{"id":579710,"date":"2026-04-02T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:30:10","slug":"lindors-mental-mistakes-cost-mets-in-loss-to-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579710\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindor’s mental mistakes cost Mets in loss to Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS — Francisco Lindor<\/a> made a couple of uncharacteristic mental mistakes Wednesday, and the second one certainly cost the New York Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The star shortstop lost track of the outs on defense in the opening inning and got picked off first base in the sixth – right before teammate Juan Soto<\/a> homered. The slumping Mets stranded 11 runners and lost 2-1 to the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> in 11 innings.<\/p>\n

Lindor reached base in the sixth on a one-out error by third baseman Nolan Gorman<\/a>, but the leadoff hitter wandered too far off the bag and was fiddling with his gloves when he was easily picked off by St. Louis starter Matthew Liberatore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I should have been better,” Lindor said.<\/p>\n

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Mets manager Carlos Mendoza credited the Cardinals with making a good move to nab Lindor.<\/p>\n

“They got us there,” Mendoza said. “He was going to go. They got us with a quick step-off there. I wouldn’t consider that one there a mental mistake. He was trying to get some momentum there and being aggressive.”<\/p>\n

Three pitches later, Soto hit a soaring fly that landed just over the right-field fence inside the foul pole for a solo home run.<\/p>\n

In the first inning, Lindor failed to execute a potential double play when he forgot how many outs there were.<\/p>\n

With one out and Iv\u00e1n Herrera<\/a> on first, left-handed-hitting Alec Burleson<\/a> hit a grounder to Lindor at shortstop. Positioned near second base, Lindor touched the bag but then headed toward the dugout instead of throwing to first to retire Burleson as well.<\/p>\n

By the time Lindor realized his mistake, it was too late. New York starter Freddy Peralta<\/a> struck out the next batter to end the inning.<\/p>\n

“I forgot the outs,” Lindor said. “I made a mistake that probably cost Peralta an extra inning because he had to throw more pitches after that. It’s inexcusable. He probably could have gone six, seven innings. I just forgot the outs. I realized there was just one out. Honest mistake.”<\/p>\n

Mendoza didn’t cover for Lindor.<\/p>\n

“There’s no excuses,” Mendoza said. “He’ll be the first one that tells you that. That can’t happen. He knows. He was pretty (ticked) when he came in. Peralta did a good job picking him up and finishing that inning.”<\/p>\n

New York (3-3) went 1 for 29 with runners in scoring position during the three-game series, including 0 for 11 in the finale.<\/p>\n

“Hats off to them,” Lindor said. “They executed their pitches. They played better. I’ve got to be better, and go out there and win the next series.”<\/p>\n

The Mets have totaled 12 runs in their last five games after scoring 11 on opening day against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

“Good hitters right now for a couple of games, they’re not getting it done,” Mendoza said.<\/p>\n

Lindor remains optimistic the Mets will put everything together.<\/p>\n

“I still believe in what we have,” he said. “We have a good team. We are a couple of pitches away from continuing to get the ball rolling on our side.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS — Francisco Lindor made a couple of uncharacteristic mental mistakes Wednesday, and the second one certainly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-579710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}