ST. LOUIS — Led by Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran, the Mets broke out of their offensive slumber in a big way Sunday night, powering four homers in a 12-5 Game 4 rout of the Cardinals at Busch Stadium that evened the National League Championship Series at two games apiece.Southpaw Oliver Perez, working 5 2/3 innings, was the beneficiary of a Mets eruption that featured five RBIs by Delgado, who homered for the third time in the series, and a pair of solo homers by Beltran, giving him three in the series.
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Another Pitcher Goes Down, and Mets Follow
N.L.C.S. Game 3 – Cardinals 5, Mets 0
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 14 — The ball stayed aloft for several seconds after smacking off Steve Trachsel’s thigh, and in the time it took to plummet to the outfield grass, another injury had placed even more stress on the Mets’ already strained pitching staff.
If the contusion did not knock out Trachsel, then his ineffectiveness surely would have. He did not record an out in the second inning of the Mets’ 5-0 loss to the Cardinals in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday, an all-around miserable evening for a team down by two games to one in this best-of-seven series.
The Mets head into Game 4 on Sunday needing the performance of a lifetime from Oliver Pérez to avoid facing elimination Monday.