Mets Shutout By Cardinals 3-0 And Waste Solid Outing By Kodai Senga With Poor Offense

 

Mets RHP Kodai Senga (Photo Credits to Jeff Curry-Imagn Images)

The New York Mets lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 tonight at Busch Stadium and dropped their record to 3-2.

RHP Kodai Senga started out well with two scoreless inning, but then ran into trouble in the bottom of the third.

Senga was let down by his defense after CF Luis Robert Jr let him down after misplaying a line drive  over his head and then made a poor throw home on the following hitter which allowed runners to advance to second and third.

Senga then gave up a two-run double to catcher Ivan Herrera.

Senga was able to settle down after that retiring the next six hitters he faced and then worked around two walks in the bottom of the fifth to throw a scoreless inning.

Senga closed out his outing in dominating fashion striking out the side in the bottom of the sixth.

His final line was six innings, two runs, four hits, three walks and nine strikeouts on 92 pitches with 56 strikeouts. Senga averaged 97.4 mph on his 36 fastballs and his last pitch was a 98 mph fastball.

LHP Richard Lovelady followed in the bottom of the seventh and gave up a solo homer to 3B Ramon Urias to start the inning and then gave up a single and intentional walk, but did not allow any more runs.

Lovelady stayed in for the bottom of the eighth and threw a scoreless inning.

The Met offense did nothing all night with only three hits and drawing four walks. They went 0-4 with runners in scoring position leaving six runners on base,

The Mets next game is tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, April 1 at the Cardinals at 1:15 p.m.