TORONTO – Tom Glavine became baseball’s first 11-game winner, David Wright hit a three-run homer and the New York Mets beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-1 to set a club record with their ninth straight victory on the road.
Lastings Milledge also homered for the Mets, and Glavine (11-2) pitched seven strong innings to win his ninth consecutive decision. But it might have been a costly victory because setup man Duaner Sanchez, a key member of New York’s stellar bullpen, left after only two pitches with an injury.
Sanchez appeared to hurt his arm on a wayward pitch in the eighth inning. He crouched down behind the mound and came out of the game without even trying a test pitch.
Carlos Delgado went 0-for-3 with a walk in his first game against his former team. Delgado doffed his helmet when he received a standing ovation before his first at-bat.
Delgado, Toronto’s career leader in home runs and RBIs, left as a free agent two years ago after the club didn’t offer him a multiyear contract.
Xavier Nady hit an RBI triple with two outs in the first. Wright, who homered twice in Thursday’s 6-2 victory over Cincinnati, gave New York 4-0 lead in the third with his 18th homer, a shot to left off starter Casey Janssen (5-6).
Wright has 13 RBIs in the last six games and 63 for the season in 72 games.
Glavine allowed just one run and eight hits, striking out four and walking one. The 40-year-old left-hander is 9-0 in 11 starts since losing to San Francisco on April 24.
He had struggled in Toronto before, losing both of his starts and posting a 7.71 ERA.
Chad Bradford replaced Sanchez and worked a scoreless eighth before Pedro Feliciano finished up.
Alex Rios drove in the lone run for the Blue Jays, who won their previous three games.
Paul Lo Duca and Carlos Beltran singled in the third before Wright homered off the facing of the second deck.
Milledge hit a solo shot off Janssen in the fourth, giving New York a 5-0 lead.
Janssen lost his third straight start. He allowed five runs and eight hits in six innings – the third consecutive time he’s allowed at least five runs.
Reed Johnson tripled in the sixth and scored on Rios’ sacrifice fly.
Lo Duca hit an RBI double to right in the seventh to make it 6-1. He tried to stretch it into a triple, but was easily thrown out. He veered off the basepath, knowing he was a dead duck.
Notes: Toronto manager John Gibbons was one of three first-round picks the Mets had in 1980. The others were Darryl Strawberry and Oakland general manager Billy Beane. … Milledge made a nice, over-the-shoulder catch at the wall in left in the seventh. … Sanchez is 4-0 with a 2.43 ERA.
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