National League Game Summary - Philadelphia at New York
Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Lucas Duda and Travis d'Arnaud each hit solo home runs to lead the New York Mets to a 6-1 win and series sweep over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Duda had a pair of extra-base hits and was among four Mets with multi-hit games. Curtis Granderson and Juan Lagares also had two hits, and Ruben Tejada reached base three times.
Jon Niese (1-0) allowed the Phillies' only run in the first inning but had to work out of trouble all night, finishing after 6 1/3 innings with nine hits and two walks to go with four strikeouts.
"Nothing came easy," said Niese. "Our offense did a great job and gave us the lead."
Chase Utley was credited with an RBI on a first-inning groundout. Cody Asche and Odubel Herrera had three hits apiece for the Phillies.
Jerome Williams (0-1) allowed five runs -- four earned -- on 10 hits and a walk in five innings.
After tying the game in the second inning on Lagares' RBI hit, the Mets went up for good in the third. Williams hung a 1-1 curveball to d'Arnaud, who lined it just over the wall in left field for his first homer of the season.
The Mets wound up scoring in five consecutive innings. Niese helped himself with a two-out RBI single in the fourth, and Duda hit the first pitch of the fifth inning over the wall in right center. In the sixth, d'Arnaud and Duda teamed up to add an insurance run when the latter knocked in the former with a double.
The Phillies opened the scoring in the first when Herrera led off the game with a triple and eventually scored on Utley's groundout.
Afterward, Philadelphia had at least two runners reach base in seven different innings. The Phillies hit just 2-for-16 with runners in scoring position and left 11 runners on base. They left the bases loaded in the fifth when Darin Ruf lined out to end the inning, and Andres Blanco and Jeff Francoeur each hit into double plays to end innings.
"We couldn't come up with a drive to put up a crooked number," said Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg. "We had the opportunities but could not do it."
Carlos Torres recorded two outs in the seventh after Niese left, and Alex Torres pitched the final two frames for the Mets.