If Sandy Alderson wants to break up the Mets, the Phillies might not make it easy on him.
The Mets returned to Citi Field and pounded Philadelphia, 7-1, smacking around A.J. Burnett for seven runs in five innings on Monday and have won three of their last four games.
They face at best an uphill battle to get back into contention, since the Mets still have to leapfrog five teams to get the second wild card.
But at least they were entertaining, scoring four runs in the first off the former Yankee Burnett, as Bartolo Colon blanked Philadelphia until being chased by back-to-back doubles in the eighth.
Colon surrendered 10 hits, but managed to stay out of trouble for the most part. He gave up one run over 7 ²/₃ innings and walked just one batter in his 121-pitch outing, a total that tied his season-high.
The 41-year-old had all the support he needed by the end of the first.
Daniel Murphy drove in Curtis Granderson with a double before Lucas Duda singled to score Murphy in the opening frame. Travis d'Arnaud doubled to send Duda to third and Juan Lagares snapped an 0-for-17 slump by capping the rally with a two-run double to make it 4-0 against Burnett (6-10).
D'Arnaud added a three-run homer in the fifth off Burnett, giving Colon (10-8) even more of a cushion.
Colon's future with the club is in doubt — even if he's not sent out by Thursday's non-waiver trade deadline, he could be traded in the offseason.
"We're not anxious to move him at this point," Alderson said before the game. "It could happen."
Chances are that no matter what the Mets do this week — or the rest of the season — they won't be contending for anything in 2014.
But if they are ever going to reverse their fortunes, d'Arnaud figures to play a major role.
Not only will he be entrusted with handling the pitching staff, the Mets will also be looking for the kind of offensive production they got from him Monday.
And Colon no doubt helped the Mets cause if they want to trade him for a bat — whether it's now or after the season.
The right-hander pitched around two singles in the third before a walk and two infield hits loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth.
Colon came back and struck out Cody Asche on three pitches to end the inning and keep the Phillies off the scoreboard.
Dana Eveland was knocked out of the game in the ninth after he was drilled near his left elbow by a Ben Revere liner. Vic Black came on to finish.
Before the game, manager Terry Collins said he thought his team would be able to put aside the distractions likely to surround them for much of this week.
"Half the time, nothing happens," Collins said. "As a matter of fact, the majority of time nothing happens. You've just got to go perform."
Colon has done that in his last two outings. After tossing a game in Seattle, where he brought a perfect game into the seventh, Colon was excellent again Monday.
While he didn't flirt with history thanks to a first-inning single by Marlon Byrd, he was efficient against an underachieving Phillies team that could look considerably different by the end of the week.
The Mets figure to have a more difficult time Tuesday, when the Phillies send Cole Hamels to the mound, but the visitors looked lifeless in the series opener.
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