New York Mets drop rubber game to the St. Louis Cardinals

The New York Mets were defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday afternoon.  The game took place at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri and the final score was 6-4.  Noah Syndergaard started for the Mets and he didn’t pitch very good.  Pete Alonso and Robinson Cano each led the team with two hits each. 

Syndergaard pitched five innings giving up eight hits and six runs with four being earned.  He walked two and struck out five and lost his second game of the season.  Robert Gsellman pitched three perfect innings with a strikeout. 

Dakota Hudson pitched five innings giving up five hits and three runs with two walks and five strikeouts.  Hudson won his first game of the season.  John Brebbia pitched 2/3 of an inning with two strikeouts, Andrew Miller pitched an inning giving up a hit and a run with a walk and two strikeouts and John Gant pitched 1 1/3 innings with a strikeout.  Jordan Hicks pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out two and recorded his fifth save of the season. 

Alonso had two hits, an RBI and drew a walk, Cano had two hits and an RBI and Michael Conforto had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Amed Rosario had a hit, Syndergaard had a hit and an RBI and Dom Smith drew a walk.  Conforto, Alonso, Cano and Syndergaard each hit a homerun and the Mets were 0-4 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Rosario committed two errors. 

Paul Goldschmidt had two hits and two RBI, Paul DeJong had a hit and Marcell Ozuna had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk.  Jose Martinez had a hit and drew a walk, Jose Molina had a hit and an RBI, Dexter Fowler had a hit and an RBI and Kolten Wong had a hit and an RBI.  Ozuna and Fowler each hit a double.  The Cardinals were 3-11 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base and Hudson committed an error. 

In the first Alonso hit a solo homerun to give the Mets a 1-0 lead.  In the second Wong hit an RBI single to tie the game at one.  Goldschmidt hit a two-run single to push the lead to 3-1.  In the third Molina hit an RBI ground out and Fowler hit an RBI double and the lead was 5-1.  In the fourth Syndergaard hit a solo homerun to cut the lead to 5-2.  In the bottom of the fourth Ozuna hit an RBI double and the lead was 6-2.  Cano hit a solo homerun in the fifth and Conforto hit a solo homerun in the seventh to cut the lead to 6-4.  That would be the final score of the game. 

The Mets lost two out of three in the series and will head home to take on the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night.  It will be the first of a three-game series.