Wright Gives Mets a Lead They Can't Lose Against Nationals Gary Cameron/Reuters David Wright's second home run of the game, his 14th of the season, gave the Mets a 9-1 lead. WASHINGTON - David Wright, as he has many times this season, put the Mets on his shoulders Thursday and ensured they would leave here on positive note. He hit two home runs to pace the Mets to a vital 9-5 win over the Washington Nationals. The victory snapped a six-game losing streak since the All-Star break that had threatened to derail the Mets" season. Wright, who is in the final year of his contract, finished the game with five runs batted in and remained the team leader or co-leader in nearly every key offensive category, even stolen bases. The game had been billed as a pitchers" duel between R. A. Dickey of the Mets and Gio Gonzalez of the Nationals, who started the day tied for the league lead with 12 wins. Dickey did his part, to an extent, lasting seven and one-third innings, giving up 10 hits and 4 runs, 3 of which were earned, to improve to 13-1 on the season. Gonzalez (12-5) did not. This was in part because Wright altered the game's character from the get-go. He came up with one out and a runner on base in the first inning and sent a first-pitch fastball from Gonzalez soaring beyond the visitors" bullpen in left-center field. Ryan Zimmerman - like Wright a third baseman who bats third - imbued some symmetry to the inning in the bottom half when he hit a home run into the stands in left-center, a few yards from where Wright's had landed, to cut the Nationals" deficit to 2-1. Ike Davis kept the Mets humming when he homered to open the second. Gonzalez tossed a 2-2 curveball that hung ripe over the plate, and Davis smashed it over the fence in straightaway center field, restoring the Mets" lead to two. Gonzalez got the next two outs, pounded the inside of his glove and muttered to himself. The Mets kept up the pressure. In the third, Gonzalez intentionally walked Wright with two men on to load the bases with no one out. Scott Hairston grounded into a double play that scored Ruben Tejada from third. Jason Bay followed with a walk, the Mets" first of the series, then Davis sliced a single to left to drive in another run for a 5-1 Mets lead. Gonzalez's day came to an end when Manager Davey Johnson retrieved him with one out in the fourth and a runner on second. Walking slowly across the grass, Gonzalez grimaced as he stared into the sky. Reliever Craig Stammen fared no better. Tejada sent a run home with his single to center. With two on, Wright homered to center field to increase the Mets" lead to 9-1. But the Nationals crept back. Michael Morse's sacrifice fly to right field in the sixth gave them their second run. Morse smacked a double to right to drive in another run off Dickey in the eighth. That ended Dickey's afternoon. The Nationals drew to 9-4 when Wright's throwing error allowed Morse to score from second. Then Bryce Harper flied out with the bases loaded to end the eighth. In the ninth, Mets reliever Bobby Parnell allowed a leadoff single and hit the next batter. He got the next two outs, then allowed an infield single to Roger Bernadina, which drove in another run. But Parnell struck out Sandy Leon with runners on second and third to end the game, giving Dickey his 13th victory. Wright had helped the Mets build a lead that even their beleaguered bullpen could not bungle.