Pete Alonso tormented St. Louis all through the primary three days of the Mets’ four-game sequence there. On Sunday, it was the Cardinals’ celebrity first baseman’s flip.
Reigning NL MVP Paul Goldschmidt crushed a go-ahead house run and picked up three RBI within the Cardinals’ 7-3 victory, serving to St. Louis keep away from a sweep whereas snapping the Mets’ four-game win streak.
Goldschmidt drove in St. Louis’ first three runs, delivering a third-inning RBI single earlier than his two-run homer within the fifth inning that ended Mets starter Carlos Carrasco’s newest uneven outing. Goldschmidt, who went 3-for-5, additionally scored the Cardinals’ fourth run of the sport throughout a four-run seventh inning.
Alonso continued to crush the Cardinals, slugging his third house run of the sequence. His 423-foot solo shot landed in Busch Stadium’s third deck and gave the Mets a short-lived 2-1 lead that Goldschmidt erased together with his blast.
Alonso’s house run got here towards Cardinals starter Dakota Hudson, a Mississippi State alum whom he confronted within the SEC with Florida and within the collegiate Cape Cod League. Alonso now has 39 house runs, placing him one away from his third 40-homer season.
It was an eventful sequence for Alonso, who hit a 437-foot house run Thursday and a 466-foot shot Saturday. He additionally made headlines Friday when he hurled the baseball Cardinals rookie Masyn Winn struck for his first MLB hit into the stands. Alonso later described tossing the souvenir as a “huge mistake” and apologized to the 21-year-old Winn with a pricey bottle of Don Julio 1942 tequila and a signed bat. Cardinals safety in the end retrieved the ball for Winn.
Carrasco surrendered 9 hits and three runs Sunday and fell to 3-7. The 36-year-old has a 6.42 ERA this season.
The Mets had been robbed of some early offense when Brooklyn native Richie Palacios made a leaping catch on the middle subject wall on a DJ Stewart drive within the second inning.
The loss dropped the underachieving Mets to 58-67. Their win streak happened three weeks after the crew unloaded aces Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer, relievers David Robertson and Dominic Leone, and outfielders Tommy Pham and Mark Canha earlier than the commerce deadline. The Mets, whose $360 million payroll is the biggest in MLB historical past, misplaced their first six video games after the deadline.
The Mets entered Sunday six video games out of the third and closing National League wild card spot and with a 2.6% probability of constructing the playoffs, based on FanGraphs.
Next up for the Mets is a visit to Atlanta, the place they’ll face an MLB-best Braves crew that took three of 4 from them at Citi Field final weekend. David Peterson (3-7, 5.45 ERA) is scheduled to pitch Monday towards rookie Allan Winans (1-0, 1.59 ERA), whom the Mets initially drafted in 2018.
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