New York Mets get doubled up by the St. Louis Cardinals

The New York Mets were defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 6-3.  Zach Wheeler started for the Mets and he pitched ok.  Jay Bruce, Lucas Duda and Jose Reyes each had two hits to lead the offense. 

Wheeler pitched 5 1/3 innings giving up seven hits and four runs with four walks and five strikeouts and lost his seventh game of the season.  Josh Edgin pitched giving up a run and a walk without recording an out, Hansel Robles pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit and a run with a strikeout and Paul Sewald pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.  Jerry Blevins pitched an inning with a strikeout and Erik Goeddel pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out two. 

Adam Wainwright pitched 5 2/3 innings giving up six hits and three runs with two of them being earned.  He walked two and struck out three and won his 11^th game of the season.  Tyler Lyons pitched to one batter and retired him, Matt Bowman pitched an inning giving up a hit and Kevin Siegrist pitched an inning giving up a walk and struck out three.  Brett Cecil pitched an inning giving up a hit and he saved his first game of the season. 

Michael Conforto had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Asdrubal Cabrera had a hit and Bruce had two hits.  Duda had two hits and an RBI, Reyes had two hits and Travis d’Arnaud drew a walk.  Curtis Granderson drew a walk, Duda hit a double and Reyes hit two doubles.  Conforto and Duda each hit a homerun and the Mets were 0-11 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base. 

Matt Carpenter had a hit and drew two walks, Tommy Pham had two hits, three RBI and drew two walks and Dexter Fowler had a hit and drew a walk.  Jedd Gyorko had a hit, Yadier Molina had two hits and Paul DeJong had a hit and two RBI.  Kolten Wong had a hit, Wainwright had a hit and an RBI and Wainwright hit a double.  DeJong and Pham each hit a homerun and the Cardinals were 1-5 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Sierra committed two errors and Fowler committed an error. 

In the fifth Conforto hit a solo homerun to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the sixth DeJong hit a two-run homerun to give the Cardinals the 2-1 lead.  Wainwright hit an RBI double and the lead was pushed to 3-1.  Pham hit a three-run homerun and the lead was extended to 6-1.  In the bottom of the sixth Duda hit a solo homerun and Reyes hit an RBI double to cut the lead to 6-3 which would be the final score.