#27 RP

New York Mets

2014 STATS

GM 15

W1

L2

BB8

K14

ERA 3.12

NEW YORK -- Jeurys Familia recorded five straight outs in extra innings Sunday before issuing a two-out walk in the 11th and departing. Afterward, Terry Collins suggested Familia is poised to overtake stopgap ninth-inning-man Kyle Farnsworth as closer very soon.

“He’s getting closer,” Collins said after the Mets' 5-4, 11-inning win against the Philadelphia Phillies. “Three days in a row, pounding the strike zone, throwing his breaking ball for strikes, the confidence is really mounting on him. Yeah, he’s real close.”

In his past nine appearances, the 24-year-old Familia has now allowed only one earned run on four hits and three walks in 9 2/3 innings.