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PHILADELPHIA -- Ryan Howard took a big cut, the ball soared off his bat and he paused to admire his shot like hes done for so many of his 381 career homers.A stiff wind turned this one into a double but the Big Piece has two more games left to go deep once more.Howard started his final series with the Phillies by going 1 for 4 and the New York Mets moved closer to securing a wild-card berth with a 5-1 win over Philadelphia on Friday night.Howard, the 2006 NL MVP, is the last player remaining from the 2008 World Series championship team. The Phillies plan to pay him a $10 million buyout rather than exercise a $25 million option for 2017.Hes business as usual, manager Pete Mackanin said of Howard. I think somewhere down the road itll hit him and hell have that nostalgia, but right now hes all business.Jay Bruce homered for the third straight game and drove in three runs, and Robert Gsellman threw six sharp innings to lead the Mets.The defending NL champions reduced their magic number to one. The Mets began the night atop the wild-card race, with San Francisco one game back and St. Louis two behind.Phillies starter Alec Asher (2-1) gave up three runs and five hits in six innings.Ive pitched like I know, Asher said. I just want to carry it on to next year the way Ive been doing. I know theres stuff I can work on, but I think Im going in the right direction.Asher retired the first 11 batters before he ran into trouble with two outs in the fourth when Yoenis Cespedes and Curtis Granderson hit consecutive singles.Bruce and T.J. Rivera followed with back-to-back RBI singles for a 2-1 lead.More Mets fans were inside a half-empty ballpark on a wet, chilly night in Philadelphia. The blue-and-orange faithful screamed Lets Go Mets and their Bruuuuuce chants drowned out boos from Phillies fans.Bruce connected in the seventh, sending his 33rd homer the opposite-way to left field. The Mets added two runs, including another RBI single by Bruce.Earlier in the inning, Howard let Cespedes infield pop fall untouched near the first-base bag, allowing a runner to score from third.Howard hit a double to deep center his first time up. Cameron Rupps sacrifice fly followed Howards double and put the Phillies ahead 1-0.STATSBruce is 10 for 20 with four homers and eight RBIS in his last six games. ... Mets are 15-2 after an off day. ... Mets tied a franchise record with 106 homers on the road. They already have a franchise-best 217 homers.TOSSEDMackanin was ejected for the first time this season in the eighth inning by first baseman umpire Will Little. 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Third-seeded Murray had the easiest path to victory on New Years Eve, barely breaking a sweat during his 6-0, 6-0 win over 2,129th-ranked Qatari wildcard recipient Mousa Shanan Zayed. LA CORUNA, Spain -- Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia, two former champions fallen on hard times, drew 1-1 in the Spanish league on Monday.In an entertaining renewal of a rivalry that helped decide titles more than 10 years ago, Valencia rallied at Riazor Stadium to split the points.Juanfran Moreno picked out Emre Colaks run toward the penalty spot with a cross for the midfielder to head in just before the halftime whistle.Valencia forward Rodrigo Moreno, who had missed his teams two best chances, leveled in the 56th when he tapped in Nanis short cross. Goalkeeper Przemyslaw Tyton almost trapped his shot on the line, but the ball had already crossed over.Valencia, which wwas playing its third match under new Italian coach Cesare Prandelli, remained one point ahead of Deportivo, which is on the edge of the relegation zone.ddddddddddddeportivo won the league in 2000 and Valencia was champion in 2002 and 2004. It would take 10 years for Atletico Madrid to break the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid in 2014.But in recent years the objective of a diminished Deportivo has been to avoid the drop, while Valencia has been undermined by a steady exit of its best players and the inability to find a successful coach. ' ' '