PHILADELPHIA -- Jonathon Niese stayed warm, and the surprising New York Mets cooled off Philadelphia. Niese pitched seven steady innings on a rainy Tuesday night and Daniel Murphy had three hits to lead New York to a 6-1 victory over the Phillies. Ruben Tejada doubled and had two RBIs for the Mets, who chased Cole Hamels in the fifth and have won seven of nine. They improved to 15-11 overall, marking the first time New York has been four games over .500 since July 14, 2012. "Conditions are really tough and Jon just keeps cruising along," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "You have to be pretty impressed with the way hes going about it. He used all of his pitches. It seemed like he had good command of his curveball even though it was wet. ... He went out and pitched another great game." Marlon Byrd homered and Ryan Howard had two hits with a double for Philadelphia, which lost for only the third time in nine games. The start was delayed by rain for 1 hour, 28 minutes, and the temperature at first pitch was a chilly 46 degrees. Many in the announced crowd of 28,189 who braved the cold were dressed more appropriately for a Philadelphia Eagles football game in December, with hooded sweat shirts, winter coats and wool blankets. There was a misty rain for the first 2 1/2 innings before heavy rain began to fall in the bottom of the third. The rain tapered off to a drizzle before becoming heavy again in the seventh. The weather hardly affected Niese (2-2), who didnt allow a hit until Byrds two-out homer in the fourth. The left-hander gave up four hits while striking out five and walking one. "It was another cold one," Niese said, "but it seems like the more I pitch in cold weather, the more I figure out how to stay warm." Niese sat near a heater in the Mets dugout and kept his hands in his jacket pockets, which contained hand warmers. While on the mound, Niese said he made sure to move around constantly rather than stand still. "I was able to effectively throw my pitches," he said. Said Murphy, "He threw the ball great. It was a treat to watch from second base." Hamels (0-2) struggled in his first home start of the season, allowing six runs on eight hits with five walks and a hit batter in 4 2-3 innings. Seeking his 100th career victory, Hamels lost the strike zone in the fourth when he walked four batters, including Niese with the bases loaded, as the Mets took a 3-0 lead. Hamels was making his second start of the season after opening on the disabled list due to left biceps tendinitis. The leftys ERA rose to 6.75 as he dropped to 2-8 in his last 10 home starts against the Mets. Murphy had a two-out RBI single in the third, and Josh Satin singled home a run in the fourth. "Ive never seen Cole be that erratic, and Im sure a lot of that was the conditions," Collins said. "Its early in the year and he missed a lot of spring training. Hell be fine, Im sure." Hamels said the conditions made it difficult to pitch but blamed himself for not being able to adjust better. "The elements got the best of me today," he said. "From my standpoint, Im truly embarrassed because I didnt really give anyone a chance." Hamels said a lack of perspiration made gripping the ball difficult. "When youre able to perspire, youre able to get certain types of grips with the baseball," he said, before joking: "Today might have been the day to use pine tar, but unfortunately I dont do that. It might have been the day to learn. It was difficult to throw the baseball and difficult to throw strikes. You have to be able to battle out there, and I wasnt able to do it." Byrds homer pulled the Phillies to 3-1, but New York chased Hamels when it got an RBI double from Chris Young and a two-run single from Tejeda to make it 6-1 in the fifth. 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"I do believe that if youre as transparent as we were at the time - with our season seat holders, our fans, the market place and the media - everybody knew what the plan was and what we were going through.Defensive lapses and sub-par goaltending have proved costly during the Vancouver Canucks longest losing streak of the season. Theyll try to clean things up and end the skid tonight when they host the Dallas Stars, who have won the last five meetings. Catch all the action on TSN Radio 1040 in Vancouver starting at 5pm pt. Vancouver (18-10-2) was tied for first in the Western Conference on Dec. 4 but has since dropped four straight. The latest defeat came Saturday, when the Canucks gave up three goals in the first 6:46 and lost 5-1 at home to the New York Rangers. Vancouver has limited opponents to one power-play goal on 15 chances during the slide, but its been susceptible to giving up goals in spurts. The Canucks surrendered two goals in spans of fewer than two minutes twice in a 5-3 loss to Toronto on Dec. 6, then gave up three straight goals during an 8:05 stretch of a 4-3 overtime defeat in Ottawa on Dec. 7. Theres no excuse for that. We know that weve got to be better than that, coach Willie Desjardins said. Sometimes theres nights like this. Theyre never acceptable, but the only thing we can do is get better. We have no choice. The only choice we have is to get better. Vancouver has allowed 17 goals during the losing streak and Ryan Miller has posted a 4.11 goals-against average in dropping four of his last five starts. Eddie Lack will be in net for the Canucks tonight. Youre going to go through a season, youre going to have to find a way to dig out of things, Miller said. This is our first opportunity to have to dig out of a hole thats a little deeper than usual. 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Tyler Seguin, who scored his 23rd goal to easily lead the league, has four goals and seven assists in his last five meetings with Vancouver. The Stars are trying to end a four-game road losing streak as they open a three-game trip. Theyve allowed five power-play goals in 21 opportunities over their last four away from home. It really is one game at a time. Lets move on to the next one, coach Lindy Ruff told the teams official website. ... Weve got to get back to playing good hockey on the road again. Before its most recent victory in the series, Dallas had held Vancouver to one goal each time in the previous four wins. Stars (27PTS) at Canucks (38PTS) DAL is 1-0-0 vs VAN this season, winning at home DAL has won 5 straight vs VAN VAN (18-10-2): 0-3-1 past 4 games, 17GA, 0/12 on PP 2-2-1 past 5 home games, 10GF, 0/9 on PP 12-2-1 when scoring first Hansen (2A) past 2GP DAL (11-13-5): 2-1-0 past 3 games, all at home, 3/11 on PP lost 4 straight on the road, 21GA, 1/12 on PP Seguin (5G, 2A) 4 game PT streak Cole (2G) vs VAN this season ' ' '