Davis homers twice, Mejia gets 1st MLB win
NEW YORK — Ike Davis connected twice and reached a career-high 30 homers, Jenrry Mejia pitched five effective innings for his first major league win and the New York Mets beat the plummeting Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2 Monday night for their fourth straight victory.
Davis had a career-high five RBIs and David Wright had a run-scoring single to move within two hits of tying Ed Kranepool’s franchise record of 1,418 hits.
The Pirates lost for the 31st time in 43 games since improving to a season-high 16 games above .500 (63-47) on Aug. 8. They started the day 6½ games back in the wild-card race with several teams ahead of them, and now need to win six of their last nine just to finish at break even.
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