PHILADELPHIA -AP- Bartolo Colon pitched eight innings for his 200th career victory, Travis d'Arnaud homered and the New York Mets held on for a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night.Daniel Murphy recorded his fifth straight multihit game with two singles for the Mets, who have won 10 of their last 11 games in Philadelphia. New York has outscored Philadelphia 63-32 during those contests.Marlon Byrd homered, Grady Sizemore drove in two runs and hot-hitting Ben Revere had two of the Phillies' nine hits. 
Revere is batting a major league-best .388 since June 26.The 41-year-old Colon joined Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal as the only Dominican-born pitchers to reach 200 victories. He gave up one run and six hits, struck out six and walked none.Colon (11-9) didn't allow a batter to reach second base except for Byrd, who led off the seventh with a drive over the wall in left for his 22nd homer. Colon departed after throwing 107 pitches.Philadelphia's A.J. Burnett (6-12) surrendered 11 hits, tying a season high, resulting in five runs in his third consecutive loss. The right-hander struck out eight and walked two while falling to 0-4 with a 6.66 ERA in his last five starts.The Mets nearly blew it in the ninth when Philadelphia scored three runs on three hits.Chase Utley doubled and Ryan Howard walked against left-hander Dana Eveland. Closer Jenrry Mejia relieved Eveland and Byrd singled to load the bases. Sizemore then lined a two-run double off the wall in right that trimmed New York's lead to 5-3.Right fielder Curtis Granderson made a diving catch on Carlos Ruiz's sinking liner to save at least one run for the first out. After Cody Asche had a run-scoring groundout, Mejia struck out pinch-hitter Reid Brignac for his 17th save in 19 opportunities.The Mets got on the board in the fourth inning, with Juan Lagares, Wilmer Flores, Granderson and Murphy each driving in a run. D'Arnaud's eighth homer in the fifth put New York ahead 5-0.The only spot where Colon struggled was the batter's box, where the historically poor hitter went 0 for 4 with four strikeouts -- two of which came on failed sacrifice attempts. A career .087 hitter entering Friday, Colon's averaged dipped to .043 with 28 strikeouts in 46 at-bats this season.Murphy is batting .456 in his last 13 games and upped his NL-leading hits total to 144.The Phillies bullpen, which didn't give up a run in 13 2/3 innings in a three-game sweep of Houston prior to the Mets series, allowed one hit in three scoreless frames.
Revere is batting a major league-best .388 since June 26.The 41-year-old Colon joined Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal as the only Dominican-born pitchers to reach 200 victories. He gave up one run and six hits, struck out six and walked none.Colon (11-9) didn't allow a batter to reach second base except for Byrd, who led off the seventh with a drive over the wall in left for his 22nd homer. Colon departed after throwing 107 pitches.Philadelphia's A.J. Burnett (6-12) surrendered 11 hits, tying a season high, resulting in five runs in his third consecutive loss. The right-hander struck out eight and walked two while falling to 0-4 with a 6.66 ERA in his last five starts.The Mets nearly blew it in the ninth when Philadelphia scored three runs on three hits.Chase Utley doubled and Ryan Howard walked against left-hander Dana Eveland. Closer Jenrry Mejia relieved Eveland and Byrd singled to load the bases. Sizemore then lined a two-run double off the wall in right that trimmed New York's lead to 5-3.Right fielder Curtis Granderson made a diving catch on Carlos Ruiz's sinking liner to save at least one run for the first out. After Cody Asche had a run-scoring groundout, Mejia struck out pinch-hitter Reid Brignac for his 17th save in 19 opportunities.The Mets got on the board in the fourth inning, with Juan Lagares, Wilmer Flores, Granderson and Murphy each driving in a run. D'Arnaud's eighth homer in the fifth put New York ahead 5-0.The only spot where Colon struggled was the batter's box, where the historically poor hitter went 0 for 4 with four strikeouts -- two of which came on failed sacrifice attempts. A career .087 hitter entering Friday, Colon's averaged dipped to .043 with 28 strikeouts in 46 at-bats this season.Murphy is batting .456 in his last 13 games and upped his NL-leading hits total to 144.The Phillies bullpen, which didn't give up a run in 13 2/3 innings in a three-game sweep of Houston prior to the Mets series, allowed one hit in three scoreless frames.
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