Starter retires 16 in a row; trio of homers foil Mets ace Santana
By Adam McCalvy / MLB. com
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_______1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - R H E
MIL (7-4) 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 - 5 7 1
NYM (5-5) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 - 3 5 2

WP: Ben Sheets (2-0, 1.

17)
LP: Johan Santana (1-2, 3.

05)
Save: Eric Gagne (2)

HR: MIL: Bill Hall (5), Gabe Kapler (3), Rickie Weeks (2).


HR: NYM: David Wright (2).



NEW YORK -- The Brewers hit three home runs off Johan Santana to back
Ben Sheets, who surrendered a run for the first time this season but
was good enough to beat the Mets, 5-3, at Shea Stadium on Saturday.



Bill Hall, Rickie Weeks and Gabe Kapler homered as the Brewers fought
back from a 2-0 first-inning hole against Mets left-hander Santana
(1-2), who made his first home start and was booed as he left the
mound after Kapler's two-run homer in the seventh inning.



Sheets (2-0) entered with 15 2/3 scoreless innings this season, but
surrendered a pair of runs on three hits in the first inning before
locking down. He worked around a walk and a hit in a scoreless second
inning, getting David Wright on a groundout for the first of 18 Mets
retired in order.



Wright ended that streak with a bang in the eighth inning, when his
two-out solo home run cut Milwaukee's lead to 5-3. Sheets walked the
next hitter, Carlos Beltran, but reliever Brian Shouse fielded a
Carlos Delgado comebacker to end the inning. Shouse has stranded all
eight of his inherited baserunners this season.



Brewers closer Eric Gagne worked the ninth for his second save.



Sheets also notched an RBI thanks to Corey Hart, who wisely broke for
home when Santana threw Sheets out on a second-inning sacrifice bunt.
Hall tied the game at 2 with a solo home run leading off the fourth
inning, and Weeks put the Brewers ahead with a 425-foot blast in the
fifth.



Kapler's two-run homer with two outs in the seventh inning chased
Santana from the game. The Brewers snapped a three-game losing streak.



Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB. com.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or
its clubs.



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