Dillon Gee Helps Mets Bounce Back DENVER - For the second night in a row, the Mets" offense hummed, but this time, the effort was not washed away by a deluge of foul pitching and defense. For that, thanks went to Dillon Gee, whose changeup deadened the bats of the Colorado Rockies, who had been so hot the previous night in their 18-run demolition of the Mets. After the Mets on Friday night showed how treacherous Coors Field, with its thin air and spacious outfield gaps, could be for careless pitchers, Gee demonstrated Saturday night how to effectively navigate its dangers. He kept the Rockies off balance, and the baseball, as a result, remained safely on the ground. Following his lead, the Mets won, 7-5, showing no hangover from the previous night's ugliness. They improved to 12-9 in front of 38,798 fans. The Mets had 13 hits, one night after getting 17, and several players contributed to the effort. Ruben Tejada, Daniel Murphy and David Wright each had three hits. Wright and Lucas Duda combined for six runs batted in. But before the Mets became comfortable, the game began with an ominous echo of the spectacularly bad six-error loss of the previous night. Marco Scutaro led off the first with a single, stole second, advanced to third when Josh Thole's throw sailed wide of the base, and scored when Troy Tulowitzki grounded into a fielder's choice. But Gee settled down, the defense committed no more errors, and the Mets" offense fired back. Wright, who started the game with a .363 average at Coors Field, opened the second with a single. Then Duda, on a 2-1 count, blasted a 91-mile-per-hour fastball into the bullpen in right-center field to put the Mets ahead, 2-1. Duda, who started the season slowly, was heating up of late, entering the game with a .318 average in his previous 13 games. The home run was his fourth of the season. The next inning, the Mets rallied with consecutive two-out singles. Wright, facing a full count, then reached down and smacked a low slider into left field for a double, scoring Tejada from second. After the Rockies went ahead, 4-3, with three runs in the fourth, Wright delivered again in the fifth. His run-scoring single to right tied the game at 4-4, then Duda slapped a two-run single to center field, snatching the lead back for the Mets. Guillermo Moscoso's first start of the season ended after five innings, during which he allowed nine hits and six runs. He had been called into emergency duty when the scheduled starter, Jeremy Guthrie, sprained his right shoulder after falling off his bicycle while pedaling to Coors Field on Friday afternoon. Gee, who gave up 7 runs and 12 hits in his previous outing, rebounded with a strong effort Saturday. He pitched seven innings, gave up seven hits and three earned runs, and struck out seven. After allowing the early run, Gee's only other problematic inning came in the fourth. The Rockies opened the inning with two singles, then Todd Helton sneaked a hard grounder inside the right-field line, just beyond the glove of first baseman Ike Davis, for a double that scored Carlos Gonzalez . Michael Cuddyer followed with a run-scoring single, and he scored two outs later when Moscoso lined his first major league hit to right field to give the Rockies a 4-3 lead. But the Mets" offense persisted, taking back the lead, and padding it in the ninth when Mike Baxter scored on a wild pitch by Edgmer Escalona. In the bottom half, Frank Francisco allowed a two-out solo home run to Dexter Fowler and a triple to Tyler Colvin, but he retired Jason Giambi to get the save for Gee, who threw 116 pitches, a career high, with 77 of them going for strikes. It was a gallant and economical effort on a night when the Mets, still smarting from the previous night's debacle, were in desperate need of one. Terry Collins said he planned to play Ike Davis, who entered Saturday's game with a .132 average, in each of the Mets" remaining games during the trip, despite the fact that they are set to face left-handers in three of the next four games. "We've got to get this guy going, and not playing him is not helping him," Collins said of Davis, who went 1 for 3. ... Scott Hairston, who on Friday became the 10th player in Mets history to hit for the cycle, was 0 for 4. ... Josh Thole's hitting streak ended at 10 games. He went 0 for 4.