Game Summary<\/p>\n
After a one hour plus rain delay, the Mets and Cardinals matched up in a pitcher\u2019s duel, with Liberatore carrying a no-no into the fifth inning. The taut pitcher\u2019s duel was interrupted by a Juan Soto solo HR in the 6th, but matched up by a key two-out, two-strike RBI single by Nolan Gorman to knot the score up. The 1-1 tie carried into the 11th inning, when a bloop single by Masyn Winn brought home the extra runner (JJ Wetherholt) for a Cardinal walk-off victory.<\/p>\n
Mathew Liberatore pitched six strong innings giving up 3 hits, 1 R, 1 BB, 2 K. The Cardinals bullpen held serve for 5 more innings, pitching very sharp with the exception of Roycroft\u2019s struggles in the tenth. Graceffo pulled a magic act escaping a bases-loaded, one-out situation and is rewarded with the walk-off win.<\/p>\n
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The Cardinals take the series, 2-1 and end the homestand 4-2. Well done by the home team. On to Detroit after an off-day tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Line-up (and roster) machinations<\/p>\n
Saggese gets a start in LF, Church moves to RF, Walker gets an off-day.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, normal alignment with L-R-L \u2026 arranging the batting order<\/p>\n
If you missed it yesterday, Graceffo joined the team, with Pushard to the IL-15.<\/p>\n
Liberatore on the mound for the home team. Peralta for the Metropolitans.<\/p>\n
Soto is the only straight-up LH hitter in their line-up.<\/p>\n
The Game Details<\/p>\n
A view from the box score, for those who want a deeper sense of the game.<\/p>\n
T1 \u2013 Libby starts out inducing weak contact. P6. 5-3. F9.<\/p>\n
B1 \u2013 Wetherholt K\u2019s. Can already see teams are peppering him high and away. The last two strikes were out of the zone, following a take on a borderline strike. Herrera singles. Burly GIDP, except Lindor forgot there was only one out and didn\u2019t throw to first. Oops. Fielder\u2019s indifference? Winn K\u2019s to end the inning.<\/p>\n
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T2 \u2013 Another smooth inning for Libby. L4. 5-3. 5-3.<\/p>\n
B2 \u2013 Gorman lines out. Sags K\u2019s. Church with a deep fly. It must be a get-away day after a rain delay with the fast pace of the game .<\/p>\n
T3 \u2013 6-3. 1-3. 4-3. Nine up, nine down. 34 pitches first time threw the line-up. Very sharp.<\/p>\n
B3 \u2013 Pages grounds out. Scott II K\u2019s. Wetherholt gets a second look at Peralta. An ABS challenge goes his way (on an away pitch, of course). JJW K\u2019s. Peralta is matching Libby with zeros and teaching an absolute master level class on how to live on the edge and then just off it with 2 strikes. He, too, is very, very sharp.<\/p>\n
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T4 \u2013 F7. K. L7.<\/p>\n
B4 \u2013 Herrera grounds out. Burleson grounds out. Masyn Winn lines out. And the beat goes on.<\/p>\n
T5 \u2013 L7. Sags has handled himself well today defensively. 6-3 on a nice play by Winn. Robert\u2019s AB included a successful ABS challenge by Pages. Vientos breaks up Libby\u2019s no-no with a 2-out double. Semien follows with a walk, following an unsuccessful ABS challenge by Pages. Libby pitching out of the stretch, just missing. Libby closes it out with a K. Still tied, 0-0.<\/p>\n
B5 \u2013 Gorman walks. Saggese advances him with a single. Church grounds into force play after two unsuccessful bunt attempts. Church advances to 2nd on a weird wild pitch. Alvarez blocked a pitch, and then seemed to forget about Church, who then took second. Pages K\u2019s. Scott II grounds out, stranding two.<\/p>\n
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T6 \u2013 P9. Followed by E-5, but then Lindor gets picked off while drifting off first base. Libby was paying attention, Lindor was not. Soto hits solo HR. Bichette singles. Polanco F9. Mets now up 1-0.<\/p>\n
B6 \u2013 Wetherholt singles. Herrera walks. Burly K. Winn pops out. Gorman picks everyone up with key two-out RBI single. Brozoban in for Peralta, who pitched extremely well. Sags K\u2019s. Now 1-1.<\/p>\n
T7 \u2013 Stanek replaces Liberatore, who was really, really good. Lead-off single. F9. K. An E-2 (catcher\u2019s interference) ended Stanek\u2019s outing. Romero relieves and gets a key strikeout. Still 1-1.<\/p>\n
B7 \u2013 Raley in for Brazoban. Walker backwards K. Pages K. Scott bunts out 1-3.<\/p>\n
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T8 \u2013 6-3. F9. 6-3. Romero very sharp.<\/p>\n
B8 \u2013 Weaver in for Raley. F9. K. L9.<\/p>\n
T9 \u2013 O\u2019Brien in for Romero. Double. K. 6-3. K. Dominance.<\/p>\n
B9 \u2013 Williams replaced Weaver. Winn walks. Gorman lines out to right. Winn steals second to put winning run in scoring position, but F9 and another Walker K quelled the rally. Extra innings ahead, 1-1.<\/p>\n
T10 \u2013 Bruihl in for O\u2019Brien. Semien is the runner at second. A skipper back to Bruihl catches Semien off, but poor execution on the run down results in the batter getting to second. P6. Walk. P4 gets a big out on Soto. Nice job by Bruihl to keep the extra runner stranded. 1-1.<\/p>\n
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B10\u2013 Myers in for Williams. Pages K (his third). Scott 4-3. Wetherholt 3-1. Nothing doing here.<\/p>\n
T11 \u2013 Roycroft in for Bruihl. Soto the extra runner. Bichette bangs one off Roycroft that became 6-3 with Soto to third. A pair of subsequent walks ended Roycroft\u2019s outing. The wheels came off for him. The poise he was showing in spring has evaporated. Graceffo in. 4-2 force at home holds the tie. F9 allows Graceffo to wiggle out of the inning. Great job! Good moment for him. Still 1-1.<\/p>\n
B11 \u2013 Wetherholt is the extra runner. Herrera IBB. Burleson GIDP takes the wind out of the sails, but a bloop by Winn that drops brings home some walk-off magic, 2-1 Cardinals.<\/p>\n
Post-Game Notes<\/p>\n
Liberatore\u2019s change (88 mph) is almost as hard as McGreevy\u2019s FB. I didn\u2019t realize his \u201ccambio\u201d was that firm.<\/p>\n
Mathews started today for Memphis. 5 K\u2019s, 4 BB\u2019s in 3 IP, no ER. Crook has started his season on fire, with his third HR today.<\/p>\n
Mets made 3 critical mental errors in this game, plus gave away challenges they\u2019d need later. They have some clean-up work to do. Maybe Mets stands for \u201cMental Excursions Today\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Summary After a one hour plus rain delay, the Mets and Cardinals matched up in a pitcher\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,28076,160,147,13660,134,15517,1553,1453,17271,4,61,1893,6051,7367,673,67,69184,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-658472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bruihl","10":"tag-cardinals","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-graceffo","13":"tag-juan-soto","14":"tag-libby","15":"tag-masyn-winn","16":"tag-matthew-liberatore","17":"tag-mcgreevy","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-new-york-mets","20":"tag-nolan-gorman","21":"tag-peralta","22":"tag-raley","23":"tag-st-louis","24":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","25":"tag-stanek","26":"tag-stlouis","27":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116334483427229201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}