The Mets opened their three-game series against the Cardinals with an uninspiring loss this evening, as the team fell to a team that had been struggling by a 4-2 score.
José Buttó had his worst major league start of the season thus far as he allowed four runs in five-and-two-thirds innings, all of them earned. He struck out four, walked three, and gave up a three-run home run to Alec Burleson in the second and a solo bomb to Willson Contreras in the third.
Tomás Nido put the Mets on the board with a solo home run in the fifth, and J.