GAME THREAD: NL: PHILADELPHIA (30-29) at NY METS (35-22)

Burrell, Utley helps Phillies sweep rival Mets

<h3>PHILADELPHIA 6, NY METS 3 (10 INNINGS)</h3>FLUSHING, New York (Ticker) -- A blast by Pat Burrell and abloop by Chase Utley helped move the Philadelphia Phillies backwithin striking distance in the National League East.

Burrell tied the game with a home run in the ninth and Utleydelivered a run-scoring double in the 10th as the Philliesrallied for a 6-3 victory over the New York Mets.

The Phillies completed their first three-game sweep of the Metssince September 10-12, 2004 and moved the Phillies within fivegames of first-place New York.

Carlos Delgado, David Wright and Paul Lo Duca hit consecutivehomers, but it was not enough to prevent the Mets from losingtheir fourth straight game. New York was swept in a series forthe first time this season and was swept at home for the firsttime in 40 series dating to September 2005.

Jimmy Rollins singled off Scott Schoeneweis (0-1) to lead offthe 10th and was sacrificed to second by Shane Victorino.Rollins was almost caught too far off second on the play, butshortstop Jose Reyes could not hold on to the throw from JoseValentin.

Rollins, who hit a decisive two-run homer in the eighth ofWednesday's 3-2 win, then came home when Utley blooped a doubledown the left field line.

After an intentional walk to Ryan Howard, rookie Joe Smithallowed an RBI single to Aaron Rowand and an RBI double toBurrell.

Mike Zagurski (1-0) earned his first major league win, strikingout Ben Johnson with two runners on to end the ninth and AntonioAlfonseca pitched a scoreless ninth for his fourth save of theseason.

Burrell, who was moved to the sixth spot for the first time thisseason, spoiled a fine effort by John Maine when he hit a 3-2pitch from Mets closer Billy Wagner in the ninth to tie the gameat 3-3.

It was Wagner's first blown save of the season and the secondtime this season Wagner has pitched more than inning. The otherwas an extra-inning game against Colorado on April 23.

Wagner had converted his last 31 save opportunities, includingall 13 this season. The last blown save for the righthander wasAugust 1, 2006 against the Florida Marlins.

The mistake gave Maine, who allowed two runs and six hits inseven innings a no-decision.

Meanwhile Burrell, who is in the midst of a prolonged slump thatdropped his average to .223 entering the game, hit his 37thcareer homer against the Mets, tying Chipper Jones for secondmost among active players behind Barry Bonds.

The injury-plagued Mets, currently with three outfielders on thedisabled list after Endy Chavez was added prior to the game,finally awoke with two outs in the sixth.

After scoring just five runs in losing their previous threegames, the Mets were blanked by Phillies starter Cole Hamelsthrough five innings until starting to play longball.

Delgado started it with his ninth homer of the season, a mammothshot to right field estimated at 450 feet, with two outs in thesixth. Wright followed his ninth home run on a full-count blastto left-center field that was originally ruled a triple. Butthe umpires conferred and ruled that the ball had hit a wall inback of the fence and landed back on the field. That prompted atirade from Phillies manager Charlie Manuel, who was ejected byumpire Jerry Layne.

Once play resumed, Lo Duca belted the first pitch from Hamelsover the left field fence to give New York a 3-2 lead.

It was the seventh time the Mets have hit three consecutive homeruns and the first since Darryl Strawberry, Kevin McReynoldsand Keith Hernandez connected off Don Carman of Philadelphia onApril 7, 1989.

Hamels was charged with three runs and 10 hits in seven inningswith five strikeouts.

Abraham Nunez singled to lead off the third, stole second andlater scored on an RBI single by Rollins, who hit a decisivethree-run homer in Wednesday's win.

The Phillies manufactured a run in similar fashion in the sixth.Shane Victorino singled, stole second, advanced to third on agroundout and late scored when Howard lined a single that fellin front of right fielder Carlos Gomez that made it 2-0.