NEW YORK (AP) -- Lucas Duda drove in the winning run on the Cincinnati Reds' second bungled infield chance in the 13th inning, finally lifting the New York Mets to a 2-1 victory Sunday in the completion of a game suspended by rain a day earlier.Curtis Granderson homered for New York and Brandon Phillips had an RBI double for the Reds on Saturday before the game was cut short after six innings with the score tied 1-all.Granderson had a big hit in the 13th on Sunday, a single to right field off Nate Adcock (0-1) after Dilson Herrera drew a leadoff walk. Herrera raced to third base, and the Reds brought their infield in. 
Eugenio Suarez, who was pinch-hitting in the top half when Ivan DeJesus Jr. was caught stealing to end the inning, could not handle Ruben Tejada's grounder to shortstop for an error that loaded the bases.Cincinnati then brought in left fielder Skip Schumaker to form a five-man infield.Coming to bat almost 24 hours since the first pitch was thrown Saturday, Duda hit a high chopper to first baseman Joey Votto, who leaped and initially snagged the ball before it fell out of his glove, giving him no play. Herrera slid home to give the Mets their third straight win without scoring more than two runs in any of them.Bobby Parnell (1-0) pitched an inning in his sixth appearance since returning from Tommy John surgery. He earned his first win since June 6, 2013.Reds slugger Todd Frazier fouled out with the bases loaded in the seventh, and both struggling lineups had chances to score in the late innings. Gold Glove center fielder Juan Lagares robbed Cincinnati's Jay Bruce of a homer in the eighth, and two fantastic plays by Schumaker in the seventh thwarted the Mets.New York failed to take advantage of a two-base error by Votto in the 11th and went 0 for 15 with runners in scoring position for the game. The Reds left 12 on base.Sunday's regularly scheduled game featured the heralded debut of Mets lefty Steven Matz, who grew up about an hour from Citi Field on Long Island. He was called up as New York's 26th player on the roster.Matz is the latest - and perhaps last - in a stellar crop of young pitchers to make their major league debuts with the Mets. The ace of the group, Matt Harvey, gave up a run over six solid innings in the rain Saturday night before being lifted for a pinch-hitter.Carlos Torres was announced as the Mets' first reliever, but the game was suspended before he took the mound.When the game was restarted, 20 minutes after the planned time because of more early rain in New York, the official scorer announced Reds rookie right-hander Michael Lorenzen's line - he was lifted in the sixth inning Saturday night.The Reds loaded the bases in the seventh, but Hansel Robles got Frazier to foul out. The fans then sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch.Schumaker made two spectacular plays in left field to help keep the Mets off the board in the bottom half, with steady drizzle coming down. He made a lunging, tumbling catch on Tejada's drive into the corner for the first out. Then he fielded the carom of Duda's smash off the wall and threw perfectly to second base to get Duda trying to stretch it into a double.Not to be outdone, Lagares jumped at the wall in left-center to rob Bruce of a homer in the eighth.Lorenzen matched Harvey most of the way Saturday and received relief help from Manny Parra, who retired Granderson on a 3-1 pitch with the bases loaded to end the sixth.With the rain getting heavier, umpires stopped play and signaled for the tarp. The game was called following a 53-minute delay.Phillips' double gave him a hit in all 31 road games he's played against the Mets.
Eugenio Suarez, who was pinch-hitting in the top half when Ivan DeJesus Jr. was caught stealing to end the inning, could not handle Ruben Tejada's grounder to shortstop for an error that loaded the bases.Cincinnati then brought in left fielder Skip Schumaker to form a five-man infield.Coming to bat almost 24 hours since the first pitch was thrown Saturday, Duda hit a high chopper to first baseman Joey Votto, who leaped and initially snagged the ball before it fell out of his glove, giving him no play. Herrera slid home to give the Mets their third straight win without scoring more than two runs in any of them.Bobby Parnell (1-0) pitched an inning in his sixth appearance since returning from Tommy John surgery. He earned his first win since June 6, 2013.Reds slugger Todd Frazier fouled out with the bases loaded in the seventh, and both struggling lineups had chances to score in the late innings. Gold Glove center fielder Juan Lagares robbed Cincinnati's Jay Bruce of a homer in the eighth, and two fantastic plays by Schumaker in the seventh thwarted the Mets.New York failed to take advantage of a two-base error by Votto in the 11th and went 0 for 15 with runners in scoring position for the game. The Reds left 12 on base.Sunday's regularly scheduled game featured the heralded debut of Mets lefty Steven Matz, who grew up about an hour from Citi Field on Long Island. He was called up as New York's 26th player on the roster.Matz is the latest - and perhaps last - in a stellar crop of young pitchers to make their major league debuts with the Mets. The ace of the group, Matt Harvey, gave up a run over six solid innings in the rain Saturday night before being lifted for a pinch-hitter.Carlos Torres was announced as the Mets' first reliever, but the game was suspended before he took the mound.When the game was restarted, 20 minutes after the planned time because of more early rain in New York, the official scorer announced Reds rookie right-hander Michael Lorenzen's line - he was lifted in the sixth inning Saturday night.The Reds loaded the bases in the seventh, but Hansel Robles got Frazier to foul out. The fans then sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch.Schumaker made two spectacular plays in left field to help keep the Mets off the board in the bottom half, with steady drizzle coming down. He made a lunging, tumbling catch on Tejada's drive into the corner for the first out. Then he fielded the carom of Duda's smash off the wall and threw perfectly to second base to get Duda trying to stretch it into a double.Not to be outdone, Lagares jumped at the wall in left-center to rob Bruce of a homer in the eighth.Lorenzen matched Harvey most of the way Saturday and received relief help from Manny Parra, who retired Granderson on a 3-1 pitch with the bases loaded to end the sixth.With the rain getting heavier, umpires stopped play and signaled for the tarp. The game was called following a 53-minute delay.Phillips' double gave him a hit in all 31 road games he's played against the Mets.
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