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- Updated: July 27, 2016
NEW YORK — A fickle National League Wild Card race took another turn on Tuesday afternoon, when the Cardinals beat Noah Syndergaard and the Mets, 3-2, in the first game of a twinight doubleheader at Citi Field. That allowed St. Louis to leapfrog the Mets at least temporarily in the NL standings, in what was the first of six meetings between the teams this season.
Jedd Gyorko smashed a two-run homer off Syndergaard, who needed 115 pitches to complete six innings, and the Cardinals eked out another run on a pair of infield hits and a Syndergaard throwing error.
The Mets couldn’t muster enough offense to counter that output, despite making Cardinals starter Carlos Martinez throw 106 pitches in five innings. Rene Rivera was the only one to break through for the Mets, hitting a two-run homer in the fourth.
With less than 10 weeks remaining in the regular season, the Mets and Cardinals were among four teams bunched within 1 1/2 games of each other for the second NL Wild Card spot at the start of Tuesday’s play, all of them chasing the Wild Card-leading Dodgers.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDGyorko keeps going: Gyorko got the Cardinals’ offense going, launching a Syndergaard sinker 412 feet to left field, according to Statcast™. The blast was Gyorko’s 13th of the …
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