New York Mets win a close one at St. Louis

The New York Mets defeated the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.  The game took place at Busch Stadium in St. Louis Missouri and the final score was 6-5.  Jacob deGrom started for the Mets and he pitched ok.  Jay Bruce had three hits and Jose Reyes had two to lead the offense. 

deGrom won his ninth game of the season pitching seven innings and giving up eight hits and four runs with five strikeouts.  Jerry Blevins pitched giving up a hit and a run without recording an out, Paul Sewald pitched an inning and gave up a hit and Addison Reed pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout and picked up his 15^th save of the season. 

Carlos Martinez pitched five innings giving up seven hits and five runs with three walks and four strikeouts and he lost his eighth game of the season.  John Brebbia pitched 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and an unearned run with two strikeouts, Tyler Lyons pitched to two batters and retired them both and had a strikeout and Sam Tuivailala pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout.  Trevor Rosenthal pitched a perfect inning with a couple of strikeouts. 

Curtis Granderson had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk, Asdrubal Cabrera drew a walk and Yoenis Cespedes had a hit.  Bruce had three hits and an RBI, T.J. Rivera had a hit and two RBI and Lucas Duda drew a walk.  Jose Reyes had two hits and drew a walk, Travis d’Arnaud had a hit and an RBI and Bruce, Reyes, Granderson and T.J. Rivera each hit a double and Reyes and Bruce each hit a homerun.  The Mets were 3-11 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base. 

Matt Carpenter had two hits, Stephen Piscotty had a hit and Dexter Fowler had a hit and an RBI.  Jed Gyorko had two hits and two RBI, Randal Grichuk had a hit and an RBI and Paul DeJong had three hits and an RBI.  DeJong hit a double and Grichuk, DeJong, Folwer and Gyorko each hit a homerun.  The Cardinals were 0-3 with runners in scoring position and left three men on base.  Gyorko and Carpenter each had an outfield assist.  Piscotty also had an outfield assist. 

In the first T. Rivera was hit by a pitch to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the second Reyes hit a solo homerun extending the Mets lead to 2-0.  In the third Grichuk hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 2-1.  DeJong hit a solo homerun and the game was tied at two.  In the fourth d’Arnaud hit an RBI single to give the Mets a 3-2 lead, Granderson hit an RBI double and the lead was pushed to 4-2 Mets.  In the fourth Fowler hit a solo homerun, Gyorko hit a solo homerun and the game was tied at four.  In the fifth Bruce hit a solo homerun giving the Mets a 5-4 lead.  In the seventh T. Rivera hit an RBI double to extend the lead to 6-4.  Gyorko hit a sac fly in the eighth to cut the lead to 6-5 and that would be the final score.