Mets lose star Scherzer in big victory over Cardinals

NEW YORK: Max Scherzer earned the win but departed with left side discomfort with two outs in the sixth inning on Wednesday night for the hosts New York Mets, who beat the St Louis Cardinals 11-4.

Scherzer was ahead 0-1 on fellow likely Hall of Famer Albert Pujols when he sailed a slider out of the strike zone. The 37-year-old three-time Cy Young Award winner almost immediately signalled for the dugout. He subsequently left the mound with a trainer.

The Mets announced in the eighth inning that Scherzer would undergo imaging yesterday.

Scherzer (5-1) allowed two runs (one earned) on seven hits and no walks with four strikeouts in 5⅔ innings. Pete Alonso homered and drove in four runs for New York. Nolan Arenado hit a tworun homer for the Cardinals.

Keston Hiura hit a walk-off, tworun home run in the bottom of the 11th inning as Milwaukee beat visiting Atlanta 7-6 in the finale of their threegame series.

After Travis d’Arnaud hit a go-ahead single to put the Braves up 6-5, Hiura led off the home 11th with a blast over the centre-field wall, plating ghost runner Jace Peterson to give the Brewers the series win.

Trevor Kelley (1-0) earned the win in relief for Milwaukee. Brewers starter Corbin Burnes went six innings, allowing seven hits and four earned runs.

Isaac Paredes popped a pair of homers, starter Drew Rasmussen posted five scoreless innings and Tampa Bay surged past Detroit 6-1 in St Petersburg, Florida.

Acquired in a trade with Detroit on April 4 for Austin Meadows, Paredes went deep in the third and eighth innings for his first multi-homer game.

Over an 87-pitch outing, Rasmussen (4-1) allowed a pair of hits in the first inning but only two more over the next four innings. He whiffed seven without a walk.