Mets’ Young Starts Climb From Bottom : Baseball: After 27 losses in a row, pitcher catches a break and gets a 5-4 victory over the Marlins.

He rushed from the dugout with a broad smile on his face, which meant that for once, Anthony Young and fate had the same expression. He raised his arms in triumph with all the strength a man can muster after he has turned back history.

Raise a toast to Anthony Young. He won.

For the first time since April 19, 1992, he won. So long to the longest losing streak in major league baseball, 27 games. Goodby to the good-luck charms, the pressure and the record that weighed heavily on his back. “It wasn’t a monkey,” he said. “It was a zoo. I’m glad the zoo is off.”

He finally got a break from luck and his teammates, who turned an apparent loss inside out. The New York Mets scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning and beat the Florida Marlins, 5-4, at Shea Stadium.

Young rushed onto the field amid a roar from 24,377. He embraced Ryan Thompson, who scored the winning run, then Eddie Murray, whose double to the right-field corner knocked home Thompson. Then came a curtain call that was a long time coming. “It was,” he said, “like winning the World Series tonight.”

Every Met took some pride in it. At a time when the fun seemed to have drained out of the franchise, something good came out of this ill-tempered, ill-mannered season.

It has been excruciating for Young (1-13) and the Mets. It had been the aftermath of a Young defeat that provoked Bret Saberhagen to toss a pack of firecrackers near reporters July 7.

“The first loss was a low point, and it just kept getting lower and lower,” Young said. “I never doubted my ability. I know what I can do, and I guess the Mets know what I can do. I heard there’s a lot of teams out there who tried to trade for me, and the Mets wouldn’t get rid of me.”

Now he’ll never have to say “here we go again,” again.

He was saying that Wednesday night at the beginning of his stint in relief of Saberhagen. Young opened the ninth inning by allowing a single to Benito Santiago. Catcher Todd Hundley botched Darrell Whitmore’s sacrifice. Young fielded Walt Weiss’ sacrifice, but wheeled for a force at third at Hundley’s urging, but found no one covering.

After a double play, Young gave up an RBI bunt single to Chuck Carr, giving Florida a 4-3 lead.

But the Marlins’ Bryan Harvey (1-3) had the kind of finish Young usually has. Jeff McKnight led off with a pinch-single, went to second on Dave Gallagher’s sacrifice and scored on Thompson’s single. “I lost games like that,” Young said.

After Joe Orsulak popped to left, Murray sent Thompson home from first with a drive into the right-field corner. Before Young knew it, someone from the stands was tossing him a bouquet of flowers.