Major League Baseball
Arizona 13, NY Mets 5
When: 9:40 PM ET, Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Chad Fairchild, 1B - James Hoye, 2B - Tom Woodring, 3B - Marvin Hudson
Attendance: 18469

PHOENIX -- There was a time when Rickie Weeks Jr. would have bristled at being a role player. Fortunately for the Arizona Diamondbacks, those days are long gone.

Weeks and Yasmany Tomas each homered twice, and they combined to drive in 11 runs as the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the New York Mets 13-5 Wednesday night.

Tomas also tripled and finished with six RBIs. Weeks drove in five.

"It's just being a veteran, honestly," said Weeks, who started in left field, a position he only started playing last season. "Five or six years ago, I'd be mad not to be playing. But somebody has to do it, and if it has to be me, I'll be ready."

In his past 23 starts, Weeks has seven homers and 17 RBIs.

"If you take a look at all of his at-bats this season, there might be five or six that wouldn't have been quality at-bats that I'd circle," Arizona manager Chip Hale said.

Zack Godley (4-2) threw a career-high 7 1/3 innings for the Diamondbacks, who won two of three from the Mets to win consecutive home series for the first time since May.

Arizona won five of its six games against the Mets this season.

Godley, making his first start since Aug. 3, held the Mets to two runs on five hits with two walks and four strikeouts.

"My fastball was working really well," Godley said. "I was letting it hit the ground, and the defense played great behind me. Guys put the ball in play on me a lot, so the defense playing well behind me means everything."

Curtis Granderson and Rene Rivera hit ninth-inning homers for the Mets off Dominic Leone.

Mets left-hander Jonathon Niese (8-7), making his first start since July 10 when he was a member of the Pirates, allowed four runs on four hits over 4 2/3 innings. Niese struck out six and walked two during an 82-pitch outing.

"Besides them catching a couple of mistakes, it was pretty good," Niese said. "Now that I can get in a routine, I can work in the bullpen and work on my pitches a little better. The endurance wasn't there like it is normally out there, but I was still able to compete."

The Mets needed only four batters to take the lead against Godley. Jose Reyes led off the game with a sharp single to right, advanced on a pair of groundouts and scored on a wild pitch to put New York ahead 1-0.

That lead held until the fourth, when Paul Goldschmidt singled to lead off the inning for the Diamondbacks' first hit against Niese. Arizona's second and third hits came quickly, back-to-back towering home runs to left field by Weeks and Tomas, giving the Diamondbacks a 3-1 lead.

After allowing a leadoff single to Godley in the fifth, Niese retired the next two batters before giving way to Erik Goeddel.

Goeddel walked Goldschmidt before Weeks homered again to left, extending the Diamondbacks' lead to 6-1. It was Weeks' eighth career multi-homer game and first since June 25, 2013, against the Chicago Cubs as a member of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Goeddel faced a total of four batters without recording an out before he was replaced by Seth Lugo, who struck out Brandon Drury to end the inning.

"(Pitching coach) Dan (Warthen) and I talked before the game, and 95 was the limit," Mets manager Terry Collins said of Niese's pitch count. "He was going through that part of the order that kills lefties, and Goeddel was pitching pretty good until tonight, so it was the right move to make. We just didn't get the outs."

Tomas added a two-run triple and scored on a groundout in the seventh as the Diamondbacks opened a 9-1 lead.

Jay Bruce doubled home a run in the eighth to cut the lead to 9-2. Jean Segura scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the inning to make it 10-2. Tomas followed with a three-run homer off Josh Edgin to stretch the lead to 13-2.

It was the second time in three games the Diamondbacks scored 10 or more runs and also marked Tomas' seventh multi-homer game of the season.

"He looks good at the plate, and he's getting the right pitches to hit," Hale said.

NOTES: Mets 2B Neil Walker sat out for the second consecutive game due to lower back stiffness. T.J. Rivera, who started at third on Friday and had two errors to go with four hits, took Walker's place at second. ... Mets RHP Zack Wheeler has been shut down for two weeks with a mild flexor strain in his right forearm and may not pitch again this season. Wheeler is trying to work his way back from Tommy John surgery in March 2015 to repair a torn UCL and the flexor pronator tendon in his right elbow. ... Mets LHP Jonathon Niese made his 178th career start for New York, 10th on the franchise's all-time list. ... Arizona 3B Jake Lamb and OF Michael Bourn were given the night off with a left-hander on the mound. Brandon Drury replaced Lamb at third and Mitch Haniger, who doubled and tripled in his major league debut Tuesday, made his first start in center.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Mets   Arizona
Jonathon Niese Player Zack Godley
Loss W/L Win
4.2 IP 7.1
6 Strikeouts 4
4 Hits 5
7.71 ERA 2.45
Hitting
NY Mets   Arizona
Kelly Johnson Player Yasmany Tomas
3 Hits 3
0 RBI 6
0 HR 2
3 TB 11
.600 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Mets 10 2 19 .278 22 6 4 2 0 0
Arizona 12 4 27 .364 9 9 12 7 0 0