Mets vs. Cardinals
[FLUSHING, NY] April 22—After the
Cardinals (11-9) were shut out by the Mets (10-10) on Monday night, they got
their revenge last night when they returned the favor, winning 3-0.
Wainwright (4-1), who pitched for
seven innings, left the game at the bottom of the seventh with a hyper-extended
knee. He injured himself trying to get to first base to cover the bag on a
routine play.
If you look at past statistics, it seems
like Wainwright was never able to put up good numbers against the Mets but last
night, he was able to break his streak. Wainwright’s seven shut out innings
last night extends his scoreless-innings streak to 25.
Wainwright only allowed four hits
and didn’t walk any. The win over the Mets marked Wainwright’s third career win
over Dillon Gee (1-1). Gee had six hits and two walks.
The two pitchers put up zeroes for
the first three innings, but in the fourth, the Cardinals were able to get on
the board. Centerfielder Jon Jay hit a two-run single scoring one, which
catapulted the Cardinals to their
3-0 win over the Mets.
“I think Dillon pitched very well;
I thought Germen came in and did a nice job; we just couldn’t stop the
offense,” said Mets’ manager Terry Collins.
Each team had three pitchers take
turns at the mound last night. For the Cardinals, Wainwright carried St. Louis
to the late innings, then Kevin Siegrist and Trevor Rosenthal stepped up to
close it out. For the Mets Gee
started the game and went six innings then Gonzalez Germen, and Jose Valverde pitched
the final innings. Gee gave up two runs, while Valverde gave up one.
“You know, I don’t know…After the
first walk, (Valverde) had some real good pitches. He pitched to Holliday, his
pitch was just to the outside of the plate. I thought he threw the ball well.
He’s trying to use his split more than he has recently and I think that’ll make
a difference. You know, I told him ‘you gotta do something else.’”
While on the topic of left fielder
Matt Holliday, the outfielder robbed Mets’ Chris Young from a then game-tying
home run in the fifth inning. Holliday leaped and reached over the fence to
pull the back into the park, taking away the only momentum the Mets’ mustered.
“It was just some-what of a bad
inning; we couldn’t score. We need to get more hits; we had nine last night and
that was good enough,” said Collins. The Mets had four 1-2-3 innings.
“We got to get some guys on and as
I said last night, singles count. We got to get some guys in scoring positions
and get base hits, score runs. Today, we didn’t get anybody; we got to have
some guys get to second base but we didn’t come through. We just got to keep
swinging.”
The Cardinals’ snapped the Mets’
pitchers impressive scoreless streak at 20 innings. Gee had 10 of those innings
to himself.
The final scorecard for the
Cardinals was 3 runs, 10 hits, and no errors. The Mets ended the game with no
runs, 4 hits, and 1 error.
The Mets return to action at 7:10
P.M. tonight at Citi Field for the Cardinals, the expected starters are E.
Young, Granderson, Wright, Murphy, C. Young, Duda, d’Arnaud, Quintanilla, and
Niese.
As soon as I get a break in my work, you'll all be getting a fictional story, don't you worry.
For right now, if any of you have the ends of your semesters approaching, I wish you all the best of luck!
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