Jake Cave hit a home run, Elias Díaz had two hits and two RBIs, and the Colorado Rockies defeated the New York Mets 6-3 on Tuesday night.
Cave hit a two-out, two-run homer off Luis Severino (7-5) to finish a three-run fourth inning, and Díaz added an insurance run with a single in the eighth. Cave’s opposite-field homer, which measured 372 feet, barely cleared the left-field fence.
“Obviously, the ball that Cave hit, you can make a case that it is a ball that probably goes out only in this ballpark,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “But he got to it on a fastball up.”
Cave has hit five homers since July 4, with four of those coming in his last 60 at-bats. Four of his five homers have either tied the game or given the Rockies a lead.
“He’s doing his part, for sure,” Colorado manager Bud Black said.
Harrison Bader had a two-run single, and Brandon Nimmo had two hits and an RBI for the Mets, who have lost four of their last six games and were playing their third game in three days at three different locations.
The Mets lost to the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday, won in St. Louis on Monday in a makeup game for a rainout on May 8, and played the Rockies on Tuesday.
The game was delayed for nine minutes due to heavy rain in the fifth inning, and the teams played through a brief shower in the sixth.
Severino allowed five runs, four earned, on eight hits in five innings, striking out five with a fastball reaching 98 mph. He has given up 25 earned runs in his last 38 1/3 innings over seven starts.
“It was good to see him strong again today,” Mendoza said.
Justin Lawrence (4-4), the first of four Colorado relievers, pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings to earn the win. Victor Vodnik, pitching around a leadoff single in the ninth, picked up his sixth save in eight opportunities. The bullpen threw 4 2/3 scoreless innings.
“This breeds confidence when you have a game like this,” Black said.
Colorado starter Kyle Freeland allowed three runs and four hits in 4 2/3 innings before leaving due to a blister on his left index finger, which formed in the fourth inning. Freeland, who struck out seven, said he popped the blister before the fifth inning.
