With a Hit Here, and Another There, the Mets Defeat the Marlins MIAMI - The Mets" 9-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Saturday afternoon was a substantial one, without a doubt, but one manufactured, bit by bit, through small contributions from all corners of their team. Sarah Glenn/Getty Images R. A. Dickey gave up nine hits and a walk, and left the game having allowed just two runs. The Mets" offense - devoid of much firepower, through injury and off-season austerity - recorded 16 hits, though just three of them were for extra bases. Rather, it was a slow, arrhythmic sequence of singles (13), walks (4) and hit batsmen (2) that gradually propelled the team. As this occurred, R. A. Dickey, the Mets" most dependable starter, added his own stalwart effort on the mound, while also getting involved in a blemish-free team defensive performance. The Mets" bullpen, which gifted the Marlins a comeback win Friday night, worked three tension-free innings to lock down the team's 19th win of the year. Dickey, who has produced quality outings with clockwork regularity, gave the Mets six more strong innings. He gave up nine hits and a walk, but left the game having allowed just two runs. He also was involved in two successful rundowns and made a nifty fielding play on a grounder by Mike Stanton. Dickey pitched his last two innings while fighting the sting of a fastball he took to the arm during a fifth inning that sealed the Mets win. With the bases loaded, Ricky Nolasco nailed Dickey with a 90-mile-per-hour pitch on the inside part of his right wrist. As Dickey doubled over in pain for a few moments, Daniel Murphy trotted in from third, increasing the Mets" lead at the time to 4-1. Dickey then had to skip out of the way of Andres Torres's grounder, which rolled through the right side of the infield and scored two more runs for the Mets, knocking Nolasco from the game. Nolasco was having a rough night before the fifth inning anyway, opening the game with two straight walks before allowing a run-scoring single to David Wright. After his teammates evened the game with a run off Dickey in the second, Nolasco misfired in the third with a fastball to Wright and then watched it sail over the right field fence for a solo home run. Wright added another run-scoring single in the ninth, bringing his tally of runs batted in this season to 21 and inflating his average to .402. Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Daniel Murphy, and Ronny Cedeno each drove in runs, helping the Mets piece together a comfortable lead that easily absorbed run-scoring hits by the Marlins in the sixth and seventh innings.