Feliciano’s triple, Beltran’s sac fly in 9th help Mets finish rally in 5-4 win over Arizona

Mets rally, beat Arizona 5-4 on Beltran’s sac fly

NEW YORK — Jesus Feliciano tripled and scored on Carlos Beltran’s sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, giving the New York Mets a 5-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night.

David Wright drove in three runs, including a tying single in the seventh off Arizona newcomer D.J. Carrasco, and New York finally beat the last-place Diamondbacks for the first time in five meetings this season.

The Mets, conspicuously quiet at the trade deadline after falling off the playoff pace this month, got a stellar start from Hisanori Takahashi and won for only the sixth time in 20 games.

The rebuilding Diamondbacks, who made a flurry of deals leading up to Saturday’s non-waiver deadline, have lost eight of nine. Justin Upton had three RBIs for Arizona and extended his hitting streak to a team-high 16 games.

Feliciano, called up Friday from Triple-A Buffalo when outfielder Jason Bay went on the disabled list with a concussion, entered on defense in the seventh and opened the ninth with a long drive to right-center against Juan Gutierrez (0-6).

Jose Reyes flied out to shallow right, keeping Feliciano at third, before the Diamondbacks intentionally walked Angel Pagan and Wright to set up a force at the plate.

Beltran lifted a drive to deep right-center that was caught near the warning track by Upton, who didn’t even make a throw as Feliciano scored easily.

Francisco Rodriguez (4-2) struck out two in a perfect ninth for the win. Feliciano was pelted with a cream pie in the face during an on-field TV interview.

Rookie right-hander Barry Enright pitched six effective innings and left with a chance for his second win over the Mets in 12 days. But Carrasco, acquired from Pittsburgh earlier in the day, couldn’t hold a 4-2 lead.

Carrasco retired his first two batters in the seventh, then walked Reyes. Pagan followed with a single and scored from first with a headfirst slide when Wright lined a two-run double into the right-field corner.

Jordan Norberto, the only left-hander in Arizona’s bullpen, threw a called third strike past Ike Davis with two on to end the inning.

Takahashi struck out a career-high 10, the most by a Mets pitcher since Nelson Figueroa fanned 10 Chicago Cubs on Aug. 30, 2009, at Wrigley Field.

The 35-year-old rookie from Japan stranded seven runners over six innings. He threw a season-high 112 pitches and left with a 2-1 lead that was quickly squandered by Bobby Parnell.

Pinch-hitter Tony Abreu doubled to open the seventh and Upton’s two-run single with the bases loaded put Arizona ahead. Pedro Feliciano relieved. Adam LaRoche dribbled a slow roller toward first base and Kelly Johnson beat Davis’ toss to the plate to make it 4-2.

Feliciano avoided further damage by getting Miguel Montero to ground into a double play and striking out Mark Reynolds, who fanned all four times up, increasing his major league-leading total to 147.

Parnell allowed all four batters he faced to reach safely, including three hits.

Takahashi was ahead 0-2 on No. 8 batter Augie Ojeda before issuing a leadoff walk in the third. Ojeda scored on Upton’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly.

New York tied it in the bottom half when Pagan hit a ground-rule double with two outs and Wright followed with a single.

Wright also homered twice and drove in five runs Friday night during a 9-6 loss.

Luis Castillo drew a leadoff walk from Enright in the fifth and advanced on Takahashi’s two-strike sacrifice. Reyes put the Mets up 2-1 with an RBI single that extended his hitting streak to 12 games, longest by a Mets player this season.

NOTES: Four key members of New York’s hard-partying 1986 World Series championship team will be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame during a pregame ceremony Sunday: outfielder Darryl Strawberry, pitcher Dwight Gooden, manager Davey Johnson and GM Frank Cashen. “These guys, they weren’t choir boys, but they weren’t as bad as everybody said,” Johnson explained during a Citi Field press conference Saturday Cashen, in a wheelchair, wore his signature bowtie. Mets colors, of course — blue and orange. … After trading C Chris Snyder to the Pirates in the deal that brought Carrasco, Arizona recalled C John Hester from Triple-A Reno. He could catch newcomer Daniel Hudson on Sunday, interim manager Kirk Gibson said. Hudson was acquired Friday from the Chicago White Sox as part of a deal for RHP Edwin Jackson.