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Another collapse

Tim Redding took a no-hitter into the fourth inning, but Francisco Rodriguez gave up a ninth-inning bases-loaded walk and a walk-off grand slam as the Washington Nationals topped the New York Mets 7-4 on Wednesday.

Elijah Dukes’ single up the middle in the fourth bumped our NoNoHitters.com count up to 7,641 New York Mets games without a no-no. Just three more games and we can pause the count for another offseason.

The Mets jumped on the scoreboard in the second inning when Jeff Francoeur hit a deep fly ball that should have been ruled a home run but was declared a ground-rule double after a video replay. The ball clearly hit the top of the fence, fell lightly into the potted flowers just behind the fence and bounced back in, but the umpires failed to overturn the on-field call.

That left runners at second or third for Fernando Tatis, who hit a sacrifice fly to right to score Carlos Beltran. Francoeur, who advanced to third on Elijah Dukes’ throw home, then scored on an Omir Santos single to make it 2-0 Mets

The Nats got one back in the fifth on an Adrian Gonzalez sacrifice fly, but the Mets got it back in the sixth when Beltran drove in Pagan with a single.

Washington again pulled within one in the eighth on Ryan Zimmerman homer, but the Mets again answered back when Santos drove in his second run of the night with a base hit.

That set the stage for a K-Rod save, but it wasn’t to be.

The Wright stuff

David Wright drove in two runs with a tenth-inning double Friday night to lead the Mets to a 3-1 win over the Washington Nationals during a rainy night in the nation’s capital.

After Luis Castillo led off with the inning a single to right and Carlos Beltran drew a walk, Wright (4-for-5 on the night) lined a 2-2 pitch to the wall in right-center to score both.

Former National Tim Redding put in a stong start, giving up just one earned run on six hits and two walks while striking out two. He lost his no-hitter in the second inning when gave up a single up the middle to Austin Kearns to make it 7,535 New York Mets games without a no-no.

The Mets got on the scoreboard in a second inning marred by two bad calls by the umpire crew – one for the Mets, one against.

After Wright led off with a bloop double, Wright tagged up up on a Daniel Murphy fly-out to center. Elijah Dukes clearly threw him out, but Wright was called safe. Wright then scored on a Fernando Tatis ground-out that he clearly beat out, but was called safe.

The Nationals got their only run in the fifth after Josh Bard led off with a double and pinch-hitter Alberto Gonzalez blooped in an RBI single to tie the game at 1.

Francisco Rodriguez got his 15th save of the season with a perfect bottom of the tenth.