Mets Lose to Cardinals 7-4 After Late Inning Rally Comes Up Short

 

Mets 1B Pete Alonso (Photo Credits to John Jones-USA Today Sports)

The New York Mets lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 at Citi Field this afternoon for their second consecutive loss and dropped their record back to .500 at 13-13.

RHP Adrian Houser got off to a rocky start in the top of the first after he gave up a RBI single to 3B Nolan Arenado and then a two-run double to 1B Paul Goldschmidr.

Later in the inning, Houser gave up another run on a RBI single by SS Masyn Wynn.

After a scoreless top of the second, Houser's troubles continued in the top of the third after he allowed a RBI double to 2B Nolan Gorman.

Houser gave up another run in the top of the fifth on a balk and was then taken out.

His final line was 4.1 innings, nine hits, six runs, two walks and two strikeouts.

LHP Josh Walker followed with 1.1 scoreless innings.

RHP Dedniel Nunez came in next and threw a 1.0 scoreless inning.

LHP Jake Diekman gave up a run in 1 1/3 innings.

RHP Sean Reid-Foley threw a scoreless top of the ninth.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the four innings, but in the bottom of the fifth LF Brandon Nimmo drove in the first run of the game with an RBI single.

Later in the inning, 1B Pete Alonso hit a three-run homer, the 200th homer of his career. Alonso is the fourth Met to have 200 homers in his career and is fourth on the franchise on the all-time home leaders trailing Darryl Strawberry (252 home runs) David Wright (242 career homers) and Mike Piazza (220 career homers).

In the bottom of the ninth, SS Francisco Lindor popped out with the based loaded and two outs to end the game.

The Mets next game is tomorrow afternoon, Sunday, April 28 at home against the Cardinals at 1:40 p.m.