New York Mets lose to the St. Louis Cardinals in 13 innings

The New York Mets were defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday afternoon.  The game took place at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri and the final score was 4-3 in 13 innings.  Noah Syndergaard started for the Mets and he pitched well.  Yoenis Cespedes and Jay Bruce each had two hits to lead the offense. 

Syndergaard pitched 7 1/3 innings giving up six hits and two runs with one of them being earned.  He walked none and struck out seven.  Robert Gsellman pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up a hit, Seth Lugo pitched an inning with a walk and Jeurys Familia pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout.  AJ Ramos pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts and Paul Sewald lost his first game of the season pitching 1 1/3 innings giving up two hits and a run with a walk and a strikeout.   

Carlos Martinez pitched six innings giving up four hits and a run with three strikeouts, Dominic Leone pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run with a strikeout and Bud Norris pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts.  Greg Holland pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one, Luke Gregerson pitched 2/3 of an inning giving up two hits and a run with two walks and Matt Bowman pitched 1/3 of an inning and retired the only batter that he faced.  John Gant pitched three perfect innings with a strikeout and he won his first game of the season. 

Brandon Nimmo had a hit, Cespedes had two hits and two RBI and Bruce had two hits.  Todd Frazier had a hit, Adrian Gonzalez had a hit and drew a walk and Michael Conforto had a hit.  Jose Lobaton had an RBI and drew a walk.  Amed Rosario had a hit, Cespedes hit a double and the Mets were 0-7 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base.  Rosario committed an error. 

Matt Carpenter had a hit, Tommy Pham had four hits and an RBI and Jose Martinez had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Marcell Ozuna had two hits and an RBI, Dexter Fowler had a hit and an RBI and Paul DeJong had two hits and drew a walk.  Pham, DeJong and Martinez each hit a double and the Cardinals were 3-9 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base.  Pham was caught stealing and DeJong committed an error. 

In the first Cespedes hit an RBI double to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the seventh Cespedes hit a sac fly to push the Mets lead to 2-0.  In the bottom of the seventh Ozuna hit an RBI single to cut the lead to 2-1.  In the eighth Pham hit an RBI single to tie the game at two.  In the tenth Lobaton drew an RBI walk to give the Mets a 3-2 lead and in the bottom of the tenth Martinez hit an RBI double to tie the game at three.  In the 13^th Folwer hit an RBI walk-off single to give the Cardinals a 4-3 lead.