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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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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama coach Nick Saban couldnt find much fault in the Crimson Tides physical effort, heart and fight.The missed blocks, costly busted coverage and onside kick allowed are entirely different matters. The top-ranked Tide survived those miscues and a scoop-and-score fumble in a come-from-way-behind 48-43 victory Saturday over No. 23 Mississippi.It wasnt always pretty.You dont ever want to beat yourself and when you do things like that, you give yourself an opportunity to beat yourself, Saban said on Monday. Its one thing to get beat physically. Cant cover them. Cant block them up front. Thats different, and that may happen someday. But all this other stuff, you beat yourself. Thats what weve got to get fixed.The Tide has gone 365 days -- as of Monday -- since losing to an opponent. And even that required five `Bama turnovers last season against the Rebels.The silver lining to the Ole Miss win is that Alabama found a way to battle back from a 24-3 first-half deficit. The downside for Saban is the Tide was down that far in the first place and then allowed two touchdowns in the final 2:59 after getting ahead by 18 points in the fourth quarter.That included an onside kick when the Tide missed a block and Calvin Ridley misjudged the ball, which went over his head. Sabans praise of the performance has to include buts.But when you look at things, the devil is kind of in the details, Saban said. We could have really lost the game based on mental mistakes, mental errors, lack of execution at times that led to really bad plays for our team. Our focus needs to be on getting these things corrected but having the ability to focus on sort of each and every play.The early deficit came after quarterback Jalen Hurts fumbled on a big hit that Saban blamed on a botched execution on an offensive line call.dddddddddddd. A coverage bust had earlier left star Ole Miss tight end Evan Engram wide open for a 63-yard touchdown catch.Those plays led to the kind of test Alabama had not faced in the first two games, which both ended with lopsided wins after slow starts.The Tide seems unlikely to face a similar challenge in the next two weeks from Sabans alma mater, Kent State, and Kentucky.Now, the question is if overcoming such adversity will lead to a growth spurt for Alabama and the freshman Hurts. The Tide won out into the playoffs after the Ole Miss losses the past two seasons.I mean, I think if you can be happy about the way you competed in the game and that you won, but also be disappointed enough in the way you play as if you lost, then youll learn something, Saban said. I dont know if you can do that or not. Its not really human nature to do that. But if we can do that, well accomplish something.Hurts poise in bouncing back during his first college game at an opponents stadium was a good sign for Alabamas ambitions of a repeat national title. Center Bradley Bozeman said Hurts told his blockers on the sideline not to sweat the hit he took to cause the fumble.He was just like, `I still got yalls back. Yall got mine. Lets keep rolling, Bozeman said. He didnt let it affect him at all. He got back in the game and kept playing.So did Alabama.NOTE: Wide receiver ArDarius Stewarts status is uncertain with a sprained left knee sustained against Ole Miss. That would leave Robert Foster, Cam Sims and maybe freshman receiver/defensive back/return man Trevon Diggs to get more playing time if he cant go.---Online: The APs college football page: http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '