Lindor's Mental Lapses Cost Mets in Loss

0:00On April 2nd, the Mets dropped a tough 2-to-1 hardbreaker and 11 innings to the Cardinals in St. Louis. Francisco Lindor had a rough night at the dish, going 0-4, but his real headaches came on defense and the bases. In the bottom of the first, Lindor stepped on second for a force out on Alec Burleson's grounder, but forgot it was only the second out and jogged off. Without throwing two first, killing a double-play chance. That force Freddie Peralta to strike out Mason-Win and burn extra pitches to escape. Later, in the sixth, Lindor reached on an air, but got picked off first by Matthew Libertor, flat-footed, and caught leaning. Lindor owned the mental lapse right away, calling it inexcusable for costing his pitcher extra work. Manager Carlos Mendoza agreed the forgotten outs couldn't happen, but saw the pickoff as Lindor just being aggressive. No big talk needed since the star knew he messed up. Peralta bounced back strong, leaning on his change up for one earn run, three hits, two walks, and seven strikeouts over 92 pitches.

1:03Meanwhile, Juan Soto kept his on-base streak alive against the cards at 41 games straight. Metz got to shake this off quick. From your team, powered by AI, this is New York Metz News Today.