Mets Beat Cardinals 6-1 Behind Strong Start by Megill

Mets RHP Tylor Megill (Photo Credits to Corey Sipkin-NY Post)

 The New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 tonight at Citi Field for their second consecutive win and improved their record to 33-36.

The Met offense got on the board immediately in the bottom of the first after CF Brandon Nimmo led off with walk and then RF Starling Marte and 2B Jeff McNeil followed with singles to load the bases.

SS Francisco Lindor then grounded into a 1-2-3 double play, but 3B Brett Baty followed and delivered a two-run double.

LF Tommy Pham followed with a RBI single.

In the bottom of third, Marte led off with a single and then McNeil followed with a single which advanced to Marte to third.

Lindor then hit a sacrifice fly to score Marte.

Two batters later, Pham came through once again with another RBI this time a single.

In the bottom of the sixth, DH Daniel Vogelbach finally came through after a long slump with a towering homer to the upper deck in right field.

RHP Tylor Megill cruised through the first four innings, but in the top of the fifth he gave up a solo home to catcher Wilson Contreras.

Megill then gave up a double and walk, but came back with two strikeouts and was also helped out by his defense after catcher Omar Narvaez threw out LF Jordan Walker trying to steal third. 

Megill had a scoreless top of the sixth and was taken out after the inning.

His final line was six innings, four hits, one run, 0 walks and seven strikeouts.

Megill had sharp command of his slider, change-up and fastball.

He picked up his sixth win and lowered his ERA to 4.83.

RHP Dominic Leone followed with a scoreless top of the seventh,

LHP Josh Walker closed it out with two scoreless innings in the top of the eighth and ninth.

The Mets next game is tomorrow afternoon, Saturday June 17 at home against the Cardinals at 4:10 p.m.