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Italian Valerio Conti won stage 13 of the Vuelta a Espana as Nairo Quintana retained the leaders red jersey ahead of Britains Chris Froome.Conti, 23, celebrated the greatest moment of his career to date when he stormed to a solo victory in the hilly 213.4km ride between Bilbao and Urdax-Dantxarinea to secure his Lampre-Merida team their first stage win in this years race.Movistars Quintana retained the overall lead as the grand classification contenders rolled in together 33 minutes behind the stage winner, who started the day almost two hours down in the standings.Team Skys Froome remains 54 seconds behind Quintana as he bids to become the first man since 1978 to win the Tour de France and Vuelta in the same year.A breakaway group of 12 riders formed after 19km with Sergey Lagutin, who will wear the polka dot jersey on Saturday, and Romain Cardis making their presence felt.With none of the riders a threat to the GC riders, the break was allowed to go away for the day, with Conti riding clear in the final 20km to take victory.The race enters the Pyrenees on Saturday, with stage 14 a gruelling 196km trek from Urdax-Dantxarinea to the Col dAubisque that contains four classified climbs. 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He has three goals and five assists through 36 games with the Leafs this season.PHILADELPHIA -- Ryan Howard took a big cut, the ball soared off his bat and he paused to admire his shot like hes done for so many of his 381 career homers.A stiff wind turned this one into a double but the Big Piece has two more games left to go deep once more.Howard started his final series with the Phillies by going 1 for 4 and the New York Mets moved closer to securing a wild-card berth with a 5-1 win over Philadelphia on Friday night.Howard, the 2006 NL MVP, is the last player remaining from the 2008 World Series championship team. The Phillies plan to pay him a $10 million buyout rather than exercise a $25 million option for 2017.Hes business as usual, manager Pete Mackanin said of Howard. I think somewhere down the road itll hit him and hell have that nostalgia, but right now hes all business.Jay Bruce homered for the third straight game and drove in three runs, and Robert Gsellman threw six sharp innings to lead the Mets.The defending NL champions reduced their magic number to one. The Mets began the night atop the wild-card race, with San Francisco one game back and St. Louis two behind.Phillies starter Alec Asher (2-1) gave up three runs and five hits in six innings.Ive pitched like I know, Asher said. I just want to carry it on to next year the way Ive been doing. I know theres stuff I can work on, but I think Im going in the right direction.Asher retired the first 11 batters before he ran into trouble with two outs in the fourth when Yoenis Cespedes and Curtis Granderson hit consecutive singles.Bruce and T.J. Rivera followed with back-to-back RBI singles for a 2-1 lead.More Mets fans were inside a half-empty ballpark on a wet, chilly night in Philadelphia. The blue-and-oraange faithful screamed Lets Go Mets and their Bruuuuuce chants drowned out boos from Phillies fans.dddddddddddd.Bruce connected in the seventh, sending his 33rd homer the opposite-way to left field. The Mets added two runs, including another RBI single by Bruce.Earlier in the inning, Howard let Cespedes infield pop fall untouched near the first-base bag, allowing a runner to score from third.Howard hit a double to deep center his first time up. Cameron Rupps sacrifice fly followed Howards double and put the Phillies ahead 1-0.STATSBruce is 10 for 20 with four homers and eight RBIS in his last six games. ... Mets are 15-2 after an off day. ... Mets tied a franchise record with 106 homers on the road. They already have a franchise-best 217 homers.TOSSEDMackanin was ejected for the first time this season in the eighth inning by first baseman umpire Will Little. Mackanin perhaps thought Cespedes swung at an inside pitch from Michael Mariot and was tossed once he walked onto the field.TRAINERS ROOMPhillies: SS Freddy Galvis left the game because of tightness in his right hamstring.LOOKING AHEADMackanin emerged from a long meeting with coaches and front-office executives hopeful the team will add a veteran hitter in the offseason. I would like to get a good solid proven hitter somewhere on the field, he said. Where that is right now will be determined by who is available and what kind of a deal, if any, they could make.UP NEXTRHP Bartolo Colon (14-8, 3.42 ERA) starts for the Mets against RHP Phil Klein (0-1, 8.22) for the Phillies. Colon is 10-5 vs. Philadelphia. ' ' '