With everyone in the world (including Howie Rose and Josh Lewin) first-guessing his decision to lift Jacob deGrom (a. 200 hitter) for Eric Campbell (a. 175 hitter) in the seventh inning with the game on the line, Campbell delivers a two-run single that sparks the Mets to a 7-2 win.

New York Mets’ Wilmer Flores hits an RBI single during the fourth inning of a baseball game agai …

Harvey finished strong, retiring fourteen consecutive Nationals to end his night after allowing a walk to Jose Lobaton in the third inning, but the damage was already done.

Ross and deGrom continued their quality outings against the respective opposition’s batting order up until the seventh inning when a couple hits and an error gave New York a 3-2 lead.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Albert Pujols hit three homers while the Angels swept a doubleheader from the Boston Red Sox, connecting twice and seizing the major league lead from Mike Trout during Los Angeles’ victory in the nightcap.

Nationals: Werth (bruised left wrist) and Rendon (strained left quad) were scheduled to play in minor league games Monday. Pujols, Kole Calhoun and David Freese homered during an 11-1 win in the first game. Before the streak, he allowed more than three walks once in his career. Knuckleballer Steven Wright (3-3) took the loss. The Nationals and Mets have split the first two games of the series. He struck out eight without a walk to beat the division-rival Nationals for the first time in four tries. He gave up three runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings. He moved to third on a groundout and scored on a single by Flores, who had two RBIs.

The Mets exploded for four more runs in the ninth, but still opted to bring in closer Jeurys Familia to finish the game with a five-run lead.

Markakis hit a two-run homer to center field off Beachy in the first inning. He only had a chance to start 3 games this season before he was sent back down, going 2-1 with a 2.66 ERA. Ross matches up with the Pirates in Pittsburgh next.

Curtis Granderson is 9 for 27 with three extra-base hits in the past six games, including three hits in this series. He homered in the fifth with Jung Ho Kang aboard.

Wilson relieved and yielded a run-scoring hit to J.J. He completed the cycle with a triple to center leading off the ninth. It was the fourth straight start, and sixth in the last seven in which he allowed two earned runs or less. The Mets offense went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position while being 4 for 72 in that type of situation.

The two runs he allowed last night came on an 0-2 fastball to Harvey that got too much of the plate. Besides Karns, only two other batters reached second base.

Derek Dietrich homered for the Marlins. Craig Kimbrel threw a flawless ninth on four pitches for his 26th save.

Speaking of Triple-A, Ross has made 5 starts there and has looked really good. He allowed three runs and five hits in four-plus innings.