Every Mets player except Yoenis Cespedes had a hit off Rusin (4-6). But that was OK, since he greeted reliever Justin Miller with a single to complete the Mets' effort of batting around in the third before making an out. Mets starter Jon Niese (8-9) gave up seven runs, including Kyle Parker's three-run triple and Charlie Blackmon's two-run homer, in 5 1/3 innings. Yet that was good enough to keep the Mets five games ahead of the second-place Nationals.
Parker drove in four runs, and Blackmon and Jose Reyes had consecutive homers in the sixth for the Rockies, who nonetheless have lost 10 straight to the Mets over the last two seasons.