NEW YORK (AP) -- A game that featured 35 hits and seven home runs

was decided by four straight pitches out of the strike zone.

Pinch-hitter Mike Piazza drew a bases-loaded walk from Julio

Santana in the 11th inning, and the New York Mets rallied past the

Milwaukee Brewers 9-8 Tuesday night.

"At 3-0, I looked down to third to see if there was a sign,"

Piazza said.

There was none.

"I've hit into double plays in those situations. I could see a

3-0, broken-bat comebacker to the pitcher," Piazza said, "so I

was pretty much taking."

Mike Cameron tied the score with a one-out homer in the ninth

off hard-throwing closer Derrick Turnbow, who had not allowed a run

in converting his previous 15 save chances.

"He supplied most of the power," said Cameron, who has seven

hits in two games since New York held onto him at the trade

deadline Sunday.

David Wright also connected for the Mets, who overcame a

four-run deficit and Milwaukee's season-high five homers.

Geoff Jenkins homered twice, including a tiebreaking shot off

Roberto Hernandez that gave the Brewers an 8-7 lead in the ninth.

Carlos Lee and Jenkins hit back-to-back homers in the first

inning, and Russell Branyan and Damian Miller did the same against

starter Victor Zambrano in the second as Milwaukee opened a 6-2

lead.

Lee drove in four runs, increasing his NL-leading total to 89.

He also had four hits.

"We labored the whole night," Milwaukee manager Ned Yost said.

"It was a great offensive night for us."

Wright opened the 11th with a single and was running as Cameron

hit a liner right at shortstop Bill Hall, who was moving over to

cover second base. The ball appeared to catch Hall by surprise and

glanced off his glove into center field, putting runners at the

corners.

Doug Mientkiewicz was intentionally walked, loading the bases.

After Ramon Castro flied out to shallow right, Piazza took four

straight balls from Santana (2-5).

"I was trying to get a groundball," Santana said.

Braden Looper (4-4) pitched two scoreless innings for the win.

Cameron had four hits, and Miguel Cairo added three for the

Mets.

It took Milwaukee 107 games this season to hit consecutive home

runs, and one inning to duplicate the feat. The last time the

Brewers hit five homers was April 25, 2003, in Atlanta.

Lee's 26th home run in the first inning was a two-run shot, and

Jenkins made it 3-0.

The Mets came back in the bottom half against starter Tomo Ohka

on RBI singles by Cliff Floyd and Cameron to make it 3-2.

Branyan opened the second with his 10th homer, a drive over the

center-field fence, and Miller followed with his sixth. Lee added

an RBI single off Aaron Heilman, making it 6-2.

The Mets scored twice in the fourth on Jose Reyes' run-scoring

single and Carlos Beltran's RBI groundout.

Lee's two-out RBI single in the sixth made it 7-4, but the Mets

tied it in the seventh.

Wright hit a solo homer, his 16th. Mientkiewicz and Castro hit

consecutive doubles with two outs, and Marlon Anderson drove in the

tying run with a single, his 16th pinch-hit this season.Game notes
Reyes extended his hitting streak to 15 games. ... Lee also

made a sprawling catch in LF. ... Mets RHP Steve Trachsel (back

surgery) was at Shea Stadium to throw a side session. He is

expected to make two more rehab starts. ... New York 2B Kaz Matsui

(knee) played seven innings in a rehab game in the Gulf Coast

League, going 2-for-4 with two singles.