Colabello hit a two-run homer in the fifth to break up a scoreless game as Estrada held the Rays to three hits in facing one batter over the minimum. So they joined forces to go 1 for 34 with runners in scoring position and to leave 39 runners on base.
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Five hours and 55 minutes later, the “doubleheader” came to an end with the Mets taking the win 3-1.
Ruben Tejada hit a sacrifice fly in the 18th inning, and the New York Mets outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 on Sunday despite stranding a franchise-record-tying 25 baserunners. Boston defeated the Yankees in 19 innings in April.
“It was one we needed to win”, Eric Campbell said of Sunday’s victory. “Not something to be proud of but you get the “W” and it makes everything else better”. Plawecki safe at first on a sacrifice plus pitcher C.Martinez’s fielding error, W.Flores to third, Granderson to second.
It was the longest Mets game since July 8, 2013 at San Francisco when the Mets won 4-3 in 16 innings.
But in the 13th, Plawecki slapped a ground ball single off Cardinals reliever Carlos Villanueva to score Granderson.
That’s precisely what happened Sunday against the St. Louis Cardinals. Closer Trevor Rosenthal, who did not pitch in the All-Star Game because of a sore arm, was unavailable, Matheny said. The futile hitting with runners in scoring position was the majors’ worst since at least 1974.
The Mets put a runner on base in every inning except the first and had runners in scoring position in all nine extra innings.
“That’s not good enough”, Collins said, jokingly. “We aren’t happy about that”. “I’ve never seen more flying helmets in my life coming down the tunnel”. St. Louis’ Tim Cooney worked 5 2/3 scoreless innings, permitting three hits and walking four while fanning seven.
PADRES 5, ROCKIES 4 Clint Barmes hit a tiebreaking, two-run home run in the seventh and rookie catcher Austin Hedges homered and threw out a runner for host San Diego, which beat Colorado for its fourth consecutive victory. On a steamy day with a game-time temperature of 92 degrees – a thermometer in the photographers’ well down the first-base line read over 100 – both Cy Young Award winning starters, CC Sabathia and Felix Hernandez, were done after six impressive innings with the score tied 1-1.
Plawecki, who finished with two hits in eight at-bats, redeemed himself after his own failures with RISP earlier in the game. Jhonny Peralta singled with one out and went to third on a two-out double by Yadier Molina before Familia struck out Tommy Pham to extend the game. This was the second longest game in Cardinals history playing at home, in Busch Stadium.
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That deflated a Mets squad that had finally broken through in the top of the inning when Granderson, an offensive substitution in the eighth, had lined what looked like a single to right field. TRAINER’S ROOM Cardinals: OF Jason Heyward didn’t start after exiting Saturday night’s game because of leg cramps. Now, they have to hop on a late flight to Washington, D.C. for a three-game set against the Nationals before heading back to Queens, New York for a 10-game homestand. Shelby Miller (5-6) struck out 8 and allowed 4 hits, 4 walks and 3 runs – 1 earned – in 6 innings for the Braves. Gio Gonzalez starts for the Nats. The young right-hander was supposed to start Tuesday night against the White Sox.
