career high

By The Associated Press

Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:14 AM EDT

DENVER - Carlos Beltran set a career high with his 39th homer, Jose Reyes also connected and David Wright drove in three runs, sending the surging New York Mets to a 10-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.
Backed again by plenty of run support, Steve Trachsel improved to 12-1 in 15 starts since June 9. The Mets won for the 10th time in 11 games, maintaining their 15.5-game lead in the NL East.

Beltran added a run-scoring double to push his season total to 110 RBIs, also a career best. His 24 home runs on the road are a club record. And he has scored at least once in 11 consecutive games, matching Derek Bell's team mark set in 2000.

Reyes hit a two-run shot. Wright was 3-for-4 with two singles and a triple, and Carlos Delgado had two RBIs with a double and a triple.

The Mets' 15 hits helped Trachsel (14-5), who has a pedestrian 4.98 ERA, win for the fifth time in six starts. He allowed three runs and eight hits while striking out six and walking two in six innings.

Byung-Hyun Kim (7-10) gave up seven runs and seven hits with six strikeouts and two walks in 4 2-3 innings, losing his fourth straight decision.

The Mets took a 2-0 lead in the first on Beltran's solo home run to straightaway center with two outs and an RBI single by Wright.

Beltran hit 38 homers in 2004, splitting that season between Kansas City and Houston.

Colorado got a run back in its half when former Met Kaz Matsui singled and scored on Garrett Atkins' single.

Kim issued a two-out walk to Trachsel in the second and Reyes made him pay for it, hitting an opposite-field homer to left to make it 4-1. It was Reyes' 16th home run of the year.

Colorado cut it to 4-3 on Matt Holliday's two-run double in the third.

New York chased Kim with two outs in the fifth. He retired two hitters after Reyes doubled high off the wall in right to start the inning, but after Delgado was walked intentionally, Wright lined a triple past a diving Brad Hawpe in right to score Reyes and Delgado.

Tom Martin replaced Kim, and Shawn Green greeted him with an RBI single for a 7-3 Mets lead.

Beltran had an RBI double and Delgado hit a two-run triple in the sixth off Martin to make it 10-3.

Atkins' two-run double in the ninth made it 10-5. He finished with a career-high four hits.

Notes: RHP Pedro Martinez (right calf) began a throwing program at the Mets' minor league complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla. ... The Mets have 17 home runs in their last 11 games. ... Slumping Colorado 2B Jamey Carroll, 2-for-23 over his last six games, was out of the starting lineup.

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