Reyes the spark as Mets gain on Marlins

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MIAMI — The jockeying for position in the National League East got a little tighter on Friday night as the Mets moved to within a half-game of the second-place Marlins with a 5-3 win at Marlins Park. The intensity was evident all night, and the Mets responded behind Jose Reyes’ three hits, two runs scored and an RBI, a pair of Yoenis Cespedes sacrifice flies and James Loney’s two-run homer in the ninth.

Reyes started the decisive rally with a single to lead off the seventh, and he scored the go-ahead run on Cespedes’ fly ball to center off David Phelps. The Marlins’ bullpen had a streak of 16 1/3 scoreless innings going before Cespedes’ sac fly. The Mets are now 51-44, while the Marlins are 52-44.

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