{"id":261455,"date":"2026-06-10T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261455\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:10:08","slug":"cardinals-blank-mets-7-0-for-5th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261455\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals blank Mets 7-0 for 5th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Burleson homered and finished with three RBIs on Tuesday night, powering the surging St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-0 victory over the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin May tossed six solid innings to snap a seven-start winless streak for the Cardinals, who have won five straight games \u2014 one shy of their season high.<\/p>\n<p>JJ Westerholt&#8217;s two-run double against Freddy Peralta (4-5) sparked a four-run third. Jordan Walker had an RBI double and Lars Nootbaar added a run-scoring groundout later in the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Burleson hit a two-run shot to left field in the fifth before lacing an RBI double off Joey Gerber in the seventh. The three-RBI game was the fifth this season for Burleson, who entered Tuesday tied for seventh in the NL in RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Herrera was plunked twice and had three hits in five plate appearances. Nathan Church, activated from the injured list earlier Tuesday, had three hits and robbed Marcus Semien of a two-run double with a basket catch to end the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>May (4-6) allowed four hits and struck out six with one walk. The red-haired right-hander was 0-4 with a 3.86 ERA since his previous win on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Ewing had two hits for the Mets, who were blanked for the seventh time \u2014 one shy of their total from last season.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Alvarez was 1 for 3 in his return from a right knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta gave up six runs and struck out five with two walks over six innings.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals RHP Andre Pallante (6-4, 3.96 ERA) starts against RHP Christian Scott (2-0, 2.50) in the middle game of the series Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alec Burleson homered and finished with three RBIs on Tuesday night, powering the surging St. Louis Cardinals to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[996,9,11,10,44602],"class_list":["post-261455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}