Mets go hitless with runners in scoring position in walk-off loss to Cardinals
Time after time, the Mets had opportunities to break Wednesday afternoon’s game open. And time after time, their new-look lineup failed to come through. The Mets went 0 for 11 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base in a 2-1 extra-inning loss to the St.
Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. Their struggles loomed particularly large late in the game, as the Mets went 0 for 9 with ...
Time after time, the Mets had opportunities to break Wednesday afternoon’s game open. And time after time, their new-look lineup failed to come through. The Mets went 0 for 11 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base in a 2-1 extra-inning loss to the St.
Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. Their struggles loomed particularly large late in the game, as the Mets went 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position over the final three frames. Those missed opportunities set the stage for a walk-off bloop single by the Cardinals’ Masyn Winn in the 11th.
“We’ve just got to get back to what we do well, which is controlling the strike zone, getting good pitches to hit and doing damage,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “Good hitters that, right now for a couple of games, they’re not getting it done. ” The defeat was the second in a row for the Mets (3-3), who dropped two of three in St.
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