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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
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

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
Hitting
St. Louis   NY Mets
Matt Carpenter Player Lucas Duda
4 Hits 1
0 RBI 1
0 HR 1
5 TB 4
.800 Avg .333
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