ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Matt Carpenter, Randal Grichuk and Stephen Piscotty homered
off Mets starter Jacob deGrom, powering the St. Louis Cardinals past New York
8-1 Wednesday night.
Carpenter set the tone, hitting a leadoff home run in the first inning. The
Cardinals went on to win for the seventh time in nine games.
Piscotty and Yadier Molina each had three of the Cardinals’ season high-tying
19 hits.
Carlos Martinez (12-7) gave up one run and four hits over eight innings. He
also got two hits himself.
Roughed up for the second straight start, deGrom (7-7) allowed five runs on 12
hits in 4 2/3 innings. He was tagged for a career-worst eight runs and 13 hits
in his previous outing against San Francisco.
The three-game series wraps up Thursday night. Adam Wainwright (9-7) starts
for the Cardinals while the Mets go with Seth Lugo (0-2). Game time is 6:15 with
the pre-game at 5:20 on KTLO-AM.
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