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- Updated: April 30, 2016
NEW YORK — The Mets’ dream April, in which they challenged home run records and pitched their way up the Major League leaderboards despite little from Matt Harvey, is over. They put a fitting cap to it Saturday, rocketing two more homers behind a gutsy Jacob deGrom performance on their way to their eighth straight victory, a 6-5 win over the Giants at Citi Field.
Michael Conforto led the way by doubling, singling, homering and driving in three, in the process completing a torrid two-week stretch that’s seen him cement his spot as one of the brightest young hitters in baseball.
The Mets scored all six runs off Giants starter Matt Cain, who set up the second inning by plunking two batters ahead of Conforto. Winning pitcher deGrom battled control problems as well, posting the fourth four-walk game of his career. But he would have surrendered far less damage had Wilmer Flores’ throwing error not extended the third inning, when Hunter Pence capitalized with a two-run single.
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