WASHINGTON - Facing a franchise he has beaten more than any other, Tom Glavine picked up win No. 301 by allowing one run over seven innings Friday night in a 6-2 victory over the Washington Nationals.
Glavine (11-6) beat the former Montreal Expos for the 33rd time, including the sixth time since the team moved to the nation's capital in 2005. He is 4-1 with a 2.09 ERA in six starts at RFK Stadium.
For that matter, the entire Mets team has grown to like the old ballpark, which is hosting baseball for the final season. New York is 18-5 at RFK and will improve to 7-0 in series if it wins one more game this weekend.
Damion Easley and Moises Alou homered off Nationals starter Matt Chico (5-7), Jose Reyes stole his 61st and 62nd bases, and Mike DiFelice hit his first triple in three years as the first-place Mets made sure they wouldn't lose ground in the NL East.
Glavine allowed eight hits, struck out six and walked one to move into sole possession of 21st place on the all-time majors win list, ahead of Lefty Grove and Early Wynn. Glavine has 2,555 career strikeouts, tying him with Tim Keefe for 27th.
The Nationals haven't been getting nearly enough work out of their starting pitchers, and Chico kept the trend alive by lasting just 4 1-3 laborious innings. He walked five and had three-ball counts on four other batters. It was the fifth straight start in which he has pitched five or fewer innings.
Easley hit his 10th homer to lead off the second inning, and Alou got his third leading off the fourth. In between, Reyes caused his usual havoc on the basis, stealing second and moving on to third on an errant throw by catcher Brian Schneider before scoring on David Wright's single.
The Mets added another run in the fourth when Easley walked on scored on DiFelice's sacrifice fly. DiFelice, who had only one RBI for the season entering the game, knocked in two more with a two-run triple in the eighth.
The Nationals' only run off Glavine came in the third inning, when Dmitri Young doubled to drive home Ryan Zimmerman. Zimmerman, who went 3-for-4, scored again in the eighth on a single by Austin Kearns.
Notes: The Mets turned an acrobatic double play in the bottom of the fifth, starting when SS Reyes dove to his left to stop a groundball up the middle by Zimmerman. On his knees, Reyes glove-shoveled the ball on one hop to 2B Luis Castillo, who made an off-balance throw to first to end the inning. ... The Nationals haven't had a starter throw more than six innings since John Lannan pitched seven against Arizona last Saturday. ... Muscular Nationals 1B Young - hardly the swiftest player on the field - hustled to make a ground-shaking catch in the third inning, rolling to the grass to snag Castillo's foul popup. ... The Mets have the best record in the majors in the first game of a series (26-14).
For that matter, the entire Mets team has grown to like the old ballpark, which is hosting baseball for the final season. New York is 18-5 at RFK and will improve to 7-0 in series if it wins one more game this weekend.
Damion Easley and Moises Alou homered off Nationals starter Matt Chico (5-7), Jose Reyes stole his 61st and 62nd bases, and Mike DiFelice hit his first triple in three years as the first-place Mets made sure they wouldn't lose ground in the NL East.
Glavine allowed eight hits, struck out six and walked one to move into sole possession of 21st place on the all-time majors win list, ahead of Lefty Grove and Early Wynn. Glavine has 2,555 career strikeouts, tying him with Tim Keefe for 27th.
The Nationals haven't been getting nearly enough work out of their starting pitchers, and Chico kept the trend alive by lasting just 4 1-3 laborious innings. He walked five and had three-ball counts on four other batters. It was the fifth straight start in which he has pitched five or fewer innings.
Easley hit his 10th homer to lead off the second inning, and Alou got his third leading off the fourth. In between, Reyes caused his usual havoc on the basis, stealing second and moving on to third on an errant throw by catcher Brian Schneider before scoring on David Wright's single.
The Mets added another run in the fourth when Easley walked on scored on DiFelice's sacrifice fly. DiFelice, who had only one RBI for the season entering the game, knocked in two more with a two-run triple in the eighth.
The Nationals' only run off Glavine came in the third inning, when Dmitri Young doubled to drive home Ryan Zimmerman. Zimmerman, who went 3-for-4, scored again in the eighth on a single by Austin Kearns.
Notes: The Mets turned an acrobatic double play in the bottom of the fifth, starting when SS Reyes dove to his left to stop a groundball up the middle by Zimmerman. On his knees, Reyes glove-shoveled the ball on one hop to 2B Luis Castillo, who made an off-balance throw to first to end the inning. ... The Nationals haven't had a starter throw more than six innings since John Lannan pitched seven against Arizona last Saturday. ... Muscular Nationals 1B Young - hardly the swiftest player on the field - hustled to make a ground-shaking catch in the third inning, rolling to the grass to snag Castillo's foul popup. ... The Mets have the best record in the majors in the first game of a series (26-14).
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