PHILADELPHIA -- Not a whole lot went right for the Phillies in a chilly rain-soaked game at Citizens Bank Park against the Mets on Wednesday night.

Johan Rojas dropped a routine fly ball on the very first play of the game. Cristian Pache later made a throw to second from the left-field wall that ended up against the first-base railing. Nick Castellanos ran into an easy out at second base. J.T. Realmuto ran into another -- at home plate.

That was all behind National League Cy Young contender Ranger Suárez, who walked two batters (in the same inning), hit another and uncorked a wild pitch, all while lasting a season-low-tying five innings. Yet when he walked off the mound after the top of the fifth, the Phillies were trailing by only one run.

With Su¨¢rez¡¯s unbeaten record hanging in the balance, Bryce Harper delivered a message when he got back to the dugout.

¡°Let's get him a 'W,¡¯¡± Harper said as soon as he reached the home dugout in the middle of the fifth.

And that¡¯s exactly what the Phillies did.

Harper roped a two-run double to cap a four-run fifth inning en route to a 10-5 win over the Mets. Thanks to the decisive rally, Su¨¢rez improved to 8-0 with a 1.37 ERA -- the lowest mark by any Phillies pitcher through the first nine starts of a season since the National League began tracking earned runs in 1912.

¡°Obviously, we know what he's doing right now,¡± Harper said of Su¨¢rez. ¡°So you just want to pick up your teammates and play the best baseball we can."

Along with the best ERA in franchise history through nine starts, Su¨¢rez has won eight consecutive starts after a no-decision to open the season. He¡¯s 8-0 with a 1.00 ERA, 51 strikeouts and nine walks in those eight outings.

Su¨¢rez is just the seventh pitcher in AL/NL history to win eight straight starts within a single season while posting a 1.00 ERA or better, 50 strikeouts and fewer than 10 walks. The others: Clayton Kershaw (2014), Cliff Lee (2009), Johan Santana (2004), Roger Clemens (1990), Bob Gibson (1968) and Juan Marichal (1967).

¡°It was not a great night for me; it wasn't a great game for me,¡± said Su¨¢rez, who struck out three and allowed just the two unearned runs. ¡°But the important thing is we got the win.¡±

That¡¯s seemingly been a constant over the past month for the Phillies, who scrapped their way to a third straight win over the Mets while improving to 23-5 over their past 28 games. That¡¯s tied for the best 28-game stretch in franchise history. The only other Phillies teams to go 23-5 at any point in a season were the 2010 and 1976 clubs ¨C both eventual division champions.

¡°It was a little sloppy -- on the field and the play, too -- but we got it done,¡± manager Rob Thomson said. ¡°You're going to have games like that, but our guys, they keep grinding. They keep fighting.¡±

That¡¯s not to say the Phillies will ignore the mistakes.

Rojas, long after his game-opening error, had another ball glance off his glove for a run-scoring double in the eighth.

¡°I just have to catch those balls. There's no excuse from me,¡± Rojas said via an interpreter. ¡°I'll just come here tomorrow to work on that and make those plays.¡±

But it wasn¡¯t just Rojas.

In addition to Philadelphia¡¯s two errors and aforementioned baserunning miscues, Edmundo Sosa lost track of the count on Kyle Schwarber¡¯s bases-loaded walk in the fifth and had to be directed to the plate by third-base coach Dusty Wathan.

"We don't want to make those mistakes as a team, right?¡± Harper said. ¡°We all knew that. So coming into that fifth inning, we knew we made some mistakes and gave them some runs. You can't make mistakes like that against a really good team, so we've got to clean that up, obviously."

Then, the Phillies flipped a switch to get those runs back -- and then some.

¡°Every time I go to pitch, I just try to keep the game close so we have a chance to win,¡± Su¨¢rez said. ¡°We know the team that we have; we know the offense we have. Any given time, we can score five or six runs in an inning.¡±

And the way Su¨¢rez is pitching, that figures to be more than enough.

¡°8-0 is pretty special, man,¡± Harper said.