By DAVE SKRETTA
updated 5:32 p.m. ET April 23, 2011
NEW YORK - Jason Bay homered and drove in three runs, Ike Davis went deep for the third straight game and the peppy New York Mets held off the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 on Saturday for their third straight win.
Dillon Gee (2-0) went six innings and allowed two earned runs, an RBI triple by Stephen Drew and a solo homer by Miguel Montero that tied the game in the sixth.
Daniel Murphy made his young teammate a winner, though, atoning for an error that led to two unearned runs for Arizona with a go-ahead single later in the sixth inning. Murphy then gave the New York bullpen a bit of breathing room with another RBI single in the eighth.
Rookie reliever Pedro Beato ran his scoreless innings streak to 11 with a clean seventh, and Jason Isringhausen worked around a single in the eighth, before Francisco Rodriguez survived an adventure in the ninth.
The closer walked Juan Miranda and gave up a base hit to Gerardo Parra before striking out pinch-hitter Xavier Nady and leadoff man Chris Young for his fourth save.
Young finished 0 for 5 with a pair of strikeouts.
Barry Enright (0-2) got hammered again for Arizona, allowing five runs and 12 hits in 5 2-3 innings. He's allowed at least four runs in all four of his starts this season.
The Mets had a season-high 15 hits after rain delayed the start 1 hour, 21 minutes.
The Diamondbacks struck in the first inning when Drew ripped a triple down the first-base line to score Justin Upton. But the Mets answered in the bottom half, when Jose Reyes walked and David Wright singled ahead of Bay, who lined a two-out single up the middle.
The Mets extended their lead to 4-1 in the third, when Bay belted a two-out homer into the bullpens in right-center field. It was his first home run since June 28, 2010, before a concussion wiped out the second half of last season and a strained ribcage put him DL earlier this season.
Davis followed moments later with a mammoth shot of his own to right field, this one landing about halfway up the porch that overhangs the outfield wall.
It was the first back-to-back homers for New York since last June.
The Diamondbacks drew within a run in the fourth inning, when Drew worked a one-out walk, and Montero hit a grounder toward Murphy at second base that he let dribble into the outfield for an error. Ryan Roberts followed with a run-scoring single, and after Miranda popped out, Parra made it 4-3 with another RBI single.
Montero tied the game in the sixth with a homer to right field that landed on the pedestrian walkway above the bullpens, well over 400 feet from home plate.
Gee wound up getting the win when pinch-hitter Justin Turner doubled in his place in the sixth inning, and Murphy atoned for his error with a go-ahead single.
The 24-year-old right-hander has performed well since being recalled from the minors, making a good argument to keep him in the rotation when Chris Young (right biceps tendinitis) returns from the disabled list next week. Gee also won his start last weekend at Atlanta.
NOTES: Arizona manager Kirk Gibson originally had 3B Melvin Mora in the starting lineup. He decided to start Roberts instead during the rain delay. He made a nifty grab of a foul pop by Carlos Beltran while hanging over the dugout railing in the first inning. ... Mets CF Jason Pridie had his first career hit, a single in the second inning. He wound up stranded on third.
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