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NEW YORK (AP) -- In the short time he pitched Thursday, Mike
Hampton earned the admiration of the Colorado Rockies.
"It was a really smart move on his part to come out, not to
push it to get a win just because they had a cushion," Terry
Shumpert said after Hampton helped the Mets beat the Rockies 13-2.
|  | | Mike Hampton walks off the mound, leaving the game in the fourth inning after apparently breaking a rib during an earlier at-bat. |
Hampton left the game with a broken rib and reliever Turk
Wendell (5-4) won, backed by homers from Todd Zeile, Benny
Agbayani, Robin Ventura and Mike Bordick.
"I cringed when I saw him come out," Mets manager Bobby
Valentine said. "We are optimistic that he'll be OK."
Hampton apparently injured himself while batting in the third
inning, then walked Todd Helton opening the fourth and threw ball
one to Jeffrey Hammonds before the Mets took him out.
"You don't ever want to turn a game over that soon, but I had
no choice," Hampton said.
He may have aggravated an old football injury.
"I have a thought where it might have been in high school, when
I had to come out of a football game early, but that was 10 years
ago," Hampton said.
The Mets said the injury is a small stress fracture on the right
side of his rib cage. Hampton is day to day.
Wendell struck out a career-high six in four innings, his
longest appearance since September 1997. He allowed two runs -- one
earned -- and one hit.
"Today was just a fun day," said Wendell, who singled, one of
the Mets' 15 hits off four pitchers, "I'm just sorry that it came
about this way. I know Mike is hurting a little bit."
Ventura, Zeile and Bordick each had three RBIs for the Mets, who
pulled within 2½ games of idle Atlanta, the NL East leader.
Ex-Met Masato Yoshii (5-13). the Rockies starter, allowed nine
runs, 10 hits and five walks in five innings.
Todd Helton was 1-for-1 with a walk, raising his major
league-leading average to .396.
Ventura's sacrifice fly and Zeile's RBI single put the Mets
ahead 2-0 in the first. and New York added three runs in the third
on sacrifice flies by Ventura and Agbayani, and Bordick's RBI
single.
New York made it 9-0 in the fifth. Zeile hit a two-run homer,
Agbayani followed with his 10th homer and Yoshii threw a wild pitch
with a runner on third.
Ventura homered in the sixth off Bobby Chouinard and Bordick hit
a two-run homer in the seventh off Craig House. Bubba Trammell
added an RBI double.
Colorado scored twice in the seventh when Todd Hollingsworth hit
an RBI double and came home on throwing errors by second baseman
Kurt Abbott and Wendell.
Game
notes
Wendell's single in the seventh inning was his first as a
Met (he had been hitless in 15 at bats). ... Zeile's homer in the
fifth was the 200th of his career. ... Yoshii is 0-2 against the
Mets since being traded by New York. ... Rockies finished 5-4 on a
9-game road trip despite losing three of four to the Mets. ...
Wendell last worked four innings on Sept. 2, 1997, against Toronto
when he earned a save for the Mets.
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