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Cardinals Vs. Mets: St. Louis Salvages Final Game Of Series With 5-4 Victory
St. Louis rebounded from a bad weekend to defeat the Mets on Monday.
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Cardinals Vs. Mets Final Score: St. Louis Avoids Sweep With 5-4 Win On Monday
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.
Related: A Look at the First One-Third of the St. Louis Cardinals Season
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
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
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- LF Kirk Nieuwenhuis
- CF Andres Torres
- 3B David Wright
- RF Lucas Duda
- 2B Daniel Murphy
- 1B Ike Davis
- SS Omar Quintanilla
- C Mike Nickeas
- P Dillon Gee
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Cardinals Vs. Mets Preview: St. Louis Hopes To Revive Offense, Avoid Sweep
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.
Related: What If Jaime Garcia Isn't Better On Tuesday?
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
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.
Related: Game 54: St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets, Jun 3, 2012 7:05 PM CDT
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
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.
Related: Game 54: St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets, Jun 3, 2012 7:05 PM CDT
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
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
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 |
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| 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
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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Cardinals Vs. Mets Lineups: Lance Lynn Leads St. Louis After No-Hitter
The St. Louis Cardinals fell victim to the first no-hitter in New York Mets franchise history a day ago when Johan Santana scored a controversial no-no Friday night. The two teams meet again today at Citi Field, with emerging ace Lance Lynn taking the mound for St. Louis. R.A. Dickey has the tough task of following Santana's historic performance for New York.
Here's the Cardinals' lineup:
1. SS Rafael Furcal
2. 2B Daniel Descalso
3. LF Matt Holliday
4. RF Carlos Beltran
5. 3B David Freese
6. C Yadier Molina
7. 1B Matt Adams
8. CF Shane Robinson
9. P Lance Lynn
Here's a look at the Mets' lineup:
1. LF Kirk Nieuwenhuis
2. CF Andres Torres
3. 3B David Wright
4. RF Lucas Duda
5. 2B David Murphy
6. 1B Ike Davis
7. SS Omar Quintalnilla
8. C Josh Thole
9. RHP R.A. Dickey
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Johan Santana Throws 134 Pitches In No-Hitter; Will The Mets Hear Echoes Of Bud Smith?
134 pitches. Friday's Johan Santana no-hitter struck me, as a St. Louis Cardinals fan, for more than one reason. It was proof this Cardinals team continues to struggle, sure, and a bitter pill to swallow against the New York Mets, erstwhile pond scum, but it was also exactly as many pitches as star-crossed rookie Bud Smith threw in his own 2001 no-hitter, still the last one in Cardinals history.
That one, depending on how much weight you put on his brilliant night in San Diego, either cost a diminutive left-hander his career or probably wasn't what the doctor ordered for an early-twentysomething rookie with slow-burning shoulder problems. What will Johan Santana, a veteran returning from shoulder problems, take from the experience?
It's a lot of pitches. Santana's previous season high was 108, and he'd only gone over 100 three times in his first 10 starts. In June 2010 he threw 123 pitches, in the course of throwing seven scoreless innings at Petco Park, but his career high prior to this no-hitter was 125, back in 2007.
It's hard to tell a guy like Santana, who's been through so much on the way back to the big leagues, to come out after eight hitless innings, so I understand why he finished it off-I just hope the Mets treat him gingerly as long as they can.
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Johan Santana No-Hitter: St. Louis Cardinals Victims Of New York Mets’ First No-Hitter
It couldn't have happened to a more appropriate team, I guess-the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets' most heated rivals two decades ago, were the victim Friday of Johan Santana's no-hitter, the first in franchise history. It was a major surprise from the Mets ace, who's struggled with injury for years now and came back in 2012 a much different pitcher than the one who arrived in New York after the 2007 season.
The Cardinals, for their part, managed five walks in the defeat-Yadier Molina and Matt Adams are the MVPs-by-default, going just 0-2 with theirs. Santana, having done what Tom Seaver, Doc Gooden, and Pedro Martinez before him couldn't, improves to 3-2 in what could be a very successful comeback with an ERA of 2.38.
He might not have the mid-90s fastball he flashed as a Rule 5 diamond-in-the-rough on the Minnesota Twins, but judging from Friday night the two-time AL Cy Young Award-winner must have learned something about playing the crafty lefty in his long layoff with shoulder trouble.
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Cardinals Vs. Mets Preview: Don't Expect A No-Hitter Encore
The New York Mets got their first no-hitter on Friday night after waiting 8,020 games, and Johan Santana was the hero, but things are likely to go back to normal on Saturday afternoon. Well, at least as normal as MLB baseball allows. The St. Louis Cardinals will be looking for revenge after coming out on the wrong end of history, and they will turn to de-facto staff ace Lance Lynn (8-1, 2.54 ERA). Meanwhile, the Mets will respond with knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (7-1, 3.06 ERA). So if you consider a matchup between a red-hot knuckleball pitcher and perhaps the most surprising pitcher of the year a return to normalcy, then everything is indeed back to normal.
Here is the game time and TV broadcast information for Saturday afternoon:
Game time: Saturday, June 2, 3:10 p.m. CT
Location: Citi Field, New York, NY
TV: Fox Sports Midwest
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Cardinals Vs. Mets: Johan Santana No-Hitter Highlights
Johan Santana tossed the first no-hitter in New York Mets franchise history on Friday night, and even though the St. Louis Cardinals came out on the losing end it is still an accomplishment worth revisiting. Sure, Cardinals fans could easily focus on the call by third base umpire Adrian Johnson that miscast Carlos Beltran's line drive as a foul ball, despite replay evidence that it hit the chalk in fair territory. But Santana had a wonderful night, and for the first time in 8,020 franchise games the Mets have a no-hitter of their own. Here is the box score to prove it.
Now for a few of the highlights for his performance. The first is the amazing catch by Mike Baxter on a deep line drive by Yadier Molina to save the no-hitter in the seventh inning:
The second highlight is Santana's final pitch and out of the night, where he put away David Freese with a changeup to seal his historic night:
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Cardinals Vs. Mets Final Score: Johan Santana Throws Mets' First Ever No-Hitter
The New York Mets, who were famously beat by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2006 NLCS, have their place in Cardinals lore, and now St. Louis has the same in Mets history. On Friday night, Mets starting pitcher Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in franchise history in an 8-0 victory. It wasn't easy for Santana, who walked five Cardinals hitters and threw 134 pitches coming off of shoulder surgery, but his reaction to the final out showed that he thought it was more than worth it.
Santana's ninth went smoother than most of the previous innings, as Santana retired the meat of the Cardinals' lineup in order. Matt Holliday started the inning by lining softly to centerfield, which was followed up by Allen Craig flying out to left fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis. Santana then started what would be the final out by falling behind David Freese 3-0, but he fought back and eventually struck Freese out on a patented change up.
Looking at the big picture, the slumping Cardinals fell to 27-25 on the season with the loss.
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Cardinals Vs. Mets: Santana Three Outs Away From No-Hitter
New York Mets starting pitcher Johan Satana is now three outs away from throwing the franchise's first no-hitter. Santana made it through the eighth inning clean, although he did issue his fifth walk of the game. The inning started with second basemen Tyler Greene popping out to shallow left field, Santana then struck out pinch hitter Shane Robinson looking for the second out of the inning. After a walk to Rafael Furcal, Santana got ex-Met Carlos Beltran to line out to second base.
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Cardinals Vs. Mets: Johan Santana Working On No-Hitter
No New York Mets pitcher has ever thrown a no-hitter, but on Friday night vs. the St. Louis Cardinals, starter Johan Santana is two outs away from making history. Santana has blanked the Cardinals through seven innings, striking out six but also allowing four walks. The Mets' hitting, meanwhile, has helped them get out to a 5-0 lead, thanks primarily to Lucas Duda, who took Adam Wainwright deep in the sixth inning for a three-run homer.
In the top of the eighth, Santana will face second basemen Tyler Greene, a pinch hitter for reliever Sam Freeman and shortstop Rafael Furcal. Neither Greene nor Furcal have been on base tonight. If Santana was able to complete the no-hitter, it would be their first in over 8,000 games.
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Cardinals Vs. Mets Preview: Adam Wainwright Looks For Third Straight Win
The St. Louis Cardinals open a three-game series with the New York Mets on Friday night.
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Per ESPN, the last Mets pitcher to take a no-hitter into the ninth inning was Tom Seaver in 1975, one which was broken up with two outs in the ninth inning. The Cardinals, meanwhile, haven't been no-hitsince 1990, when Fernando Valenzuela did it at Dodger Stadium in 1990.
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