Senga Extends Scoreless Streak to 19 Innings, Alonso Homers, Mets Beat Cardinals 3-0

The Associated Press

11:40 JST, April 20, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Kodai Senga extended his scoreless streak to 19 innings, Pete Alonso homered and the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals for the third straight day, 3-0 on Saturday.

Alonso drove in two runs and Juan Soto had an RBI single for the Mets, who have won the first three games of the four-game series.

Senga (3-1) gave up three hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings with four strikeouts, lowering his ERA to 0.79.

Reed Garrett, A.J. Minter and Edwin Díaz followed with hitless relief. Díaz pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to remain perfect in five save chances, finishing the Mets fourth shutout.

St. Louis dropped to 1-8 on the road.

Matthew Liberatore (1-2) gave up two runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings. His 100 pitche were the most by a Cardinals starter this season.

Soto had two hits, raising his average to .240. He had an RBI single in the third and scored on Alonso’s double. Alonso hit his sixth home run this season in the eighth off John King.

Brett Baty threw out Thomas Saggese trying to score on Yohel Pozo’s one-out grounder to third in the fifth.