Mets miss out on sweep of Cards
a-walked for Matz in the 4th; b-flied out for Weaver in the 6th; c-lined out for Sewald in the 6th; d-struck out for Bowman in the 8th; e-struck out for Ramos in the 9th.
St. Louis 10, New York 8; Ozuna (1), Bruce (1); DeJong (1), off Matz, Molina (2), off Matz, DeJong (2), off Rhame; Ozuna 2 (2), Molina (3), DeJong 2 (2), Rosario (3); Pham (1), Gyorko (1); Matz;
St. Louis 5 (Fowler, Carpenter 2, Martinez 2), New York 3 (Frazier, Flores, Rosario); St. Louis 2 for 9, New York 1 for 4;
Garcia; Molina, Gyorko; New York 2 (Frazier, Cabrera, Flores), (Cabrera, Rosario, Flores);
Home, CB Bucknor, First, Chris Conroy, Second, Fieldin Culbreth, Third, Brian O’Nora; 3:15; 22,486 (41,922).
LOB: 5 7 8 BIBBSO 011 110 010 010 000 000 S: in scoring position: up: RBIs: T:
Weaver, W, 1-0 Bowman, H, 1 Hicks Leone
Matz, L, 0-1 Sewald Rhame Blevins Ramos
HR: GIDP: A:
5 2 1 1
4 2 1 2⁄3 1⁄3 1
5 1 0 1
4 3 2 0 0
5 9 R H
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1
1 0 0 0
3 1 1 0 0
H BI BB SO
0 2 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
7 — — SB: Runners left RISP: Runners moved DP: Umpires: Inherited runners-scored: HBP: WP:
Sewald (Martinez);
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1
3 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 2B:
3 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
8 5 1 Avg
.000 .300 .182
—
— .231 .455 .333 .364 .250 .000 .000
— .000 .000
Avg
.308 .364 .167 .200 .167 .333 .556
— .429
— .000
—
—
— .000 .273
90 70
92 1.80 2311.57 9 0.00 14 0.00
3 3 4 89 6.75 1 1 2 55 4.50 1 1 1 30 5.40 0 2 0 15 0.00 0 0 1 19 0.00 Blevins 1-0;
Weaver. NEW YORK » Paul DeJong had the first multihomer game of his big league career, Luke Weaver held the Mets to one run in five innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat New York 5-1 on Sunday to avoid an opening three-game sweep.
DeJong sent a fastball off the facing of the left-field second deck in the second inning, making him 3 for 3 with a pair of homers in his career against Steven Matz (0-1). DeJong hit his second solo homer in the eighth against Jacob Rhame.
DeJong hit .285 with 25 home runs and 65 RBIs as a rookie last year, earning a $26 million, six-year contract.
Marcell Ozuna broke out of an 0-for-9 start with three hits, including an RBI double in the third and a run-scoring single in the fifth. Yadier Molina hit a leadoff homer in the fourth for the Cardinals, outscored 15-6 in the first two games.
Weaver (1-0) last summer became the first Cardinals rookie to win seven straight starts since Ted Wilks in 1944. A rare starting pitcher with a singledigit uniform number (7), he struggled through a 27-pitch first inning in his first outing against the Mets and gave up Amed Rosario’s tying single in the second. The 24-yearold right-hander settled in and wound up allowing five hits, four of them singles.
After solid starts by Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom, Matz tried to put behind an injury-decimated sophomore season in which the lefty slumped to a 2-7 record. He struggled with his control and was up to 51 pitches after two innings and 73 after three. He lasted five innings, giving up three runs and four hits.
New York has not opened 3-0 since 2012. The Mets kept up their terrible trend of last year, when they were 16-36 in series finales.