NEW YORK (AP) -- Ryan Braun homered twice and made a marvelous catch, leading Kyle Lohse and the Milwaukee Brewers to a 7-0 victory over the slumping New York Mets on Friday night.Lohse (3-4) allowed two harmless hits in eight crisp innings. Gerardo Parra also homered and hit an RBI double for the last-place Brewers, who battered Bartolo Colon (6-2) to win their first road game under new manager Craig Counsell.They did it in a ballpark where they're accustomed to success - Milwaukee has won 13 of its past 16 at Citi Field, where the Brewers are 14-6 overall for the best winning percentage (.700) of any National League team. 
Back home after getting swept by the Chicago Cubs in four games at Wrigley Field, the NL East-leading Mets dropped their season-worst fifth straight.The Mets also announced in the late innings that second baseman Dilson Herrera had fractured the tip of his middle finger on his throwing hand while taking pregame grounders, and would go on the disabled list.Aramis Ramirez had three hits in his return to the Milwaukee lineup, including a go-ahead RBI double.Lohse struck out eight, walked one and used the large dimensions in center field to his advantage. Michael Blazek completed a three-hitter that took only 2 hours, 18 minutes.Pitching nine days before his 42nd birthday, Colon was trying to become the first seven-game winner in the majors. Instead, he was tagged for six runs - five earned - and seven hits over five innings, his poorest outing of the year.About the only positive for Colon was that he extended his streak without a walk to 45 1-3 innings.Knowing the veteran right-hander would be throwing strikes, the Brewers came out swinging early in the count. Adam Lind and Ramirez cracked consecutive doubles in the second before shaky Mets shortstop Wilmer Flores made his ninth error of the season in the third, beginning a four-run rally for Milwaukee.Carlos Gomez drove an RBI double off the top of the left-center wall, and right fielder Curtis Granderson misplayed Parra's run-scoring double that sailed over his head.Braun sent Colon's next pitch into the second deck in left field to make it 5-0.Parra homered leading off the fifth, and Braun hit an opposite-field shot to right-center against Carlos Torres in the eighth. It was the slugger's 22nd multihomer game and second this season. The other one came on April 29 at Cincinnati.Braun also made an astonishing grab to end the second, diving full out at the edge of the warning track in right-center after a long run to rob Flores of an extra-base hit.Lohse and several other teammates waited for Braun near third base to give him high-fives and pats on the back.
Back home after getting swept by the Chicago Cubs in four games at Wrigley Field, the NL East-leading Mets dropped their season-worst fifth straight.The Mets also announced in the late innings that second baseman Dilson Herrera had fractured the tip of his middle finger on his throwing hand while taking pregame grounders, and would go on the disabled list.Aramis Ramirez had three hits in his return to the Milwaukee lineup, including a go-ahead RBI double.Lohse struck out eight, walked one and used the large dimensions in center field to his advantage. Michael Blazek completed a three-hitter that took only 2 hours, 18 minutes.Pitching nine days before his 42nd birthday, Colon was trying to become the first seven-game winner in the majors. Instead, he was tagged for six runs - five earned - and seven hits over five innings, his poorest outing of the year.About the only positive for Colon was that he extended his streak without a walk to 45 1-3 innings.Knowing the veteran right-hander would be throwing strikes, the Brewers came out swinging early in the count. Adam Lind and Ramirez cracked consecutive doubles in the second before shaky Mets shortstop Wilmer Flores made his ninth error of the season in the third, beginning a four-run rally for Milwaukee.Carlos Gomez drove an RBI double off the top of the left-center wall, and right fielder Curtis Granderson misplayed Parra's run-scoring double that sailed over his head.Braun sent Colon's next pitch into the second deck in left field to make it 5-0.Parra homered leading off the fifth, and Braun hit an opposite-field shot to right-center against Carlos Torres in the eighth. It was the slugger's 22nd multihomer game and second this season. The other one came on April 29 at Cincinnati.Braun also made an astonishing grab to end the second, diving full out at the edge of the warning track in right-center after a long run to rob Flores of an extra-base hit.Lohse and several other teammates waited for Braun near third base to give him high-fives and pats on the back.
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