MILWAUKEE (Interstat) — Logan Henderson allowed two runs over five innings and Joey Ortiz recorded three hits and two RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the New York Mets 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon at American Family Field. The Brewers improved to 64-38 while the Mets fell to 43-60.

Milwaukee took a 3-0 lead in the second inning on Ortiz’s triple and Christian Yelich’s single. The Mets answered with a solo home run by Marcus Semien in the second and another run in the fifth. Yelich tripled again in the sixth to push the lead to 4-2. New York scored once in the ninth on Francisco Alvarez’s single, but Trevor Megill closed for his 16th save.

Henderson (4-1) struck out nine over five innings, yielding five hits. Christian Scott (3-2) took the loss after allowing three runs in 3 2/3 innings. Aaron Ashby struck out four over two scoreless innings for Milwaukee, and Daniel Duarte tossed 1 1/3 scoreless for the Mets. The game drew 38,319 and lasted 3 hours, 2 minutes.