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Brandon Phillips pulls a solo home run just over the left-field wall to cut the Mets' lead in half in the bottom of the 8th inning"I was staying in attack-mode and making pitches like I did before," Gsellman said. "I was trying to pick up [Cabrera] and as a teammate I got to pick them up sometimes. After the first inning, I got it out of the way and I felt like I was cruising a little bit."

Cespedes, who had missed the past six weeks with a hamstring strain, drilled a 1-1 pitch to left-center field in the ninth inning off Luke Jackson to give the Mets much-needed breathing room.

Yoenis Cespedes smashes a grand slam to deep left-center field in his first game back from the DL to give the Mets…