Alec Burleson hit his first homer in almost nine months Friday night, a three-run blast that powered the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-2 win over the New York Mets.
“You can’t really hit it at them when you hit it over the fence,” Burleson said with a grin. “Being able to go up there with a plan and approach and actually execute it and get rewarded for it is awesome.”
Burleson started Friday for just the fifth time in the Cardinals’ last 15 games. He had seven singles in 18 at-bats between extra-base hits. “I think it gets you to drop your shoulders a little bit — take a breath that you finally got rewarded,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “He’s been taking good swings at people. Some haven’t dropped. And that’s a big swing there that helped us win this ballgame. So let’s build off of that.”went 2-for-4 with an RBI double in his Mets debut. Martinez signed a one-year contract March 23 but was sidelined by lower back stiffness.
“Just trying to go up there and be competitive, that was my whole thing today,” Martinez said. “Just put the ball forward. I did it twice. The other ones, I didn’t put it forward.”hit a 445-foot homer off the facade along the second deck in left field in the third for the Cardinals. gave up two runs in 5 2/3 innings to lower his ERA from 6.49 to 5.91. He wriggled out of a two-on, none-out jam in the first by gettingto hit into a double play.
“They barreled some balls right at people but he was able to get his outs when needed,” Marmol said. “Overall did a really nice job.”went 0-for-3 but was hit by a pitch in the second to extend his streak of reaching base safely to 24 games, the longest streak in the majors this season and tied for the second-longest such streak of Arenado’s career.“I thought we had decent at-bats,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “Just couldn’t get the big hit.
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