MLB teamSteve Pearce's two-out, two-run single capped a three-run ninth-inning comeback, as the Pittsburgh Pirates MLB team pulled off an improbable 7-5 victory over the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
The game was played to make up a rainout from April 28, and the Pirates appeared disinterested at first with three early errors that helped the Mets take a 5-1 lead. But the New York bullpen wasted a strong effort from Pedro Martinez and the Mets lost their second straight game.
Martinez held the Pirates to one run on three hits and four walks over six innings, but Pittsburgh scored three against the New York bullpen in the seventh and completed the comeback against Aaron Heilman and Scott Schoeneweis in the ninth.
Heilman (2-7), who recorded saves in his last two outings with Billy Wagner sidelined, could not get it done Monday for his MLB team. Luis Rivas singled with one out and Doug Mientkiewicz followed with a walk before Ryan Doumit drove a ball off the base of the wall in right field for a run-scoring single to tie it. After Andy LaRoche was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Schoeneweis took over for his MLB team.
Brandon Moss ripped a hot shot toward second that Damion Easley flagged down. He threw home for the force out, but Schoeneweis was unable to keep it tied as Pearce ripped a full-count pitch into left-center field for a two-run single to give the Pirates a 7-5 advantage.
"I worked the count and got the pitch that I was waiting for," said Pearce, who had a baserunning mistake and popped up with the bases loaded earlier in the game.
The Mets tried to recover in the bottom of the ninth, as Carlos Beltran led off with a single against John Grabow. The Pirate lefty, though, struck out Carlos Delgado and got Fernando Tatis to hit into a game-ending double play.
Grabow notched his second save and Denny Bautista (4-2) picked up the win with one inning of scoreless relief for his MLB team.

All team sports information reports, the Mets lost for the ninth time this season when leading in the eighth inning or later.