NEW YORK - Heath Bell kept throwing, hoping he could find the one pitch that would let him escape.
He never did.
Miami's All-Star closer faltered again, walking four batters in the ninth inning and helping the New York Mets rally for a 3-2 win Thursday that sent the Marlins to their fifth straight loss.
"When you in this game for a little while, you got a lot of different ways to lose," Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. "You look at stats and say, 'Why we lose the game? What we do wrong?' "
After Ricky Nolasco threw seven sharp innings and reliever Randy Choate worked the eighth, Guillen summoned Bell to protect a 2-1 lead.
Pitching for the first time in a week, and standing in a steady drizzle, Bell (0-3) couldn't find the plate. He wound up throwing a whopping 46 pitches.
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"I felt really good. I felt that my pitches were there. I felt like I threw the pitches where I wanted for the most part. I think 95 percent of the time, I was right where I needed to be," Bell said. "Yeah, I did walk some guys."
Bell's third blown save in five chances during his first year with the Marlins allowed the Mets to finish off a three-game sweep.
"I believe in him," Guillen said of Bell.
"I don't know about tomorrow. I don't think he going to pitch tomorrow. He throw more pitches than Nolasco. But, he's the guy right now," he said. "He's my closer and I'm not going to change my mind until he changes my mind. We have confidence in him and I think he'll be fine."
David Wright drew a leadoff walk in the Mets' ninth and one-out passes to Ike Davis and Josh Thole loaded the bases for Justin Turner, who's 3 for 8 as a pinch hitter this year.
Turner drew a bases-loaded walk in a sensational 13-pitch at-bat to tie it. After a force-out at the plate, Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit a one-hopper off the right-field wall for a winning single.
Turner fell behind in the count 0-2 and later fouled off seven pitches before his walk made it 2-all.
