NY Mets 3, St. Louis 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
Temperature:
51°
Umpires:
Home -
Marty Foster, 1B -
Alan Porter, 2B -
Rob Drake, 3B -
Jeff Kellogg
Attendance:
21981
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Mets 3, Cardinals 2: Jonathon Niese was strong through 6 2/3 innings and host New York took advantage of Michael Wacha's wildness and got a big defensive play in the ninth to top St. Louis.
Lucas Duda homered and Ruben Tejada and Kirk Nieuwenhuis had RBIs for the Mets with bases-loaded walks. Niese (1-2) yielded one run and six hits while striking out three to improve to 4-1 with a 1.87 ERA in six career starts versus the Cardinals.
Wacha (2-2) recorded his first nine outs via strikeout and finished with a career-high 10, but he also walked a career-high five and needed 93 pitches to get through four innings, the shortest start of his career. Matt Carpenter had four hits and Yadier Molina was 3-for-3 with a first-inning RBI double for St. Louis, which aims for a split of the four-game series Thursday afternoon.
Wacha became the seventh pitcher all-time to record nine strikeouts in the first three innings but lost it in the fourth, as two hits and a walk loaded the bases before the right-hander issued free passes to Tejada and Nieuwenheis. Duda led off the bottom of the sixth with his fourth home run to make it 3-1.
St. Louis left two men in scoring position in the eighth but got back-to-back one-out singles in the ninth against Mets closer Kyle Farnsworth. Daniel Descalso followed with a double to left-center to score one, but Carpenter was thrown out on a great relay home, and after a review upheld the call, Matt Holliday flied to right to end it and give Farnsworth his second save.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Molina is batting .429 during a 14-game hitting streak. ... Duda's homer was the first in eight home games for New York. ... The Mets' bullpen has allowed two runs in the last 15 2/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| St. Louis |
|
NY Mets |
|
Michael Wacha
|
Player |
Jon Niese
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
4.0 |
IP |
6.2 |
|
10 |
Strikeouts |
3 |
|
3 |
Hits |
6 |
|
4.50 |
ERA |
1.35 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| St. Louis
|
11 |
0 |
15 |
.297 |
20 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
| NY Mets
|
4 |
1 |
7 |
.138 |
19 |
14 |
3 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
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