When the Mets traded for Daniel Vogelbach last year, they envisioned a middle of the lineup with he and Pete Alonso providing prodigious power from the left and right side. That hasn’t come all the way to fruition, but Mets fans saw the plan fully realized tonight against the Cardinals.
Thanks in large part to backbreaking home runs from their Florida men, the Mets (58-66) beat the Cardinals (54-70) 13-2 Saturday night at Busch Stadium, taking the series and continuing to creep up from the bottom of the NL Wild Card chase.
The Mets scored their first two runs thanks to uncharacteristically bad defense from the Cardinals, defensively a league-average team in 2023 despite their other shortcomings.