Mets fall to Phils, NL East lead at three  —  Game-ending interference call irks players, Randolph  —  PHILADELPHIA — Throughout his team's mostly unremarkable season, manager Willie Randolph often has bemoaned the Mets' inability to bury their opponents or at least create margins for error.

Notes: Rotation suddenly overflowing  —  Hamels' return would give Phillies six starting pitchers  —  PHILADELPHIA — Cole Hamels' pending Sunday return creates a pitching quandary.  Suddenly, the Phillies will have six starters in the rotation.  —  Again.  —  "Decisions need to be made," said righty starter Adam Eaton.

Mets slip with Marlon Anderson's slide  —  PHILADELPHIA - The Mets went down fighting last night.  And arguing.  —  Umpire C.B. Bucknor ruled runner Marlon Anderson intentionally interfered with Tadahito Iguchi while the second baseman was trying to turn a game-ending double play.

With card up his sleeve, Joe Torre managing a smile  —  It was not the 20th of April now, that Friday night at Fenway Park when Joe Torre brought the great Mo Rivera out of the bullpen for the eighth inning a month or so after saying he would do nothing of the kind this season.

Clemens conjures gem  —  NEW YORK - Bill Mueller's base hit seemed like millions of years (and dollars) ago.  —  His single in the fourth inning of the 2003 ALCS drove Roger Clemens from the Yankee Stadium mound for what Red Sox [team stats] fans thought was the final time.

Martínez to Audition for Mets' Brain Trust  —  Get your T-shirts now: The Pedro Martínez Reunion Tour will make a one-time stop in Atlanta on Friday so that he can throw his between-starts bullpen session in front of some very interested Mets coaches and officials.