Cardinals Power Past Mets For 3-Game Sweep
The fading Mets appear finished in the pennant race with 15 games to go.
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The fading Mets appear finished in the pennant race with 15 games to go.
Edmundo Sosa hit the go-ahead single in a three-run 11th inning and the St. Louis Cardinals climbed all the way back into playoff position Tuesday night with a wild 7-6 victory over the New York Mets.
Adam Wainwright won his fifth straight start in a rare matchup of 40-year-old pitchers, and the St. Louis Cardinals blanked the New York Mets 7-0 on Monday night.
Francisco Lindor broke an eighth-inning tie with his third homer, sending a drive whistling into the right-field seats, and the Mets beat the Yankees 7-6 on Sunday night.
The Yankees snapped a seven-game skid and ended a run of 11 losses in 13 games since a 13-game winning streak pushed them to the AL wild-card lead.
There was plenty of emotion, and both teams and the fans honored heroes always there to help.
The Yankees lost their season-high seventh in a row and for the 11th time in 13 games following a 13-game winning streak.
The Mets began the day four games behind NL East leader Atlanta and 4 ½ from the second wild card.
The mantle is filled with faces of firefighters who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. The firehouse is home to Engine 3/Ladder 12/Battalion 7 -- the "West Side Warriors." It lost five men.
The third-place Mets (70-70) remained four games behind NL East leader Atlanta, which lost at home to Washington.
The 26-year-old slugger reached the milestone in his 347th game, the second-fastest in major league history.
Pete Alonso hit his 30th home run of the season for New York, which fell four games behind idle Atlanta in the NL East.
Javier Báez went 4 for 4 with a home run, Kevin Pillar hit a grand slam that capped a game-sealing, six-run ninth inning, and the New York Mets defeated the Washington Nationals 13-6 on Sunday.
The Mets won the opener 11-9, blowing a nine-run lead before bouncing back on Francisco Lindor's two-run homer in the ninth inning.
Their five-game winning streak doesn't include a win completed Tuesday in the resumption of an April 11 game postponed by rain against Miami.
