Pete Alonso continued his stretch of hero ball Thursday night time in St. Louis. The slugger hit his third homer prior to now three video games to prepared the ground for the Mets to seize a 4-2 victory over the Cardinals.
Alonso’s two-run homer within the fourth inning gave the Amazins the one offense mandatory so as to add to the win column because of Jose Quintana’s large efficiency.
The southpaw tossed six innings permitting being charged two runs — one being a solo shot off the bat of Tyler O’Neill within the seventh. Quintana racked up 5 strikeouts whereas strolling 4.
The veteran gave Buck Showalter much-needed size towards his former workforce being brief on choices within the bullpen.
Quintana’s counterpart, Adam Wainwright, was additionally considerably efficient. The right-hander has had an abysmal season coming into the night time with an 8.78 ERA, nevertheless, he saved the Cards within the ballgame. The 41-year-old allowed three runs over six innings of labor with simply two strikeouts. Thursday was the second outing of Wainwright’s final eight begins that he allowed three runs or much less.
Drew Smith got here in aid of Quintana tossing a scoreless body earlier than handing it off to Grant Hartwig for the eighth.
Tim Locastro added a much-needed insurance coverage run within the ninth with a solo homer earlier than Showalter known as on Trevor Gott to safe the victory within the first of a four-game set.
Joey Lucchesi will take the ball Friday night time towards the Cards’ Zack Thompson.
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