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Cardinals Vs. Mets Final Score: St. Louis Avoids Sweep With 5-4 Win On Monday

2012-06-04T21:12:31Z

After being limited to a total of one run over the first three games of their series against the Mets, the St. Louis Cardinals finally got some decent offensive production on Monday and picked up a 5-4 win. The win ended a five-game losing streak and improved the Cards to 28-27 overall.

Allen Craig had a pivotal day at the plate for St. Louis -- in the fourth inning, he singled home the team's first run and later provided the game-winning hit, a two-run home run in the eighth that gave his team a 5-3 lead.

Kyle Lohse pitched well, giving up just one run on two hits over six innings, though that was only good enough for a no-decision.

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Cardinals Vs. Mets Lineups: Cardinals Look To Break From Slump

2012-06-04T17:23:25Z

The St. Louis Cardinals (27-27) have fallen to .500 after losing three games in a row to the New York Mets (31-23) by margins of five runs or greater. The Cards, struggling with a number of key injuries, will look to get back on track on Monday afternoon as they send out SP Kyle Lohse against SP Dillon Gee.

Rookie outfielder Adron Chambers gets his second straight start in center as the Cards rest CF Shane Robinson. Here's a look at the full linueps:

St. Louis Lineup

SS Rafael Furcal
RF Carlos Beltran
LF Matt Holliday
C Yadier Molina
1B Allen Craig
3B David Freese
2B Daniel Descalso
CF Adron Chambers
P Kyle Lohse

New York Mets

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Cardinals Vs. Mets Preview: St. Louis Hopes To Revive Offense, Avoid Sweep

2012-06-04T12:00:51Z

It's been a rough series in New York for the St. Louis Cardinals, to say the least. They were the victims of the first no-hitter in Mets history on Friday and they followed that up by being shutout again Saturday. They didn't score their first run of the series until the eighth inning Sunday. Sunday's loss was their fifth in a row, and now a team that began the year looking like one of the NL's best is sitting at .500.

Kyle Lohse (5-1, 3.36 ERA) will try to help right the ship on Monday; Dillon Gee (4-3, 4.69) will start for the Mets.

Game Date & Time: Monday, June 4,12:10 p.m. CT

TV: Fox Sports Midwest

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Cardinals Vs. Mets Final Score: St. Louis Drops Another To New York, 6-1

2012-06-04T03:18:35Z

The St. Louis Cardinals' offensive woes continued on Sunday night in a 6-1 defeat at the hands of the New York Mets. After being shutout by the Mets on Friday and Saturday, St. Louis didn't manage its first run Sunday until the eighth inning. By then, though, the Mets had already built a comfortable lead.

Jake Westbrook lasted five innings and gave up five runs on nine hits. Mets starter Jonathan Niese struck out 10 over the course of six innings of work.

The Cardinals, who have lost five in a row to drop to 27-27 overall, finish off their series in New York on Monday afternoon.

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Cardinals Vs. Mets Score Update: New York Up 3-0 In the 5th

2012-06-04T01:32:25Z

The New York Mets have a 3-0 lead on the St. Louis Cardinals in the fifth inning Sunday night, which means that the Cardinals' scoreless streak has been extended to 23 innings.

Yadier Molina, Allen Craig and Matt Holliday account for the team's three hits thus far, and as a group the Cards have left six runners on base.

The Mets, meanwhile, have eight hits. Lucas Duda got them on the board in the first with an RBI single and Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning to extend that lead to three.

Mets starter Jonathan Niese has struck out nine batters through 4-2/3 innings.

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Cardinals Vs. Mets Preview: Cardinals Look To Stay Above .500

2012-06-03T15:25:55Z

It wasn't so long ago that the St. Louis Cardinals looked like one of the top teams in baseball, but it sure does seem like it. After failing to score a run in their first two games against the New York Mets, the Cardinals find themselves not only 3.5 games behind the first place Cincinnati Reds, but also a half-game above the Pittsburgh Pirates for third place as St. Louis struggles to say above .500.

The Cardinals will be looking to get their first run in over 48 hours off of Mets starter Jonathan Niese, who is 3-2 with a 4.55 ERA on the season. But Niese has been better this season than that ERA would indicate: his expected Fielding Independent Pitching is only 3.75, and both his WHIP (1.32) and his BAA (.230) are lower than what they were in the last two seasons.

On the hill for St. Louis is Jake Westbrook, who has posted a solid 3.84 ERA on the season but who has also given up 11 earned runs in 8.2 innings over his last two starts. In one start at Citi Field last year, Westbrook gave up four hits and two earned runs in eight innings.

Game date/time: Sunday, June 3, 2012, 7:05 p.m. CT

Location: Citi Field, New York, N.Y.

TV: ESPN

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Cardinals Vs. Mets Final Score: St. Louis Scoreless Through 19 Innings, Lose 5-0

2012-06-03T02:00:40Z

The St. Louis Cardinals (27-26) are only a game above .500 after losing 5-0 to the New York Mets (30-23) on Saturday. The Cards have now lost 15 of their last 22 games, and following Saturday's shutout from SP R.A. Dickey, they have not scored since the top of the 8th inning in Wednesday's 10-8 loss to the Atlanta Braves -- a total of 19 run-less innings.

The knuckleballer Dickey dominated the battered Cardinals lineup, producing 9 strikeouts while limiting St. Louis to just 5 singles and 2 doubles. Meanwhile, the Mets lineup jumped on SP Lance Lynn early, scoring 3 runs (2 earned) in the second inning and forcing Lynn (105 pitches with 5 walks and 3 strikeouts) out of the game midway through the fifth inning.

3B David Wright (2 for 4 with with double, homer and a walk) and 2B Daniel Murphy (2 for 4 with a double) did the heavy lifting for the Mets offense to give New York their 9th win in 12 games.

Final - 6.2.2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
St. Louis Cardinals	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	2
New York Mets	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	X	5	9	0
WP: R.A. Dickey (8 - 1) LP: Lance Lynn (8 - 2)

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Puts An Asterisk Next To Johan Santana's No-Hitter

2012-06-02T18:53:27Z

The New York Mets' well-documented no-hitter drought ended last night thanks to a) a brilliant outing from left-hander Johan Santana, b) a punchless St. Louis Cardinals lineup and c) a little help from the umpires. The blown call in question happened in the top of the sixth inning when St. Louis right fielder Carlos Beltran roped a shot past the third baseman that clearly kicked up a good amount of chalk. It was ruled a foul ball, and Santana would go on to become the first Mets pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter.

Still, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wasn't about to let the occasion pass without a proper marking.

Sour grapes? Perhaps, but Beltran's shot should have counted as a hit.

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