Marquez outduels Scherzer, Rockies edge Mets

NEW YORK — German Marquez outpitched Max Scherzer, allowing one hit over seven sparkling innings and denying the New York Mets’ ace his 200th career win as the Colorado Rockies eked out a 1-0 victory Sunday to prevent a four-game sweep by the NL East leaders.

Brian Serven’s sacrifice fly off Scherzer in the seventh gave the Rockies their second 1-0 win over the Mets. The other one came in August 2012.

Marquez (7-10) struck out five and walked two, improving to 2-1 with a 1.42 ERA in three road starts against the Mets. The righthander threw a seven-inning complete game in his previous start at Citi Field on April 17, 2021.

Scherzer (9-4) gave up four hits and racked up 11 strikeouts over seven innings in his 110th doubledigit strikeout game — tying Roger Clemens for third on the career list behind Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner was trying to join former teammate Justin Verlander (242) and Zack Greinke (223) as the only active pitchers with 200 wins.

The teams combined for just two hits through six innings — a bloop single by Charlie Blackmon for Colorado

in the first and a single by Jeff McNeil for New York in the fifth.

The last-place Rockies broke the stalemate in the seventh, when they quickly loaded the bases on C.J. Cron’s single, Jose Iglesias’ bunt single and Randal Grichuk’s infield single. Serven delivered his sacrifice fly to deep right field on the first pitch after Sam Hilliard struck out.

Scherzer ended his afternoon by striking out Garrett