New York Mets defeat the St. Louis Cardinals

The New York Mets defeated the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 7-3.  Jacob deGrom started for the Mets and he pitched well.  Asdrubal Cabrera had three hits to lead the offense. 

deGrom pitched 6 2/3 innings giving up seven hits and a run with a walk and three strikeouts.  deGrom won his 11^th game of the season.  Paul Sewald pitched an inning giving up two runs and two walks with two strikeouts, Jerry Blevins pitched giving up two hits and a walk without recording an out and Addison Reed pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up a hit and struck out two and saved his 16^th game of the season. 

Mike Leake started for the Cardinals and pitched two innings giving up ten hits and seven runs with four of them being earned.  He walked one and didn’t strike out a batter.  John Brebbia pitched three innings giving up a hit and he struck out three, Kevin Siegrist pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two and Sam Tuivailala pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout.  Seung Hwan Oh pitched an inning giving up a hit. 

Michael Conforto had a hit, Cabrera had three hits and Jay Bruce had a hit and an RBI.  Yoenis Cespedes had two hits and two RBI, Lucas Duda had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and Wilmer Flores had a hit and an RBI.  Jose Reyes had two hits and two RBI, Travis d’Arnaud had two hits and Duda, Cespedes and d’Arnaud each hit a double.  The Mets were 6-11 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. 

Luke Voit had a hit and an RBI, Tommy Pham had a hit and Dexter Fowler drew a walk.  Jose Martinez drew a walk, Jedd Gyorko had a hit and Yadier Molina had a hit.  Eric Fryer drew a walk, Kolten Wong had two hits and Magneuris Sierra had three hits and two RBI.  Leake had a hit, Adam Wainwright drew a walk and Voit hit a double.  The Cardinals were 2-9 with runners in scoring position an dleft 11 men on base.  Gyorko committed an error. 

In the first Cespedes hit an RBI single, Duda hit an RBI double and Flores hit an RBI single to make it 3-0.  In the second Bruce hit an RBI single to extend the lead to 4-0.  Cespedes hit an RBI double and the lead was pushed to 5-0.  Reyes hit a two-run single to make it 7-0.  In the seventh Voit hit an RBI double to cut the lead to 7-1.  In the eighth Sierra hit a two-run single to cut the lead to 7-3 but that was the final score.