Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The New York Mets defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in a long extra inning affair



The New York Mets defeated or should I say outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 2-1 in 14 innings.  Matt Harvey made the start and pitched great, the bullpen gave up the lead in the ninth.  The offense didn't do too much.  Curtis Granderson had a couple of hits and everyone else had none or one. 

Harvey pitched eight innings giving up no runs on six hits with a walk and nine strikeouts.  Jeurys Familia pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout, Hansel Robles pitched a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts and Erik Goeddel pitched 2/3 of an inning walking two guys.  Alex Torres pitched 1 1/3 innings striking out four and Carlos Torres earned his second win of the season pitching two innings and giving up a hit with two strikeouts. 

John Lackey pitched seven innings giving up three hits and a run with no walks and six strikeouts.  Randy Choate pitched to one batter and struck him out, Mitch Harris pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and Kevin Siegrist pitched  an inning giving up a hit and a walk with three strikeouts.  Matt Belisle pitched two innings giving up a hit and striking out three, Seth Maness pitched two innings giving up two hits and striking out one and Sam Tuivailala pitched giving up a run and two walks and took his first loss of the season.  Trevor Rosenthal pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a walk. 

Granderson had two hits, Eric Campbell had a hit and drew a walk and Lucas Duda had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks.  Michael Cuddyer had a hit, Daniel Murphy had a hit and drew a walk and Wilmer Flores had a hit.  John Mayberry Jr. had a hit and an RBI, Kevin Plawecki had a hit and Juan Lagares had a hit.  Granderson hit two doubles and the Mets were 2-6 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Campbell committed an error and Flores was picked off. 

Kolten Wong had a hit, Matt Holliday had a hit and Jhonny Peralta had a hit and drew two walks.  Matt Adams had two hits, Yadier Molina had three hits and drew a walk and Jason Heyward had a hit and an RBI.  Peralta, Holliday and Heyward each hit a double and the Cardinals were 0-11 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base. 

In the fourth Duda hit an RBI single to make it 1-0 Mets.  In the ninth Heyward hit a sac fly to tie the game at one.  The Mets won the game in the 14th on a Mayberry Jr. RBI walk-off single for the 2-1 win.  The two teams will play game two on Tuesday night. 

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