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Arizona will try to avoid its second four-game skid of the season Monday night when it opens a three-game series against the visiting Mets.

After consecutive 81-81 seasons, the Diamondbacks (4-11) hoped to take a step forward and at least compete for a playoff spot in 2014. While there's still plenty of time left for that to happen, the team will need to find some solutions for a struggling rotation that has posted a major league-worst 7.18 ERA thus far.

"The pitching, the starting pitching. Is there a question about that?" manager Kirk Gibson told the team's website. "We got five innings out of the guy today, four, that's tough. The one thing you want to go well is you want to get innings out of your starting pitchers."

The Diamondbacks allowed 22 runs and struck out 34 times during the weekend sweep by the Dodgers. They have dropped eight of nine at home, including a pair of season-opening losses in Australia.

David Wright and the Mets (5-7) continue their nine-game trip after splitting the first six games in Atlanta and Anaheim. Sunday was a day Wright's club would rather forget after Bartolo Colon gave up four home runs as part of the Angels' 17-hit attack in a 14-2 rout.

"We've bounced back a couple times," Wright told the Mets' official website. "We've kind of given away a couple games that we should be winning. It's tough to take positives out of that, but at the end of the day, we're putting ourselves in position to win some games, and we need to take advantage of that."

After a quality start in his season debut, Zach Wheeler (0-2, 5.73) wasn't nearly as sharp against the Braves on Wednesday. He gave up four runs on eight hits over five innings with six strikeouts in a 4-3 loss.

The Mets won four of seven against the Diamondbacks last season, taking the final two of a three-game set in Arizona in August.
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