Friday, March 30, 2018

The New York Mets smash the St. Louis Cardinals to win on Opening Day


The New York Mets defeated the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday afternoon.  The game took place at Citi Field in Flushing, New York and the final score was 9-4.  Noah Syndergaard started for the Mets and he pitched well.  Yoenis Cespedes led the offense with two hits and three RBI. 

Syndergaard pitched six innings giving up six hits and four runs with ten strikeouts.  He picked up the win, his first of the year.  Robert Gsellman pitched a perfect inning with three strikeouts, Anthony Swarzak pitched a perfect inning with a strikeout and Jeurys Familia pitched an inning giving up a walk and he struck out one. 

Carlos Martinez took the loss pitching 4 1/3 innings giving up four hits and five runs with four of them being earned.  He walked six and struck out five.  Matt Bowman pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up three hits and three runs with a walk, Brett Cecil pitched 1/3 of an inning giving up a hit and Mike Mayers pitched an inning giving up two hits and he struck out one.  Jordan Hicks pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one and Sam Tuivailala pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with two walks and a strikeout. 

Brandon Nimmo had two hits and drew a walk, Cespedes had two hits and three RBI and Jay Bruce had a hit, an RBI and drew two walks.  Asdrubal Cabrera drew a walk, Todd Frazier had a hit and drew a walk and Adrian Gonzalez had two hits, an RBI and drew two walks.  Kevin Plawecki had two hits, an RBI and drew two walks, Amed Rosario had two hits and two RBI and Plawecki and Gonzalez each hit a double.  The Mets were 5-15 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Bruce had a stolen base. 

Matt Carpenter had a hit, Jose Martinez had three hits and two RBI and Jose Molina had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk.  Paul DeJong had a hit, Carpenter hit a double and Molina and Martinez each hit a homerun.  The Cardinals were 1-4 with runners in scoring position and left three men on base.  Martinez committed an error. 
In the first Cabrera reached on an error to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the second Molina hit a two-run

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