The St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Mets in 13 innings yesterday in a hard-fought game of baseball. Each baseball game is different, and an MLB extra-innings game is always a possibility. You don’t often see such high scoring games, and anyone with Mets tickets sure got their money’s worth. This high-scoring game saw the teams combine for a whopping 15 runs! Talk about excitement! There’s not much better than a baseball game so get your MLB tickets before its too late.
Cardinals pitcher Mike MacDougal (0.00 ERA) got the win, while Pedro Feliciano (2.90 ERA) took the loss for the Mets. Jaime Garcia went 6 innings for the Cardinals, allowed 6 hits, one home run and 3 earned runs with 3 walks and 4 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Cardinals was Mitchell Boggs (3.15), Jason Motte (2.36), Dennys Reyes (3.25), Kyle McClellan (1.98), and Trever Miller (3.55). The Mets’s starter Johan Santana went 5.2 innings, allowed 13 hits, one home run and 7 earned runs with one walk and 2 strikeouts. Manny Acosta (3.21), Hisanori Takahashi (4.47), Elmer Dessens (1.48), Francisco Rodriguez (2.47), Bobby Parnell (0.96), and Raul Valdes (4.01) also pitched for the Mets. With the win, MacDougal’s record goes to 1-0, while Feliciano drops to 2-6. Ryan Franklin earned the save for the Cardinals, bringing his saves up to 19.
In addition to the 8 runs, the Cardinals put up 16 hits and committed no errors. Albert Pujols and Jon Jay tied for most hits for the Cardinals with 3 hits, followed by Colby Rasmus with 2 hits. Albert Pujols had a tough day at the plate, leaving 6 runners on base. David Wright and Jose Reyes tied for most hits for the Mets with 3, followed by Carlos Beltran with 2 hits. Luis Castillo could not get much going at the plate as he left 5 runners on base. The Mets got 7 runs, 13 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Derryl Cousins, D.J. Reyburn, Jim Wolf and Marvin Hudson. There were 35,009 Mets ticket holders in attendance at Citi Field.