Recap: NY Mets vs. Houston

By Sports Network

Flushing, NY (Sports Network) - Nelson Figueroa threw the first shutout of his career to help the New York Mets to a 4-0 win over the Houston Astros in the last game of the season for both teams.

Figueroa (3-8), who had dropped his past five starts, gave up just four hits and struck out seven for the Mets (70-92), who closed a disappointing 2009 campaign with a three-game sweep of the Astros. Josh Thole went 3-for-4 with an RBI while Angel Pagan was 4-for-4 with two doubles and a triple.

Miguel Tejada doubled to extend his hitting streak to 21 games for the Astros (74-88), who dropped five of their final six games. Wilton Lopez (0-2) took the loss for giving up four runs -- three earned -- on six hits with two walks and a strikeout over five innings.

The Mets got on the board in the third as Pagan hit a one-out triple and Luis Castillo followed with a sacrifice fly for a 1-0 lead.

Tejada hit a leadoff double in the fourth and moved to third on a groundout by Lance Berkman, but Carlos Lee lined out and Hunter Pence struck out.

New York padded its lead in the fourth on an RBI single from Thole and a run- scoring fielder's choice from Anderson Hernandez for a 3-0 lead.

David Wright's sacrifice fly in the fifth scored Pagan, who doubled and moved to third on Castillo's groundout, for a 4-0 advantage.

Figueroa threw perfect sixth, seventh and eighth innings, then worked around a two-out single by Berkman in the ninth to close the season.