Mikolas pitched eight innings and contributed two RBIs as the Cardinals overwhelmed the New York Mets, 10-2, before a sellout crowd of 47,058 plus Lillianne. A potential shutout slipped from Mikolas’ fingers in the seventh — about the time his eldest was ready to go — and he yielded the ninth to the bullpen. That was the only thing left incomplete in the Cardinals’ sharpest all-around game of the young season. Shortstop Paul DeJong doubled twice, scored twice and twice took singles away, with plays to his backhand and up the middle. Jose Martinez had his third consecutive three-hit home game, Marcell Ozuna walked three times and Paul Goldschmidt punctuated the game with the sixth-longest home run hit by a Cardinal at Busch.
Mikolas rolls through 8 innings, and hits, too, in Cardinals over Mets
