NY Mets rally past Cardinals
Dominic Smith hits decisive two- run single
Dominic Smith hit the decisive two- run single as the visiting New York Mets rallied past the St Louis Cardinals 5- 2 Monday.
The Mets trailed the Cardinals 2- 0 in the ninth but stormed back with a fiverun outburst that featured Smith’s hit and was capped by Brandon Nimmo’s two- run homer.
Mets starter Max Scherzer threw seven shutout innings. He allowed two hits and a walk and struck out 10 while remaining unbeaten in his past 23 starts.
This was the 106th time Scherzer struck out 10 or more batters, which ranks fifth all time.
Trevor May ( 1- 0) relieved Scherzer and earned the victory despite allowing two runs.
Edwin Diaz closed out the Cardinals to earn his second save.
Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas matched Scherzer with seven scoreless innings. He held the Mets to four hits and a walk while striking out five.
Mikolas has allowed just one run in 18 2/ 3 innings in his past three starts.
Genesis Cabrera retired the Mets in order in the eighth inning, but the Mets rallied against Giovanny Gallegos ( 0- 1) and T. J. McFarland in the ninth.
Scherzer and Mikolas worked out of periodic trouble through the first seven innings.
Eduardo Escobar hit a one- out single in the second inning and Mikolas hit
Mark Canha with a pitch with two outs. But Jeff McNeil struck out to strand them.
In third inning when Tommy Edman drew a two- out walk and Paul Goldschmidt hit a single, O’Neill struck out to end the threat.
The Mets left a runner on second base in the fourth when Robinson Cano hit an inning- ending popout.
McNeil hit a one- out double in the fifth inning, but Tomas Nido struck out and Nimmo flied out.
Yadier Molina greeted May with a leadoff single in the eighth. Harrison Bader followed with a single and Edman advanced the runners with a chopper.
Goldschmidt walked to load the bases and O’Neill lined a two- run single hit to put the Cardinals up 2- 0.
In the ninth, Escobar hit a one- out single and scored on Canha’s infield single and Nolan Arenado’s throwing error.
McNeil hit a double, Smith drove in two runs with an infield single, and McFarland allowed Nimmo’s two- run homer.
Walker Buehler struck out 10 while pitching the first complete game in the major leagues this season as Los Angeles earned a shutout victory over Arizona in Phoenix.
Buehler ( 2- 1) gave up just three hits and no walks en route to his first career shutout. Trea Turner hit a two- run double nine pitches into the game, Max Muncy added an RBI double and Will Smith launched a home run for the Dodgers, who are 11- 2 since the end of the season’s first series.
Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly ( 1- 1) gave up three runs on seven hits over six innings with two walks and four strikeouts. Daulton Varsho and Christian Walker had the only other hits off Buehler, also singles.
Luis Gonzalez hit his first major league home run with one aboard in the top of the ninth inning to give San Francisco a victory in Milwaukee.
Wilmer Flores drew a two- out walk off Jake Cousins ( 2- 1), who came on to start the ninth. Gonzalez then sent a 2- 2 pitch over the wall in right.
Willy Adames brought the Brewers even at 2 in the eighth with his second homer of the season, a two- out solo shot to left- center off Jake McGee ( 1- 1).
Camilo Doval, the eighth Giants pitcher used in a bullpen game, tossed a perfect ninth for his
fourth save.