Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - Ike Davis launched a monster home run to the second deck in right-center field leading off the bottom of the 11th to give the Mets a 2-1 win over San Diego in the first of a three-game set from Citi Field.
Ike Davis Walk-Off Leads Surging Mets Over Padres In 11
Jose Reyes hit a solo home run, his second of the year, to tie the game in the seventh, while Mike Pelfrey pitched masterfully despite being saddled with a tough no-decision.
The emerging staff mainstay came in with wins in his last four starts and did all he could over nine innings of one-run, five-hit ball to extend that streak. He struck out six, did not walk a batter and lowered his earned run average to 2.23 through 12 starts.
Elmer Dessens (1-1) recorded the final out in the top half to get the win for New York, which has won 11 of its last 15 games.
San Diego starter Clayton Richard worked effectively through seven innings, scattering seven hits and one run with six strikeouts and one walk.
Adrian Gonzalez doubled in the lone run for San Diego, which was coming off a four-game split in Philadelphia and moved to 2-3 on a seven-game road trip.
Edward Mujica (2-1) was one three San Diego relievers to have blanked New York with an inning of work each after Richard's departure. However, it took just three changeups to Davis to begin the 11th before the ball was taking a wild carom off a railing about a dozen rows deep in the second-deck bleachers.
The Mets needed help from a replay review to bring across the tying run in the seventh. Reyes' fly to left-center was originally ruled in play, but the hit was ruled a homer after replays showed the ball hit above the line on top of the padded wall but below a metal fence protruding higher still.
Lance Zawadzki hit for Richard with one out in the eighth and doubled but was stranded there. Mike Adams took over pitching duties for San Diego and recorded three quick outs in the bottom half.
A David Wright throwing error allowed Scott Hairston to reach second base with one down in the ninth, but Pelfrey recovered to get the next two. Luke Gregerson fired a spotless frame to move the game to extras.
The zeros continued in the 10th as Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez posted a 1-2-3 inning, and Mujica got Bay to hit a weak ground ball out following a two-out triple by Angel Pagan.
Pedro Feliciano started the 11th by yielding a bloop single to David Eckstein, who was sacrificed to second. Gonzalez lined out to third and Dessens came on to strike out Hairston.
In a sign of things that weren't to come for either side, the Padres plated a run in the first half-inning, as Chase Headley singled and Gonzalez lifted a double to left for a 1-0 edge.
The Mets moved a runner to third in their first at-bat, but Bay and Davis both struck out. New York went on to strand runners in scoring position in three of the next four innings, as Bay fanned to end the fifth with runners at the corners.
The Padres, meanwhile, had just four baserunners from the second inning on until it went to extras.
Although the Mets failed to get it for him Tuesday, Pelfrey’s last complete game came back on August 25, 2008 -- the second of back-to-back CG’s in wins over Atlanta and Houston...Pagan has four triples on the year...New York was 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position...Davis’ homer was his seventh and gave the Mets their third walk-off win of the season...San Diego won a three- game series versus the Mets at Petco Park from May 31-June 2 and is 14-6 in the past 20 meetings between the teams...The Padres went 0-for-9 with RISP.
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