Mets bullpen spoils Glavine’s 300-win bid

MILWAUKEE -- New York’s bullpen cost Tom Glavine his 300th win.

After Mets relievers wasted a one-run lead in the eighth inning, Geoff Jenkins hit a two-run home run against Aaron Sele (3-1) in the 13th inning to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-2 victory on Tuesday night.

Glavine had given up only two hits when Manager Willie Randolph took him out in the seventh inning with a runner on first base and no outs and the Mets leading, 2-1. Right-hander Aaron Heilman replaced Glavine and gave up a single to J.J. Hardy, and after Ryan Braun flied out, Pedro Feliciano was summoned and hit Prince Fielder with a pitch. Guillermo Mota came in and Bill Hall hit a ground-rule double to left field that drove in Hardy with the tying run.

Glavine was trying to become the 23rd pitcher to reach the 300-win mark -- and the first since former Atlanta teammate Greg Maddux on Aug. 7, 2004, for the Chicago Cubs against San Francisco.

The win would have come 17 years to the day after -- and only a few hundred yards away from -- Nolan Ryan’s 300th career win at old County Stadium on July 31, 1990. Warren Spahn also recorded his 300th career victory in Milwaukee, in 1961.

From the Associated Press