DENVER (AP) — Carson Benge homered leading off the sixth inning for New York’s first hit against Tomoyuki Sugano, and the Mets beat the skidding Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Monday in a game moved up three hours to avoid potential wet weather.
Mark Vientos added a two-run single for the Mets, who are 3-1 on a nine-game trip after losing 17 of 20 overall. Benge also saved a run with a diving catch in center field.
Colorado has dropped five straight, and six
of seven since allowing only four runs in a three-game sweep of the Mets at Citi Field from April 24-26.
New York got four hits in a four-run sixth after Sugano (3-2) was untouchable through five innings. He threw just 48 pitches and had faced the minimum entering the sixth before things unraveled for him.
Benge homered to right-center and Francisco Alvarez and Luis Torrens followed with consecutive doubles to make it 2-0. Sugano walked Juan Soto and was removed following Bo Bichette’s groundout that put runners on second and third.
Vientos drove in two more with a two-out single off Jaden Hill. Vientos hit a pair of two-run homers Sunday in a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
Denver native David Peterson (1-4), the third New York pitcher, went four innings for the win. He gave up two runs and three hits with six strikeouts and no walks.
Craig Kimbrel worked a scoreless eighth and Devin Williams pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save.
Mickey Moniak had two hits for Colorado to extend his hitting streak to 17 games.
The Rockies scored twice in the seventh on an RBI triple by Jordan Beck and a run-scoring single by Kyle Karros. They threatened again in the eighth after Moniak's one-out triple, but he was stranded.
The decision to move up the game three hours was made Sunday, with snow, rain and cold temperatures forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mets RHP Freddy Peralta (1-3, 3.52 ERA) and Rockies RHP Michael Lorenzen (2-3, 6.09) are slated to start Tuesday night.
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