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NEW YORK -- Bartolo Colon started Ben Zobrist with an 87 mph pitch off the outside of the plate.Facing the NL Cy Young Award winner in Jake Arrieta, the crafty 43-year-old with the sumo wrestler body and carefree attitude wasnt going to get amped up.Colon (7-4) outpitched Arrieta on a night of playoff-like intensity at Citi Field, and the New York Mets beat Chicago 4-3 Saturday for their third straight win over the Cubs.After getting swept in a three-game series at Washington, the Mets can complete a sweep of their own on Sunday.We hit a little lull, and sometimes when you do that you kind of just show up and put your uniform on and go play, and thats not how you win in this league, Neil Walker said. These last few days have been a very good indicator of what were capable of and how we need to play the rest of the summer.Walker hit a two-run homer in the first and Travis dArnaud blooped a two-run single in the fourth, after Anthony Rizzo tied the score with a two-run homer in the top half. Zobrist homered off Erik Goeddel in the seventh.Addison Reed struck out Kris Bryant to end the seventh with the potential tying run on second, and then struck out the side in the eighth after Rizzos leadoff single. Jeurys Familia got three straight outs to convert his 44th consecutive save chance, including a major league-leading 28 this season, sending the Cubs to their ninth loss in 13 games.You can believe you can compete, but then when you go out and do it, it means a lot, the confidence that it sends throughout the clubhouse, Mets manager Terry Collins said. Theres no other way to do it except go out there and beat one of the real, real good teams three times. And weve done that and we want to finish it off.Arrieta (12-3) lost for the third time in six starts, giving up four runs and eight hits in 5 1/3 innings. He had been 19-0 in 24 regular-season road starts since losing at St. Louis on May 7, 2015, the only pitcher since 1913 to win 19 consecutive road decisions. However, he lost Game 2 of last years NL Championship Series at Citi Field.Arrieta started his first eight batters with balls. Rookie Brandon Nimmo walked leading off, and Walker sent a 94 mph sinker off the facing of the second deck in right. The home run was his 15th this year, one shy of his 2015 total.With the score 2-2 in the fourth and runners at first and second, dArnaud popped a ball into short center field, in the middle of a triangle formed by center fielder Jason Heyward, second baseman Javier Baez and shortstop Addison Russell. On a full run toward the outfield and with his back to home plate, Baez reached up with his right, bare hand, but the ball glanced off it and fell to the ground as two runs scored. Baez had just entered the game at second base.Colon (7-4) allowed two runs and four hits in six innings. DArnaud said Colon kept the mood light.Even today, hes getting us to laugh before his big start, he said.Before the game, Cubs manager Joe Maddon recalled writing Pancho on the lineup card when he was with the Angels instead of Colons name, a reference to Colons pet donkey when he was young in the Dominican Republic. Maddon said the way to beat the Colon was to take advantage of his few mistakes.There was just one, Rizzos homer into the center field batters eye.The key is just throw strikes, Colon said through a translator. A team like the Cubs, who are aggressive at home plate, you have to try to get ahead of the batters.WEB GEMMets first baseman James Loney made a nifty throw for a reverse force double play in the third inning. After fielding Zobrists bouncer over first, Loney leaned back in foul territory and threw to second, where shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera acted as if there was no play, appearing to fool Arrieta, who went into the base standing up and was tagged out.TRAINERS ROOMMets: OF Juan Lagares was activated from the 15-day DL after recovering from a sprained left thumb, entered as a pinch hitter in the sixth in his first big league appearance since June 14 and is set to start Sunday. ... RF Curtis Granderson, who has not played since Wednesday because of a right calf strain, was on deck to pinch hit in the eighth and could play Sunday.UP NEXTLHP Jon Lester (9-3) is to start Sunday for the Cubs and RHP Noah Syndergaard (8-3) for the Mets. 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DENVER --?Broncos coach Gary Kubiak didnt announce the teams starting quarterback Saturday night, but he said he now has enough information to make a decision.The Broncos 17-9 preseason win over the Los Angeles Rams?on Saturday night marked?Trevor Siemians second consecutive preseason start for Denver. Siemian looked composed and comfortable running the team as he finished a workmanlike 10-of-17 for 122 yards with a touchdown and an?interception.Rookie Paxton Lynch followed Siemian into the game as the Broncos No. 2 quarterback, and Mark Sanchez did not play. Afterward, Kubiak said the decision about who would start the regular-season opener Sept. 8 against the?Carolina Panthers?would be made in the coming days.?Ive got a lot invested and a lot of work that I can make some decisions off of now, Kubiak said. Ill do that. Does that mean Im going to do it [Sunday] or Monday? I dont know. Ive got enough going on that I can make a decision.Siemian, a seventh-round pick in the 2015 draft, has shown he made the most of his season with Peyton Manning in the Broncos run to last seasons Super Bowl win. Siemian has been the most consistent quarterback over the past few weeks and is in position to hear his name and the word starter in the same sentence.Asked after Saturdays game if he believed he would be named the starter, Siemian said, I feel confident. Ultimately its up to [Kubiak]; its a better question for him.But asked if he believed he had done enough to be the starter, Siemian said, I do, but again, thats not my call. Ill just try to be the best teammate I can be.After the game, when asked to evaluate Siemians performance, Kubiak noted the calm Siemian showed, something the quarterbacks teammates have referenced as well. Kubiak pointed out how Siemian led a scoring drive following a drive that ended with his interception.Im impressed. I think hes very calm, Kubiak said. I can tell by the way he handles the team in the huddle, hes got control of whats goiing on.dddddddddddd Gets a bad break on the go ball and comes right back and goes down the field. I think what I see is a guy getting better. ... Ive got a lot of work to do. Im going to make a decision this week. ... Im going to do that, but at the same time, Ive got a lot of things going on. Ill take my time and do it the right way.Kubiak said he informed Sanchez of the decision to play Lynch for the entire second half before breakfast on Saturday because the coach needed to see Lynch play. Lynch had played against third-teamers in his first two preseason games.I, obviously, thought about it all week long, Kubiak said. I sat down with Mark this morning, before breakfast. I said, Mark, Im going to play Paxton in the second [half], and if things go the way I think, and Trevor plays as long as I think hes going to play, then Im not going to put you in there with four or five minutes to play. Bottom line: Ive got a lot to go on on Mark. Hes played a lot of football. I need to see the other two kids play.Said Lynch: [It] felt good. I got a lot of playing time. First, I just feel more comfortable. Im not so surprised by whats going on. ... When we came out, before we went out, he told me I was going to get the whole second half.Lynch finished 6-of-13 passing for 57 yards. The Broncos must now decide if they are going to use Siemian as a starter and Lynch as a backup even though neither has thrown a pass in an NFL regular-season game.There are also business factors at work. Sanchez is slated to count $4.5 million against the salary cap, and the Broncos would not have to surrender a conditional draft pick to the Philadelphia Eagles if he was not on the roster to open the season.Sanchez was not in the locker room when the other quarterbacks were speakurl] ' ' '