Manaea pitches scoreless ball in 2nd straight start, Mets beat Cardinals 6-0 in makeup game

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sean Manaea won consecutive starts for the first time this season, Tyrone Taylor hit a three-run double from the No. 2 slot in the batting order and the New York Mets beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-0 Monday in the makeup of a May 8 rainout.

“We went out and battled and did a good job,” Taylor said. “That was cool, hitting second.”

Manaea (8-4) allowed six hits in seven innings, struck out 10 and walked none. He has pitched 14 scoreless innings in his last two starts, giving up eight hits, striking out 21 and walking one.

“I'm getting ahead of guys,” Manaea said. “I'm using my fastball and my sweeper. My sweeper has been good. I'm gaining more confidence in the sweeper.”

New York has won eight of his last 10 starts.

“He had complete control of the game,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. "With the fastball and sweeper, he was attacking hitters and getting ahead.”

Ryne Stanek and Edwin Díaz finished with hitless relief in the Mets’ fourth shutout -- all from July 11 on.

New York (59-53) won the season series 4-2 and holds the tiebreak advantage over the Cardinals should it be needed to determine a wild-card berth or postseason homefield advantage. The Mets are 10-7 since the All-Star break.

Jeff McNeil hit his 10th home run for New York, his sixth since the start of July.

St. Louis (57-56) has lost four of five and has dropped 16 of its last 24 games against left-handed starters. It was the fourth time the Cardinals have been shut out this season, all on getaway day games.

Andre Pallante (4-6) gave up five runs, five hits wand two wild pitches in 4 2/3 innings. He entered with a 0.93 in seven career relief appearances against the Mets.

“I didn't have a great feel for my curveball today,” Pallante said. “That's my best putaway pitch and not having that hurt me a lot.”

Pete Alonso walked and scored on a wild pitch in the second inning.

Former Cardinal Harrison Bader was given an ovation before his first at-bat and hit an RBI double in a four-run fifth that included a double into the right-field corner by Taylor, who was moved ahead of Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Martinez and Pete Alonso in the batting order.

“I came here last year as a Yankee. To see everybody stand up there, it really does mean the world to me," Bader said. "There's so much love in this city. This is a cathedral to play in especially when you're in center field. It makes me very emotional.”

McNeill homered in the sixth off Shawn Armstrong, acquired from Tampa Bay on July 30 for outfielder Dylan Carlson. Nine of his 10 homers have come on the road.

TRAINERS ROOM

Mets: 3B Mark Vientos did not play, a day after he fouled a ball off his right ankle at the Los Angeles Angels.

Cardinals: RHP Lance Lynn (right knee strain) played catch before the game afrer three days of no activity.

UP NEXT

Mets: RHP Luis Severino (7-4, 3.93) starts Tuesday night's opener at Colorado, which goes with LHP Kyle Freeland (3-4, 5.64). Severino has never faced the Rockies.

Cardinals: RHP Sonny Gray (10-6, 3.72) will be on the mound for the start of a three-game series against visiting Tampa Bay and LHP Jeffrey Springs (0-0, 4.91). Gray has struck out 26 over his last three starts.

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St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Andre Pallante throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Andre Pallante, top, covers home as New York Mets' Pete Alonso, bottom, slides home to score a run on a wild pitch during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

St. Louis Cardinals catcher Pedro Pages catches a pop fly for an out against New York Mets' Harrison Bader during the third inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

New York Mets' Harrison Bader raises his helmet as he acknowledges cheering fans prior to batting during the third inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

New York Mets' Harrison Bader hits an RBI double during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Andre Pallante walks to the dugout after being relieved from the mound during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Shawn Armstrong pauses on the mound after giving up a solo home run to New York Mets' Jeff McNeil, back right, during the sixth inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

St. Louis Cardinals' Masyn Winn, right, steals second base against New York Mets' Jeff McNeil during the fifth inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

New York Mets' Tyrone Taylor runs after hitting a two-run double during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

New York Mets' Tyrone Taylor hits a two-run double during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

New York Mets starting pitcher Sean Manaea throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Scott Kane)

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday killed at least three people and wounded more than a dozen others, Lebanese health officials said, the first Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital in months that came after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets.

Israel announced the strike, but didn't immediately specify the target in Beirut's crowded southern suburbs, where Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group holds sway.

Lebanon's Health Ministry reported that at least three people were killed and 17 others wounded as local networks broadcast footage of wounded people being pulled from the ruins of a flattened building and ambulances rushing to the scene of the strike.

The strike in Dahiyeh, just kilometers from downtown Beirut, hit during rush hour, as people were leaving work and students headed home from school.

The escalation came as the region awaited the revenge promised by the militant group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, for this week’s mass bombing attack on pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members.

Israel's rare strike on the Beirut suburbs came after Hezbollah pounded Israel with 140 rockets, which the Israeli military said came in three waves targeting sites along the ravaged border with Lebanon.

Following the attacks, the Israeli military said that it had struck areas across southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, but didn’t provide details of damage.

Hezbollah said that its attacks had targeted several sites along the border with Katyusha rockets, including multiple air defense bases as well as the headquarters of an Israeli armored brigade they said they’d struck for the first time.

The Israeli military said that 120 missiles were launched at areas of the Golan Heights, Safed and the Upper Galilee, some of which were intercepted. Fire crews were working to extinguish blazes caused by pieces of debris that fell to the ground in several areas, the military said.

The military didn’t say whether any missiles had hit targets or caused any casualties.

Another 20 missiles were shot at the areas of Meron and Netua, and most fell in open areas, the military said, adding that no injuries were reported.

Hezbollah said that the rockets were in retaliation for Israeli strikes on villages and homes in southern Lebanon, not two days of attacks widely blamed on Israel that set off explosives in thousands of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.

On Thursday, Israel said its military had struck “hundreds of rocket launcher barrels” in southern Lebanon, saying that they “were ready to be used in the immediate future to fire toward Israeli territory.”

The army also ordered residents in parts of the Golan Heights and northern Israel to avoid public gatherings, minimize movements and stay close to shelters in anticipation of the rocket fire that eventually came Friday.

Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily fire since Oct. 8, a day after the Israel-Hamas war’s opening salvo, but Friday’s rocket barrages were heavier than normal.

Nasrallah on Thursday vowed to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices, which he described as a “severe blow.”

At least 20 were killed in the attacks and thousands were wounded when pagers, walkie-talkies and other devices exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The sophisticated attacks have heightened fears that the cross-border exchanges of fire will escalate into all-out war. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the attacks.

In recent days, Israel has moved a powerful fighting force up to the northern border, officials have escalated their rhetoric, and the country’s security Cabinet has designated the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents to their homes in northern Israel an official war goal.

Fighting in Gaza has slowed, but casualties continue to rise.

Overnight, Palestinian authorities said that 15 people were killed in multiple Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.

Those included six people, including an unknown number of children, in an airstrike early Friday morning in Gaza City that hit a family home, Gaza’s Civil Defense said. Another person was killed in Gaza City when a strike hit a group of people on a street.

Israel maintains that it only targets militants, and accuses Hamas and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in residential areas. The military, which rarely comments on individual strikes, had no immediate comment.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says that more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between fighters and civilians in its count, but says a little over half of those killed were women and children.

Israel says it has killed more than 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.

More than 95,000 people have also been wounded in Gaza since Oct. 7, the Health Ministry said.

The war has caused vast destruction and displaced about 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million.

A woman checks the scene of a missile strike from her damaged house in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Rescuers carry a body at the scene of a missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Ambulances arrive at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

People stand on top of a damaged car at the scene of a missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

People and rescuers gather at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

People gather near a damaged building at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

People gather at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

People gather at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket fired from Lebanon, in northern Israel, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)