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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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On the same day he was introduced in Waco, Rhule ran a full-page ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer thanking Temple University, Owls fans and the city of Philadelphia.His immediate task at Baylor is to start recruiting since the Bears, already with a depleted roster, have only one player verbally committed for signing day in February. There are only days before a quiet period in recruiting starts Monday.Kids are reaching out left and right, they want to come to Baylor, Rhule said after the formal introduction. They just needed some answers first.After a search with many rumored candidates, athletic director Mack Rhoades said Rhule, who the AD knew from his days at Houston and in the same conference with Temple, was the only person we offered the job to.Rhoades, who became Baylors AD in August, said he texted Rhule after Temple beat Navy last weekend to congratulate him on winning the American Athletic Conference title. They later met, and Rhoades said it took only about 30 minutes before he knew in his gut, his heart and his mind that he had found the new Bears coach.This is a strong leader, Rhoades said. This is somebody with great vision whos going to demand excellence, demand accountability. I love the toughness. So it was all of those things wrapped up.Acting head coach Jim Grobe got a standing ovation when he was introduced.Grobe and his staff, assistants retained from former coach Art Briles staff, will coach the Bears (6-6) when they take on Boise State in the Cactus Bowl on Dec. 27, the same day Temple plays Wake Forest in the Military Bowl.Rhule becomes the full-time replacement for two-time Big 12 champion coach Briles, who was dismissed after a scathing report over thee universitys handling of sexual assault complaints, including some against football players.ddddddddddddAn investigation by the Pepper Hamilton law firm determined that the school mishandled assault claims for years. The firms report in May led to the immediate suspension of Briles, who had eight years left on his contract and reached an undisclosed settlement with the school a month later.A former Penn State linebacker (1994-97) under Joe Paterno, Rhule said the possibility of NCAA sanctions for Baylor werent even an issue for him.Just having lived through that at my alma mater, you never know what has to happen, whats going to happen, Rhule said. I think I just trust our leadership and say, whatever happens, these kids need a good coach. I think I can be that coach for them.Rhule, a professed Christian, was wearing a newly purchased green tie for the introduction that Baylor called a campus celebration, inside the schools basketball arena and including the school band and cheerleaders.The football team sat in section near the raised podium where Rhule spoke. The new coach said those players are the first and most important piece and he planned to meet with each of them individually.As for putting together a coaching staff, he said he had about 480 text messages within two hours after his hiring had been announced Tuesday. He said he hadnt had a chance to meet yet with the current Baylor assistants, and didnt rule out the possibility of some being retained.Some other things Rhule addressed:On having a defensive background and coming to a school known for big-play, high-scoring offenses: Were going to play great defense, and were going to have a dynamic offense. ... I learned very quickly from coach (Tom) Coughlin that you take your great players and you let them be great.On leaving Temple: It was one of the hardest things I did ... to say goodbye, but I knew that our job was done there, our time was over. Those kids went from 2-10 to 6-6 to the winningest two-year stretch at Temple.On what he learned from his dad: Hes a man who spent his life serving others on the football field, in the church, in the youth center that he ran in Times Square in one of the tough neighborhoods in New York City. And he showed me at an early age that we serve God in whatever way were called to do it.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 ' ' '