The Mets scored a run after Bailey had them with two outs and nobody on base. David Murphy singled and stole second. David Wright delivered him with a single. The Mets had a .359 on base percentage with two outs in an inning; that leads the NL. They have also scored a 197 runs with two outs, also an NL high.
The Reds fought back against Capuano, scoring two in the home half of the first. Drew Stubbs led off the game with a walk, like a leadoff hitter is supposed to do. Joey Votto drove him in with a double and scored on a double by Brandon Phillips, like a cleanup hitter is supposed to do.
The Mets didn't wait until two were out score the rest of its next eight markers.
Lucus Duda hit a three-run double with one out in the fourth. Jason Bay knocked Bailey out of the game before the Reds pitcher retired anyone in the fifth. Bay's three run double was the end for Bailey.
"It happened so fast that Sam LeCure couldn't get warmed up in time," Dusty Baker said. "The Mets hit line drives all series. They didn't pop any up or hit any on the ground. What did they score, 30 runs this series? You look at their averages coming into the series and they all left 12 points higher. That's hard to do this late in the season."
Bailey was coming off two good, winning starts over St. Louis and Atlanta but couldn't put the ball where he wanted against the red-hot Mets.
"Everytime I'd try to throw to the glove side, I left the ball out over the plate," Bailey said.
Bailey almost got off the hook for the loss as the Reds ripped Capuano in the sixth to get within striking distance.
Jay Bruce singled and scored on a double by Ramon Hernandez. After Todd Frazier walked, Miguel Cairo hit his second career pinch-hit home run off Manny Acosta to pull the Reds within two. Jay Bruce doubled home Chris Heisey to make the score 9-8 after seven.
"We got enough offense to win," Bailey said. "We should have won the game. When a starter doesn't do his job, that's what happens."
Jose Arredondo and Aroldis Chapman held the Mets. Chapman walked Jose Reyes with one out in the eighth. Chapman had retired the last 17 batters he faced until then. He also finished the eighth with no damage.
Logan Ondrusek struggled in the ninth but was within a pitch of getting out of a bases loaded jam when he threw a pitch that Hernandez couldn't block.
Votto hit a home run off Jason Isringhausen to open the ninth. Absent the wild pitch, Votto's home run would have tied the game. Isringhausen rallied to retire, Phillips, Heisey and Bruce in order to earn his second save of the series.Cairo had plenty to say about the team but nothing about his home run. He accepted the loss but did not like it one bit.
"You got to put it behind. Tomorrow is another day. We have San Francisco the next three days, we got to put it behind. We got to start playing the way we know how to play. You know, we stink. Right now as a team we stink. We don't do the little things to win games. It's not like everything is going wrong. You have to make it happen. You don't go out there in the field and go, 'oh everything is going to go wrong'. The attitude we have to have is tomorrow's another day and the attitude we have to have is to expect to win. Right now I don't think we have that attitude. I don't like to lose. No one likes to lose. We have to change our attitude. San Francisco is coming in here and they are going to try to kick out butt. We have to do something about it. We have to take our tail out of our butt. Everyone has to put a little more effort than what we've been doing," Cairo said.
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