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NEW YORK -- For eight innings, the only real drama that filled pumped-up Citi Field was whether R. Steve Young Jersey .A. Dickey would get a shutout to go along with his 19th win. When the New York Mets star knuckleballer went back to the mound for the ninth, a shutout seemed like a foregone conclusion, but moments later all Dickey could do was watch from the bench and hope that struggling reliever Jon Rauch could shut down the Miami Marlins with the tying run on second base. Rauch came through by the slimmest of margins, and Dickey and the Mets breathed a sigh of relief when they escaped with a 4-3 victory on Saturday. Dickey allowed a four-pitch walk and a double to open the ninth, and Rauch surrendered a three-run homer to John Buck before striking out Gorkys Hernandez to end it. "We ultimately got the win but it was definitely a little harder than we wanted it to be," said Jason Bay, who staked Dickey to a 2-0 lead with a second-inning homer. Just hours after the Mets snapped a nine-game losing streak at Citi Field on Friday and scored more than three runs in their home ballpark for the first time since Aug. 12, New York broke out the bats again in front of a crowd of 30,332. The Marlins rallied but couldnt finish off the comeback after Buck was awarded a home run when a video review determined his drive struck the left-field foul pole. "I knew it hit the pole and I was just waiting for the reversal," Bay said. "It was kind of like, this cant be happening." The Mets have won consecutive games at home for the first time since topping Houston on Aug. 25-26 -- the last two games before the start of their most recent home skid. Dickey got to 19 wins on his third try after two consecutive losses -- the only time this season he has been beaten in back-to-back starts. Washingtons Gio Gonzalez, who earned his 20th win on Saturday, and Dickey are the only major leaguers with at least 19. The knuckleballer batted for himself in the eighth, despite already throwing 104 pitches, and heard cheers and chants of his name when he returned to the mound in the ninth. He tried to finish his fourth shutout of the season but was pulled after Greg Dobbs led off with a walk and Donovan Solano followed with a double. "Nobody wants this guy to win more than me," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "I could not let him get into a situation where he might lose that game." Rauch then allowed Bucks 12th homer before getting three outs for his fourth save. "I had a quick eighth, so I was game to try to give the fans a treat and a complete game," Dickey said. "I felt pretty good and I told Terry, Im good. He has trusted me all year. I went back out there and tried it, and he pulled me when he needed to and we won the game." Dickey yielded two runs, six hits -- including three by Solano and two by Gil Velazquez -- and two walks. Dickey nearly provided another thrill with his bat when he sent a long drive to left field with the bases loaded in the sixth, but was robbed of an extra-base hit when Bryan Petersen jumped into the fence to make a highlight-reel catch. "That is as close as Ill probably ever get," Dickey said. "That was all this old man can do. I cheated on the pitch. He threw me a good pitch to hit. Everything was perfect." After a wild pitch on a knuckler, Dickey worked out of a jam in the second inning by striking out Hernandez and Jose Reyes with runners on second and third. "He struck out the guy when he needed to strike out the guy," Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. "That was a huge, huge inning for him." Five of Dickeys wins this season have come against the last-place Marlins, the only team in the NL East behind the Mets. He should get one more start against them in the final series of the season in Miami. "He obviously is good. Its not like hes just had our number," Buck said. "We didnt single-handedly hand him the Cy Young. He did have to face some other teams. Were obviously a big part of the reason." Dickey struck out four to retake the league lead from Los Angeles Clayton Kershaw and will be in position to reach 20 wins for the first time when he faces Pittsburgh on Thursday in his final home start of the season. Bay provided the punch against Mark Buehrle (13-13) in the second by launching a two-run homer to straightaway centre for his eighth of the season. It was Bays second consecutive shot against Buehrle, having hit a grand slam against the left-hander in Miami on Sept. 2 to pace the Mets to a 5-1 win. Scott Hairston pushed New Yorks lead to 3-0 in the fourth when he led off with his 19th homer of the season and second in two days. Hairston had to wait through a video review before he finished his trot in from second base, as the ball was originally ruled in play off the centre field fence. Replays showed the ball struck the batters eye above the blue wall 408 feet from home plate. Buehrle allowed four runs and five hits with three walks and three strikeouts in six innings of his 30th start of the season. He is six innings shy of reaching 200, which would give him 12 straight seasons of 10 wins, 30 starts and 200 innings -- the longest current streak in the majors. NOTES: Mets closer Frank Francisco was again unavailable after feeling soreness in his elbow. ... Dickey is the first Mets pitcher with 19 wins since Frank Viola (20) and Dwight Gooden (19) did it in 1990. ... Lucas Duda returned to the Mets lineup one day after being pulled from the game by Collins for not running out a pop fly that dropped. ... Marlins OF Giancarlo Stanton sat out a fourth consecutive game because of a strained muscle in his side. ... Buehrle is 0-3 against the Mets in his career, all this season. Anthony Davis Jersey . Joey Elliott will make his fifth straight start at quarterback when the Blue Bombers visit the Calgary Stampeders on Friday night. Patrick Willis Jersey . The party never happened -- at least not at the ballpark. Baltimore clinched its first playoff berth since 1997, but not until late Sunday when the Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 8-7 in the finale of a day-night doubleheader. http://www.shopthe49ersjerseys.com/alex-smith-jersey . -- Dustin Penner scored 17:42 into overtime and the Los Angeles Kings are headed to the Stanley Cup Final for the second time as a franchise after beating the Phoenix Coyotes with a 4-3 win in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final Tuesday night. Randy Moss Womens Jersey . Raonic and American Sam Querrey had their second-round match postponed by darkness. Watch the conclusion of the match on Friday, with coverage on TSN starting at 7am et/4am pt. Colin Kaepernick Youth Jersey . Scotts goal ended a 305-minute drought for the Sounders (3-1-1). Michael Gspurning picked up his second straight shutout and third of the season. Colorado (3-3-0) was blanked for the second straight game, both on the road.LAKE ORION, Mich. -- Bernhard Langer surged into the lead at the U.S. Senior Open by shooting 6-under 64 to move to 10 under for the tournament and a four-stroke lead on Saturday. Fred Couples joked that someone will have to close with a 60 to catch Langer. That might not be low enough. "Thats not a huge lead," Langer insisted. "That can disappear in no time. Im going to have to get out there and shoot under par. Thats my goal. "If I go 2 under or 3 under, it will be very difficult for anyone to catch me. And if they do, they deserve to win." The two-time Masters champion opened with three straight birdies and eight in 12 holes at Indianwood, a course with tight and unforgiving fairways and undulating greens. "He didnt win two Masters by luck," said Corey Pavin, who was in a five-way tie for second place. "Hes an exceptionally good player, very methodical." Victorias Jim Rutledge is tied for 58th at 7-over 217. Langer didnt miss a green in regulation during the third round until the par-3 No. 13, where a double bogey cut his cushion to three shots. He bounced back with a birdie at 15 before giving that stroke back with a bogey at 18. Pavin, Tom Lehman, Roger Chapman, John Huston and Tom Pernice Jr. were at 6-under 204. Couples surged up the leaderboard with a 65 after starting the day tied for 25th place. He was part of a pack -- along with Fred Funk and Jay Haas -- that was five shots back in a tie for seventh at the Champion Tours fourth of five majors. First-round leader Tom Kite and second-round leader Lance Ten Broeck were struggling in the final group. Kite finished with a 74 to drop into a tie for 17th, nine shots back. Since opening with a U.S. Senior Open nine-hole record 28, Kite is 6 over. Ten Broeck, a full-time caddie for Tim Herron and occasional player, shot a 72 with three birdies and five bogeys. He is alone in 11th place, six shots back, after starting the round with a one-shot lead over Kite and a two-stroke edge on a group that included Langer. Pavin was tied with Langer coming in and finished the third round four shots back, insisting he only thought about a two-stroke penalty from Thursday when a reporter asked about it. Mario Manningham Jersey. After pulling into a first-round tie for the lead, Pavin was docked two shots for hitting a ball that moved a fraction of an inch when he grounded his club to prepare for a chip. Couples, who said that his chronic back problems have kept him from ever practicing for a Champions Tour event, got into contention by driving the green at the 360-yard, par-4 No. 9 and posting an eagle from 105 yards on the next hole that created a buzz on the course. "You know its going to be close when they start to ooh and aah," he said. "As it went closer, they threw their hands up. Yeah, its a great feeling. You dont make many eagles, especially from the fairway." Langer scored with his flat stick, making a pair of 20-foot-plus putts for birdies on the first two holes while building confidence on a course set up to be a tough test for the best 50-and-older golfers in the world. The 54-year-old German has nine top-10 finishes in his 11 previous Champion Tour events this season, including three runner-up showings, and is shooting for his first win since needing surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb last year. Langer sounds as if hes back to being the golfer that led the senior circuit money list from 2008-2010 -- each of his first three seasons on the Champion Tour -- before slipping to 25 last year because of a surgery-stunted season. "Without being big headed, I think Im one of the better players out here the last three or four years," he said. "Ive won the Schwab Cup. If you do that, youve got to play well. If you can win normal tournaments and be in the top five or top 10 on a regular basis, you ought to be doing fairly well in the majors too because the majors are even harder. "The better players, I think, will separate themselves even more from the average player in the majors because conditions are usually tougher. ' ' '