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Nolan Arenado should have no trouble getting to sleep now.

Arenado homered for the third straight game and drove in five runs to lead the Colorado Rockies to a 6-4 victory over the New York Mets on Thursday. After hitting .171 while the Rockies lost eight of 10 over the last two weeks Terrell Edmunds Jersey Elite , Arenado hit .538 in the last three games.

�When you�re losing and you�re not getting hits it hurts,� Arenado said. �It keeps me up at night.�

Arenado also doubled to back another strong outing from Kyle Freeland (7-6). Freeland has pitched at least six innings in 10 of his last 11 starts and has emerged as the team�s most reliable starter.

Arenado had just two home runs in his first 15 games of June, but has four in his last seven. He put the Rockies ahead 3-1 with a three-run homer in the first off Steven Matz (3-5), his 16th of the season.

He delivered a two-run double in the second to drive in five for the second time this season. He also had five RBIs at the Chicago Cubs on May 2.

�Today was a special day. I�m not going to drive in five every game,� he said.

Todd Frazier gave the Mets a 1-0 lead in the first with his eighth homer. New York has lost three in a row after winning three straight.

The Mets got within two runs when Frazier and Michael Conforto led off the eighth with singles. Yency Almonte, making his major league debut, relieved Chris Rusin and allowed one inherited runner to score that made it 5-3 before getting an inning-ending double play.

It was the fifth double-play grounder by New York on the afternoon. The Rockies tied a franchise record for a nine-inning game by inducing five ground-ball double plays. It�s only the third time in any game the Rockies induced five groundout double plays.

Freeland got out of three jams with double plays.

�He made some really good pitches down,� Mets manager Mickey Callaway said. �I�ve seen Freeland in the past, he does a good job of executing the balls just down under the zone. If you chase one and put it in play, it becomes a double play.�

Gerardo Parra�s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth restored the three-run lead. New York got one back when Kevin Plawecki tripled in the ninth and came home on a groundout. Dominic Smith doubled with two outs, but Jake McGee struck out Brandon Nimmo to get his first save of the season.

TRAINER�S ROOM

Mets: INF Asdrubal Cabrera was out of the lineup Ryan Jensen Jersey Elite , but Callaway said he was fine a day after hitting his left elbow making a tag. � Callaway said OF Yoenis Cespedes (right hip flexor) did some stretching and the hope is he progresses in the next few days.

NUMBERS GAME

Arenado has only 14 career at-bats against Matz but he�s made them count. He is hitting .357 with four home runs and 12 RBIs against the Mets� lefty after Thursday.

�I threw a couple of bad pitches and Arenado beat me twice,� Matz said. �That really sums up the whole game.�

Matz struck out Arenado looking in the fourth and settled down to go 5 2-3 innings.

�When you put your team in a hole like that you gotta look ahead and go as deep as you can,� Matz said.

ROSTER MOVE

Before the game, the Rockies recalled Almonte from Triple-A Albuquerque and optioned INF Ryan McMahon to their top farm team. Almonte said he was struggling with nerves when he jogged to the mound in the eighth.

�I came in and it was first and third and I thought, `I need to do something, get a ground ball or a fly out,�� Almonte said. �That was huge for me.�

UP NEXT

Mets: RHP Zack Wheeler (2-5, 4.82) will open a three-game home series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. Wheeler has gone six or more innings in nine of his 13 starts.

Rockies: RHP Jon Gray (6-7, 5.89) takes the mound in the opener of a weekend series against Miami. Gray has allowed 12 earned runs in three June starts and holds a 6.75 ERA for the month.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. � The Cincinnati Reds have the worst record in the National League at 24-43, but they still have a better record than the Kansas City Royals.

The Reds beat the Royals 5-1 in 10 innings Tuesday. The Royals have dropped eight of their past nine and are 22-45 overall. Only the Baltimore Orioles (19-47) have a worst record.

The Royals are 23 games below .500 for the first time since Sept. 13 Odell Beckham Jr Giants Jersey , 2011, when they were 63-86.

The Reds will go for a sweep of the two-game mini-series in Kansas City on Wednesday night. The Reds� victory Tuesday was their first over the Royals since June 12, 2010.

Right-hander Tyler Mahle of the Reds and Jason Hammel of the Royals are scheduled starting pitchers for the series finale.

Mahle (4-6, 4.33 ERA) is 1-0 in two June starts, allowing 11 hits and two earned runs in 10 innings, while striking out 11 and walking four.

This will be Mahle�s first time facing the Royals, but not his first time on the Kaufman Stadium mound. He threw a mound session before the 2013 draft when the Reds chose him in the seventh round.

�They had a high school workout,� Mahle said. �Pitchers just threw a bullpen off the game mound; that was it. All the scouts were here.�

He said never pitching against the Royals does not change his preparation.

�It�s the same between every start,� Mahle said. �I prepare to go out there and hit my spots and compete. It�s a new team, and I�ve never seen them play before, so I�m going to do my homework and kind of make a game plan out of it.�

He said he pitches not to the Royals� weaknesses Jets Clive Walford Jersey , but his strengths.

�You always play to your own strength,� he said. �We�re going to find out what their weaknesses are and kind of find something there in the middle. I throw a lot of fastballs, but if there�s a guy who likes a lot of fastballs, it kind of collides there.

�But, at the same time, if you hit spots, good things are going to happen. Obviously if you throw it down the middle, he�s going to hit it, but if you hit a corner, or something like that, always if you make your pitch http://www.lionsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-kerryon-johnson-jersey , good things are going to happen.�

Good things happened to the Reds in the Tuesday victory. They trailed 1-0 entering the ninth, but Tucker Barnhart led off the inning with a blast off Kelvin Herrera that landed in the Royals� bullpen.

�That is against one of the best closers in the game, so that was huge,� Reds manager Jim Riggleman said. �Both pitchers are pitching so good it�s probably going to be a home-run type game. Nobody was putting a rally together. They got one and we got one, and our bullpen really did a great job.�

Hammel (2-6, 5.12 ERA) is 2-1 with a 2.59 ERA in his last four starts after a 13-start winless streak in which he went 0-8 with a 7.28 ERA. He has issued two or fewer walks in 10 of his 13 starts this season.

Hammel is 0-3 with a 4.70 ERA in five home starts this year and is winless in his last seven Kauffman Stadium starts dating to Aug. 20.

He is 4-1 with a 3.42 ERA in 12 career outings (11 starts) against the Reds. He has won his last four starts against Cincinnati with a 0.75 ERA, but has not faced the Reds since 2016.
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