NEW YORK -- Once they got Zack Greinke back on the mound, the Arizona Diamondbacks looked a lot better than a last-place team.The ace won in his return from a six-week stay on the disabled list, Michael Bourn hit a go-ahead triple in the seventh inning and the Diamondbacks rallied past the New York Mets 5-3 Tuesday night.It just gets guys invigorated, Arizona manager Chip Hale said. Guys are excited to play behind him.Greinke (11-3) earned his eighth straight victory. He had been out since June 28, when he strained his left side while batting.Today is about as good as it gets, he said. Everybody kind of clicked. Starter was semi-decent.Paul Goldschmidt and late substitute Brandon Drury each homered for Arizona, stuck 20 games below .500 and last in the NL West. The Diamondbacks also stole five bases, with a double steal setting up Bourns two-run liner that erased a 3-2 deficit.Neil Walker hit his 20th home run for the wild card-contending Mets, who missed a chance to post back-to-back wins for the first time in more than a month.Greinke gave up three runs on five hits and a walk in six innings. It was the first time he faced the Mets since losing the decisive Game 5 of the NL Division Series last October while with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Felt pretty good, he said. Pretty solid.A solid hitter, Greinke took no chances taking big swings. He watched three called strikes in a row his first time up, then put down a sacrifice bunt.Jake Barrett closed for his fourth save.Steven Matz was in position for just his second win in 13 starts before Mets reliever Hansel Robles (5-4) got tagged. Matz matched his big league best by striking out nine in six innings, throwing a career-high 120 pitches.The Mets havent won two in a row since July 6-7, and are 10-14 since the All-Star break.Its definitely frustrating, but I think each of us individually has still got to go about our business and do our own work, Matz said. We cant worry, this games over.Chris Owings doubled off Robles to begin the seventh and pinch-hitter Phil Gosselin drew a one-out walk. They pulled off a double steal before Jean Segura struck out, and Bourn tripled to the right-center gap for a 4-3 lead. Goldschmidt followed with an RBI single.Drury started in right field in place of Yasmany Tomas, a late scratch because of a stiff neck. Drury hit a leadoff homer in the second and singled. He also made a diving catch on a drive by Matz.Tomas told Hale that hed spent the day off Monday watching the Olympics and that his neck began to hurt.Well blame it on a bad pillow, Hale said, adding he wasnt sure if Tomas would feel OK to play Wednesday night.Goldschmidt hit his 18th homer, a solo shot in the sixth for a 2-1 lead.Walker hit a two-run homer off Greinke in the sixth, sending a drive into the Arizona bullpen in right-center field.Arizona came out running, with Segura swiping his 20th base and Bourn also stealing in the first. Rickie Weeks Jr. stole second in the fourth.CROWDED `PENThe Diamondbacks bullpen got a bit full during their comeback in the seventh, with several police officers and security officials roaming around. Moments later, a fan sitting above the bullpen was ushered away.I think he was yelling, saying some inappropriate stuff, Arizona reliever Adam Loewen said.HARD TO BEATGreinke improved to 9-0 with a 1.96 ERA in 12 road starts dating to last season. ... Greinke is 10-0 in his last 15 starts vs. NL East teams and 18-1 in 29 starts against them overall.TRAINERS ROOMDiamondbacks: C Welington Castillo went on the paternity list after wife Kissalry gave birth to a boy. Castillo will miss this series and rejoin the team in Boston on Friday. ... SS Nick Ahmed got a second opinion on his injured right hip from New York Rangers head physician Dr. Bryan Kelly. Ahmed, on the DL since July 22, has an impingement and will get a cortisone shot.Mets: Switch-hitting INF Jose Reyes (oblique) is still having trouble swinging from the right side. His rehab assignment has been backed up a day or two. ... SS Asdrubal Cabrera (knee) is progressing a bit more slowly than the team expected, general manager Sandy Alderson said. Cabrera has started to hit off a tee. ... OF Yoenis Cespedes (quad) will hopefully be ready to come off the DL as soon as hes eligible, Alderson said.UP NEXTDiamondbacks: LHP Robbie Ray (5-11, 4.83 ERA) is averaging 11.31 strikeouts per nine innings. He has fanned at least nine in three straight starts.Mets: RHP Bartolo Colon (10-6, 3.46) has never beaten the Diamondbacks, the only major league club he hasnt defeated. He is 0-1 in two career starts against them. Royals Jerseys 2020 . -- For the first time in two months, an opponent was standing up to Alabama. Kansas City Royals Shirts .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. https://www.cheaproyals.com/ . Tests earlier this week revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain for Sabathia, who was hurt in last Fridays start against San Francisco. 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SAN DIEGO -- Four city council members are offering San Diego Chargers owner Dean Spanos a lease of $1 a year for 99 years for the Qualcomm Stadium site as a starting point for negotiations for a new stadium.The offer will be in a letter due to be sent to Spanos on Tuesday, with copies going to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the 31 other NFL owners.It comes six weeks after a Chargers-written ballot measure asking for $1.15 billion in increased hotel taxes for a new downtown stadium was soundly defeated, the latest twist in the teams long, bitter attempt to replace aging Qualcomm Stadium in Mission Valley.The Chargers have until Jan. 15 to exercise an option to move to Los Angeles and join the Rams in a stadium in Inglewood scheduled to open in 2019.Councilman Scott Sherman, whose district includes Qualcomm Stadium, shared a copy of the letter with The Associated Press on Monday evening.The hour is late, and the time to find a stadium solution is getting dangerously short, the letter started.The last two paragraphs read: Before leaving 60 years of tradition and loyal fans, lets give one last concerted effort to come to the table and hammer this out face to face, working together toward a common goal of keeping the NFL in Americas Finest City. If we fail to come to an agreement, at least we will know that nothing was left untested and we can part ways knowing that we gave it our all.We ask that the Chargers give San Diego fans another chance.It will be signed by Sherman, Chris Cate, new council president Myrtle Cole and Lorie Zapf.Sherman and Cate opposed Measure C but want the Chargers to stay in San Diego, preferably in Mission Valley. They hope the letter can get the Chargers to the negotiating table for the first time in 1 1/2 years.The Chargers rejected a city-county plan for a new stadium at the Qualcomm site in 2015, and then voters rejected Measure C.So heres another starting point, and lets not give up on 60 years of tradition and fan loyalty, Sherman told the AP.The Chargers didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.The tricky part, of course, is coming up with a plan to pay for a new stadium.Sherman and Cate said theyd like to see the Chargers, NFL and a development partner build a stadium. Both council members said they hoped it could get done with no public money.At the end of the dayy, 166 acres in the geographic center of the eighth-largest city in the country is the perfect spot to develop, Sherman said.dddddddddddd Im convinced we could get over 50 percent (of a vote) with that. This is all just a starting point to start the discussion. The way we laid it out with the lease, its a large incentive to come to the table.In 2004, the Chargers failed in their attempt to get the city to give them a large chunk of the Qualcomm property in exchange for privately developing a stadium.The cheap lease deal is as close as getting the land given to you as possible, Sherman said.The Chargers walked away from talks with the city and county in June 2015 and focused on a plan to build a stadium in a Los Angeles suburb with the rival Oakland Raiders. That plan was defeated by NFL owners in January in favor of the Rams Inglewood plan, but the Chargers were given the option of moving to L.A. If they decide to move, theyll have to make a deal with either the Coliseum or the 27,000-seat StubHub! Center as a temporary home.Mayor Kevin Faulconer has had private talks with Spanos and a team representative in recent weeks. Details of those talks werent made public.We need to hear from the organization what their concerns are, and if theyre even open to having a discussion for Mission Valley, Cate told the AP. These are things we need to hear from them about. The fans need to hear from them, too. What does success look like to them? We havent been able to have a discussion as a council with them. This lets them know were willing to have that conversation.Sherman said he hopes people with the NFL note that for the first time, four sitting council members say this is something we can support and move forward from here, something thats never happened before.Is this a final Hail Mary from City Hall?I think were going to continue to push as long as they havent called U-Haul and havent t moved the trucks up, Cate said. Were going to continue to have proactive outreach to the team to see if we can open dialogue. This is the opening salvo.---Follow Bernie Wilson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/berniewilson---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '