PITTSBURGH — Jonathon Niese allowed one run in 7 2-3 innings, helping the Mets beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 Wednesday for their third win in four games.
Niese (3-2) gave up five hits, struck out five and walked two, five days after matching his career high by allowing eight runs in a 14-5 loss at Toronto.
Bobby Parnell struck out Andrew McCutchen with runners on second and third to end the eighth. Frank Francisco completed the five-hitter with a perfect ninth for his third save in four days, his 12th in 14 chances this season.
New York improved to 15-6 in games decided by two runs or fewer, second in the majors behind Baltimore. For the second straight game, the Mets scored all their runs with two outs.
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Kirk Nieuwenhuis (L) gets congratulations from Mets manager Terry Collins and teammates after scoring on a Lucas Duda single in the first inning.
Charlie Morton (2-5) lost for the fourth time in five starts, allowing three runs and eight hits in seven innings. The Pirates have lost three of four and four of six.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis reached on a one-out single in the first and scored on Lucas Duda's single. Nieuwenhuis sacrifice fly and David Wright's RBI double - the only extra-base hit for the Mets - made it 3-0 in the fifth.
Josh Harrison doubled for Pittsburgh leading off the sixth and scored on McCutchen's single.
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