Redding pitches 6 2-3 innings, Mets total 17 hits to beat Marlins 10-3

Redding, Mets beat Marlins 10-3

MIAMI — Tim Redding pitched 6 2-3 innings Thursday to give the Mets’ injury-ravaged staff a boost and help New York snap a five-game skid with a 10-3 victory over the Florida Marlins.

Redding (2-4), making his second start since July 2, allowed three runs — all on leadoff homers — and five hits.

New York scored nine runs with two out and tied a season high with 17 hits. Florida fielding lapses led to five runs.

Fernando Tatis connected in the eighth to finish 6 for 13 in the series, and Angel Pagan also homered for the Mets. Daniel Murphy doubled twice and drove in three runs. Wilson Valdez reached base four times, scored twice and drove in a run.

The Mets salvaged something from their visit to Miami after losing three pitchers in the first two days of the series with season-ending injuries.

Chris Coghlan led off the Marlins’ first inning with a home run and went deep again in the sixth. Dan Uggla hit his 23rd homer to start the seventh, but that still left Florida trailing 8-3.

The Marlins’ Anibal Sanchez (2-5) lasted only 3 2-3 innings in his second start since recovering from a shoulder strain that put him on the disabled list. He allowed four runs, two earned, and eight hits.

The Mets scored two unearned runs in the second thanks to an error by first baseman Ross Gload, and added three in the fifth after center fielder Cody Ross hesitated when he had a chance to throw out a runner at third.

Less than 5,000 spectators turned out for the afternoon game, but there were enough transplanted New Yorkers to muster an occasional chant of “Let’s go Mets.”

They had plenty to cheer about. The Mets trailed 1-0 before scoring three times in the second. Anderson Hernandez doubled in the first run, and another came home when Gload misplayed a sharp grounder by Valdez. Murphy followed with an RBI double.

Valdez reached on a bunt single in the fourth, advanced on an error and scored on Jeff Francoeur’s two-out single.

New York scored four runs in the fifth — all with two out — to make it 8-1. Valdez hit an RBI single, Murphy doubled home two runs and Francoeur added a run-scoring single.

NOTES: Mets LHP Pat Misch will make his first start of the season Friday against the Cubs. … The Mets gave 2B Luis Castillo and LF Gary Sheffield the day off. Sheffield is nursing a sore back. … Marlins C John Baker (back) took the day off. … Before his homer, Uggla was 1 for 14 lifetime with eight strikeouts against Redding.