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Tennessee Titans Jersey on a night, where they were shutout for 8 2/3 innings by the Cardinals' pitching staff. Smith's infield single, which saw him hustle and beat Gallegos to the first base bag with a head first slide, scored both runs to give the Mets a 3-2 lead. McNeil, who was standing on second base, used heads up base-running awarene s to come around to score the go-ahead run on Smith's grounder up the first base line.As a result, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol pulled his closer in favor of T.J. McFarland. But McFarland couldn't stop the bleeding for St. Louis, serving up a two-run homer to Brandon Nimmo,
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Kenny Vaccaro Jersey four walks. Scherzer also notched the 106th double digit strikeout game of his career, which is fifth most all-time in MLB history.Scroll to ContinueScherzer and Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas matched each other with seven scorele s innings on Monday evening. However, both hurlers wound up with a no-decision.Although Trevor May allowed two runs in the bottom of
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