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NEW YORK -- The term next man up is most often associated with the NFL. But the injury-plagued New York Mets are winning with the mantra as they pursue a National League wild-card berth.The next next man up is left-hander Sean Gilmartin, who tries to nudge New York closer to the playoffs when he makes his first start of the season Saturday night in the third contest of a four-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field.The Mets won the first two games of the series including Friday, when they used six pitchers to piece together a 10-5 victory.New York (82-72) moved one game ahead of the San Francisco Giants (81-73) in the race for the NLs first wild card by virtue of Giants 7-2 loss to the San Diego Padres late Friday night.The St. Louis Cardinals, who lost 5-0 to the Chicago Cubs earlier Friday, are a half-game behind the Giants.Gilmartin is taking the rotation spot usually occupied by ace right-hander Noah Syndergaard, who was supposed to start Saturday but was pushed back at least a couple days because of a bout with strep throat.Gilmartin made 18 starts this season at Triple-A Las Vegas, but has not pitched more than two innings or thrown as many as 20 pitches since he was recalled by the Mets on Aug. 25.Got to turn to Sean Gilmartin (and) say Hey look, youve got to step up, heres your chance, Mets manager Terry Collins said.Syndergaards illness is the latest roadblock encountered by the Mets, who expected right-hander Jacob deGrom (right elbow) and left-hander Steven Matz (left shoulder) to return to the rotation this week but instead learned they are done for the season.The Mets have three rookies in their rotation -- Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo and Gabriel Ynoa, the latter of whom started Friday in place of Matz and allowed two runs in two innings.Youre numb to it now, its happened so much, Collins said of the constant upheaval.The Phillies, meanwhile, send rookie right-hander Alec Asher to the mound as Philadelphia (69-85) looks for the consistency it lacked the previous two nights. The Mets came back from ninth- and 11th-inning deficits to win Thursdays series opener 9-8 and trailed 3-1 after four innings Friday.The next step is for all these guys to get better, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. Thats how you win. Youve got to have consistency.Gilmartin is 1-1 with a 1.93 ERA in 10 career appearances against the Phillies, who were the opponent for his lone previous career start last Oct. 1. He took the loss after giving up two runs over five innings in Philadelphias 3-2 victory.Asher gave up five runs over a career-low two-thirds of an inning in his lone previous start against the Mets last Sept. 30. Wholesale Custom Brewers Shirts .Y. -- Paul Byron and Matt Stajan scored as the Calgary Flames started a five-game road trip with a 2-1 overtime win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon. Authentic Custom Brewers Jersey . Detroit and Boston are deadlocked, 1-1, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland could be forgiven if he was caught rationalizing instead of dissecting how his club could blow a 5-1 lead late in Game 2. http://www.custombrewersjersey.com/custom-paul-molitor-jersey-large-71z.html . The Nashville Predators were glad their captain was still on their side. Weber had a goal and two assists, and Roman Josi scored the shootout winner to lift the Predators to a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night. Brewers Jerseys China .C. at the helm of the top team in the Eastern Conference. His tenure as the GM in Vancouver was all too brief. Though he led the Canucks to what was then a franchise record-shattering campaign in just his second season, Nonis was gone and replaced one year later. Custom Brewers T-shirts . Galatasaray said in a statement on its website Monday that Mancini signed a three-year contract and will be paid 3.5 million euros for the upcoming season, with his salary upped to 4. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame?welcomes its latest class this weekend, and among the very distinguished honorees is one Shaquille ONeal. While his cohorts alone are pretty impressive -- Allen Iverson! Sheryl Swoopes! Yao Ming! Tom Izzo! Jerrry Reinsdorf! -- the retired superstar-turned-TNT analyst made sure to take a picture with a former inductee while in Springfield, Massachusetts.The options of who he could have chosen are endless, so I wont make you guess here. ONeal posed with a picture of the late, great Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and then postedd his photo of the pair on Instagram.ddddddddddddWriting #honored as one of his hashtags, its clear ONeal knows his basketball history.Hall of Fame style next to the great Pat Summitt #hof16 #halloffame #nba #honoredA photo posted by DR. SHAQUILLE ONEAL Ed.D. (@shaq) onSep 8, 2016 at 1:04pm PDTWelcome to the Hall, Shaq.See something entertaining on social media that you think deserves to be shared? Let me know on Twitter, @darcymaine_espn. ' ' '