The New York Mets pounded the Arizona Diamondbacks 18-4 Wednesday night at Bank One Ballpark to keep themselves in the thick of the National League wild card hunt. The Mets 20 hit attack was led by little known rookie Mike Jacobs who blasted two homers and four hits. David Wright also hit a pair of homers while Jose Reyes and Jacobs each had four RBIs for the Mets.
New York captured its third straight win and its seventh in its past nine games. The Mets set season highs for hits with 20 and runs with 18 as well as a franchise record with 13 extra base hits.
The Mets blew the game open with five runs in the second inning and added another five runs in the fifth. They also scored in every inning between the second and seventh.
Pitcher Jae Seo hurled seven strong innings to improve his record to 6-1. It was Seo's fifth straight win and his fourth since being recalled from AAA Norfolk on August 6. Seo also drove in two runs to help his own cause.
Perhaps the only highlight for Arizona came in the eighth inning when Shawn Green hit a two-run homer off of Mets reliever Aaron Heilman. The blast was the 300th of Green's major league career.
The win improved the Mets record to 65-60, 5 1/2 games behind first place Atlanta in the NL East and just 2 games behind the Phillies in the race for the NL wild card.
The Diamondbacks fell to 58-69 on the season. Despite the less than stellar record, Arizona is just five games behind first place San Diego in the mediocre NL West race.
