NEW YORK -- Cole Hamels maintained his focus and walked away a winner after 3 1/2 hours of dreary baseball Wednesday night. "Im glad I play it, but I wouldnt be watching it," he said. Hamels pitched seven strong innings and handed himself some much-needed run support, sending the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-2 victory over the New York Mets. Carlos Ruiz homered and the Phillies overcame a couple of mental mistakes by Jimmy Rollins to win for only the third time in 17 road games. Hamels hit a two-run single to help Philadelphia improve to 8-5 under interim manager Ryne Sandberg. This was no masterpiece, though. Mets starter Daisuke Matsuzaka took an interminable amount of time between pitches and threw 82 over the first three innings. Hamels worked at a much faster pace but irritated fans by making seven straight tosses to first base with Eric Young Jr. aboard. Young stole second anyway. One night after Jonathon Nieses three-hit shutout for the Mets lasted 2 hours, 19 minutes, thats how long it took to play 5 1/2 innings in a game between also-rans that ultimately dragged on for 3:32. About halfway through, a television camera fixed on Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee spinning a crushed water bottle in the dugout. "Unfortunately, sometimes when you have games like this, you just have to go out there and try to be effective from pitch one and make sure that your warmup pitches are right on par," Hamels said. "Its a lot of self-motivating and just trying to stay in the game as much as possible, which is a lot easier said than done." Matsuzaka (0-2) laboured through 4 1-3 innings on Japanese Heritage Night in his second start for the new-look Mets, who have dropped six of seven. Depleted by key injuries and Tuesdays trade that sent Marlon Byrd and John Buck to Pittsburgh, New York fell to 2-6 on a nine-game homestand. "Todays game was pretty self-explanatory, I think," Matsuzaka said through a translator. "I was all over the place today, all over the zone." The Mets made three errors after going six games without one, which matched a season high. Hindered by the fifth-worst run support in the majors this season, Hamels (6-13) worked around nine hits and improved to 2-0 with a 2.00 ERA in six August starts. The left-hander struck out eight, walked one and upped his career record to 7-12 against the Mets. "Hes pitched well all year," Sandberg said. While rain postponed afternoon tennis matches at the U.S. Open next door, the Phillies and Mets stayed dry throughout a drab evening that matched the pace of the game. Hamels grounded a two-run single to left field off reliever Robert Carson in the fifth to make it 4-1. That gave Hamels, a career .170 hitter entering the game, four RBIs this season and answered a three-run double by Niese the previous night. "That was huge," Sandberg said. Rollins failed to cover third base on a third-inning popup along the third base line. Noticing that the shortstop was flat-footed, the speedy Young alertly tagged up at second and beat Rollins and Ruiz to the bag. Ike Davis followed with an RBI single on an 0-2 pitch, his 10th hit in 67 at-bats (.149) against left-handers to that point. Rollins made up for his gaffe with a tying double in the fourth -- but got cut down at third for the third out. It was Rollins first RBI in 15 games, his longest drought since August 2005, according to STATS. A ground-rule double by Michael Young set up the Phillies in the fifth and made him 10 for 17 (.588) off Matsuzaka, who forced in the go-ahead run by hitting John Mayberry Jr. with a pitch. That was it for Matsuzaka, charged with four runs, four walks and six hits in his second major league start of the season. "Hes definitely deliberate, but like I said, you have to adapt and adjust to his pace of play because ultimately he controls it," Mayberry said. The former Red Sox star was pitching in Clevelands farm system before he was granted his release last week. The Mets signed him to fill a hole in their injury-depleted rotation the rest of the way. "I do know the history of, you know, he does take some time between pitches. But I will tell you, his stuffs good enough," New York manager Terry Collins said. "Tonight the command was off and therefore he was off." Ruiz hit a solo homer off Carson in the sixth. Andrew Brown had an RBI double for the Mets in the seventh. "Wow. It was a long day," Ruiz said. "It was hard to stay focused, waiting that long." NOTES: All-Star OF Domonic Brown sat out again with a sore right heel. He hasnt started since being lifted Saturday, but Sandberg said Brown is getting close. ... 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"I have to understand who I am as a player and I understand what I can do, and just go out there and treat this like its any other game ... and try to help the Houston Astros win," he said. The 24-year-old outfielder had 37 homers and 108 RBIs with 45 stolen bases combined in Double-A and Triple-A last year. He was off to a strong start in Triple-A this season, too, hitting .353 with three homers and nine RBIs. There was a buzz around the ballpark on Wednesday with Springers arrival. The hashtag SpringerDay was trending on Twitter in Houston and fans were excitedly tweeting all day about his debut. General manager Jeff Luhnow was a little giddy about Springers call-up, too. "We dont want to rest all our hopes on one player, but hes a pretty good player and theres more behind him," Luhnow said. "If he does well, I think it will lift our team (which) is now struggling a little bitt and lift our citys spirits and give us hope that theres more like him coming.dddddddddddd Thats exciting. Thats what weve been working for." Springer was selected 11th overall by the Astros out of UConn in the 2011 amateur draft. Manager Bo Porter said he will be Houstons everyday right fielder. "When you look at ... the production in which hes been putting up and if you look at the woes weve had offensively and trying to get our offence going and having a guy of his calibre that we can plug into our offence, he can definitely help," Porter said. Springer knows people are looking for big things from him, but is careful not to get caught up in the hype. "The goal at the end of the day isnt about the future, it isnt about me, it isnt about anybody else, its about the Houston Astros and thats to go out and win," he said. His parents flew in from Connecticut to be at Wednesdays game and his father raved about his namesake. "Youre going to see some pretty special things out on the field ... his whole approach to the game," the elder George Springer said. "And he has a smile thats as infectious as it is contagious, and Im looking forward to seeing it myself because Im a baseball fan, too." ' ' '