The Mets (24-18) defeated the St. Louis Cardinals (27-14) by a score of 5-0, splitting the four game set.
Jacob deGrom had one of the best outings of his young career, which saw him pitching eight innings of one-hit ball, striking out eleven batters, and retiring the last twenty-three Cardinals to face him.
His opposition, Jaime Garcia, pitched a solid game as well, and kept the Cardinals in the game going seven innings, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out three.
Garcia walked the first batter to face him in each of the first three innings, but it wasn’t until the fourth that the Mets got into both the run and hit column.
With the bases loaded and one out, John Mayberry singled to drive in the run, but the Mets failed to really break the game open as Eric Campbell grounded into a double play the next at-bat to end the inning.
Lucas Duda continued his hot-hitting against lefties today, as he counted for four of the Mets five runs. In the bottom of the sixth, Duda launched a solo shot off of Garcia to right center field, and did it again in the bottom of the eighth against Randy Choate, almost to the exact same spot. It was the only pitch Choate would throw, and it was a big blow as that was a three-run shot.
Against my personal wishes, Jacob deGrom was pinched-hit for in the eighth and was relieved in the ninth by Jeurys Familia, who despite letting up a two-out single to Kolten Wong, sealed the win for the Mets.
Despite the Cardinals tagging the Mets for nineteen runs in the past two ballgames, and the Mets only putting up a meager nine runs in the series, the Amazin’s will take the split and make their way to Pittsburgh to face the Bucco’s this weekend.
Game ball:
Jacob deGrom gets the game ball today for obvious reasons, as he was in top form today, looking exactly how he did in his Rookie of the Year campaign in 2014.
On deck:
Noah “Thor” Syndergaard (1-1; 3.18 ERA) takes on Gerrit Cole (5-2; 2.40 ERA) for the start of a three-game weekend series against the Pirates tomorrow night at PNC Park. First pitch is at 7:10 PM.
