Dickey earns 14th win as Mets down D-backs

7:04 PM, Jul 29, 2012   |    comments
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Phoenix, AZ (Sports Network) - Stuck in a quagmire for the last month, R.A. Dickey recaptured his pre-All-Star break form and won his National League- leading 14th game.

The knuckleballer tossed seven innings of one-run ball and the New York Mets downed the Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-1, in the finale of a four-game set.

Dickey (14-2) fanned eight, scattered four hits, walked three and surrendered an unearned run. He was 1-1 with a 6.43 earned run average in July coming into the contest and had allowed eight-or-more hits in each of his last four starts.

Scott Hairston knocked in a pair of runs for New York, which won for only the third time in its last 17 games.

Joe Saunders (5-7) was charged with four runs on eight hits and three walks in seven innings for Arizona, which has dropped three of its last five on the heels of a five-game winning streak.

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