Mets vs Cardinals (6/9/26) | Mets Highlights
The offense struggled against Cardinals pitcher Dustin May. The Mets scattered five hits, with A.J. Ewing collecting two of them, including a double. Freddy Peralta allowed six earned runs while striking out five over six innings pitched as the Mets fell to the Cardinals in the series opener.
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Jj Weatherholt lines one into center field for a base hit, and that'll bring in the first two runs of the game.
Weatherholt takes a hard turn and then goes back to first.
So a two-run single for the rookie second baseman.
And that's lined past Beatty into left field, a base hit.
Weatherholt will come around to score.
Nice sliding stop by Soto, throwing the ball to second, and diving in safely with a double is Walker, and it's 3-nothing, St. Louis.
Grounds one to second.
Semien looks the runner back, throws to first.
Now the runner coming home.
Yow with the throw.
Safe.
1-2 coming.
And Ewing fights one off.
That's gonna fall into shallow left for a base hit.
Great job by Ewing on a breaking ball, then, on his hands.
And he is two for two, and the Mets have two men on.
Semien launches one out to center.
Back goes Church, way back to the warning track, and he makes a basket catch.
Nathan Church, just installed in center field replacing Victor Scott, got turned around 17 times and still made a terrific play to save a couple of runs.
Brooks is 0 for 3.
And he flies one out to center, and Ewing hesitated going back, and he makes a circus catch.
It has not been the easiest night for A.J.
in center field.
He started back on that ball and then hesitated before putting it back in gear and making that play.
0-2 coming.
And Ewing's down on strikes, and Swanson freezes the Mets.
And that ends this one.
The seventh Mets shutout loss of the year, as the Cardinals behind Dustin May get the opening game of this series 7-nothing.
