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Burnley, England (SportsNetwork.com) - Southamptons horrid run of results continued on Saturday as the club suffered a 1-0 defeat to Burnley at Turf Moor. A three-game slide had dropped the Saints out of the top four, but Saturdays defeat, their fourth straight in Premier League play, leaves the club in fifth place in the table with 26 points. Southampton had a tremendous chance to open the scoring at the hour mark when George Boyd committed a foul on Ryan Bertrand in the box, but Dusan Tadics ensuing penalty was saved by Tom Heaton. It proved to be a pivotal miss as the hosts went in front in the 73rd minute. A poor giveaway from the Southampton defense allowed Ashley Barnes to pounce on the loose ball and fire a shot past Fraser Forster at the near post. Barnes strike held up as the winner, giving Burnley its third win of the season and lifting the club to 15 points and out of the relegation zone. Chelsea maintained its position at the top of the table by picking up a 2-0 victory over Hull City on Saturday. The Blues received an early goal from Eden Hazard, who nodded home a cross from Oscar in the seventh minute. Hulls Tom Huddlestone was sent off for a rash challenge in the 60th minute, and Chelsea took advantage of the extra man eight minutes later with Diego Costa producing his team-leading 12th goal of the season. Manchester City managed to keep pace with Chelsea by grinding out a 1-0 defeat of Leicester City at the KP Stadium. Frank Lampard netted the lone goal of the affair, steering home a low cross from Samir Nasri in the 40th minute to keep the Citizens three points back of the Blues. Arsenal turned in a superb performance at the Emirates on Saturday, smashing Newcastle in a 4-1 victory. Olivier Giroud headed home the opener in the 15th minute while Santi Cazorla doubled the advantage with a sublime chip in the 54th minute. Girouds deft touch four minutes later made it three while Newcastle pulled one back through Ayozes header in the 63rd, but Cazorla converted a late penalty to restore the three-goal lead. West Bromwich Albion capitalized on Kieran Richardsons first-half red card to collect a 1-0 victory over Aston Villa behind Craig Gardners strike 18 minutes from time. Crystal Palace and Stoke City exchanged goals two minutes apart to split the points in a 1-1 draw and Stewart Downing erased a penalty from Jordi Gomez to help West Ham United salvage a point from a 1-1 draw at Sunderland. Bruins Jerseys 2019 . It was well worth the wait. Manning and the Denver Broncos waited eight long months, then another 33 minutes to get the season started because of a lightning storm. 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He nearly came away with his first professional shutout Sunday, limiting the Miami Marlins to three singles over eight innings in the New York Mets 4-0 victory. "Im not sure if Dillon is all that sexy of a pitcher," Mets captain David Wright said. "He just goes out there and gets the job done." Gee never topped 90 mph against the Marlins. Still, he didnt allow a runner past second base. "Hes not going to impress you with the radar gun. Hes not going to strike a lot of guys out," Wright said. "But what hes going to do is induce a lot of ground balls, pound the strike zone. And hes going to go out there and know how to pitch." Chris Young hit a two-run homer, and Wright had an RBI double and an outstanding sliding, over-the-shoulder catch of a foul popup with his back to the plate as the Mets took two of three in the series. Pitching a day before his 28th birthday, Gee (2-1) had the longest outing of a Mets pitcher since last August. He struck out six, walked four and threw 110 pitches -- his high since May 30, 2012, against Philadelphia. That was six weeks before season-ending surgery to repair a damaged artery in his right shoulder. He tried to talk Mets manager Terry Collins into letting him get a complete game. Gee has just four in 162 pro starts over eight years. "CG chances dont come along that often. It would have been nice," Gee said. Collins wasnt taking any chances, especially after Gee needed 23 pitches to navigate a 1-2-3 eighth. Coming in, batters were hitting .187 off Gee through the first six innings and .385 from the seventh on. "The one thing I didnt want to have happen is fourth time through the lineup, to have him hang a slider with a 113th pitch and have something go into the seats," Collins said. Gee is 12-6 with a 2.75 ERA since last May 30. Thats the eighth-best ERA in the major leagues, according to STATS, just ahead of Adam Wainwright and Madison Bumgarner. "Probably pretty under the radar, like I think a lot of players in this room," Wright said. "We dont necessarily have a lineup full or a pitching rotation full of household names." Carlos Torres followed with a perfect ninth that finished a thrree-hitter.dddddddddddd The Marlins felt flummoxed by Gee, who is 3-0 in five starts against them "Hes got a good sinker. He uses a cutter, curveball. Hes always got that changeup," Jarrod Saltalamacchia said. Tom Koehler (2-2), who was born in Bronx and grew up in New Rochelle, allowed four runs, five hits and four walks in five innings. New York went ahead in the second when Daniel Murphy walked, Young was hit by a pitch and Lucas Duda looped a ground-rule double down the left-field line that landed about a foot fair and bounced into the seats. Curtis Granderson walked leading off the three-run fifth and came home when Wright doubled to the base of the left-field wall, only his third extra-base hit since an opening day home run. After Murphy grounded out, Young had four straight fouls before sending a hanging slider into the left-field seats on the 11th pitch of his at-bat and the 22nd pitch to him from Koehler on the afternoon. "I kind of saw everything he had, and I think the advantage leans a little more toward my way," Young said. There was some superb glovework: Murphy made a barehand pickup of a three-hopper on the shortstop side of second to throw out Marcell Ozuna in the first; and Wright made the glamorous grab on Casey McGehees fourth-inning foul pop about 70 feet beyond third base. "Its kind of a panic slide because you dont want to go barrelling into that tarp," Wright said. New York completed a 6-4 homestand, leaving its record at 14-11. "Its impossible to beat your chest and kind of walk with a little pep in your step when youre not winning," Wright said. "You start taking care of business at home, you kind of gain that confidence and I think that that kind of shows on the field." NOTES: Mets pitchers are 0 for 41 at the plate this year, the longest hitless streak for any teams pitchers starting a season since at least 1974, according to STATS. The Braves began 2008 and 11 with 0 for 39 slides. ... Murphy has succeeded in 27 consecutive stolen-base attempts, six shy of Kevin McReynolds Mets record. ... New York is 6-0 when Recker starts this season. ... Jon Niese (1-2) starts the Mets series opener on Tuesday at Philadelphia, where Cole Hamels (0-1) makes his first home appearance this season. ' ' 'ated. ' ' '