NEW YORK -- Terry Pendleton hit an inside-the-park grand slam home run and Joaquin Andujar posted his 11th victory of the season Sunday to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to an 8-2 victory over the New York Mets and a split of their double-header.
George Foster and Rafael Santana each drove in two runs for the Mets in the first game to back the pitching of Dwight Gooden.
Andujar, 11-1, scattered seven hits, striking out three with no walks. His complete game was his fifth in 13 starts.
Pendleton's home run came in the fifth inning off Joe Sambito, the second of four Mets pitchers. Center fielder Terry Blocker collided with right fielder Danny Heep and Pendleton's low fly ball glanced off Blocker's glove. All three runners and Pendleton scored.
Blocker was injured in the collision and was taken from the field on a stretcher. Hospital reports indicated he suffered injuries to both knees, but primary concern was for his left knee.
St. Louis moved to a 4-0 lead in the first four innings off starter Calvin Schiraldi, 2-1. The Cardinals scored twice in the first on Jack Clark's RBI single and a double steal on which Tommy Herr scored. In the third, Willie McGee's RBI single made it 3-0, and Tom Nieto's RBI single in the fourth chased Schiraldi.
New York scored in the seventh when Keith Hernandez doubled and Clint Hurdle followed with a home run, his first major-league home run since Sept. 30, 1981 when he was with the Kansas City Royals.
In the opener, Gooden, the major league's strikeout and ERA leader, had just three strikeouts entering the eighth inning when the Cardinals, trailing 3-1, mounted a threat. Withrunners on second and third, Herr, the National League's leading hitter and RBI man, stepped up to the plate. Gooden bore down and fanned him on three pitches before getting Clark to fly out to end the inning.
'(Mets manager) Davey (Johnson) came out (to discuss walking left-handed batting Herr and pitching to the right-handed Clark), and I said I'd pitch to him and not give in,' said Gooden Sunday after helping the Mets to a 6-1 victory over St. Louis in the first game of a double-header. 'I threw his best fastballs of the game to Herr and Clark.'
In three previous games against the Cardinaals this year, Gooden was 0-1.
'I think it's because we always face Dwight in daylight,' said St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog, 'and we have good contact hitters throughout the lineup.'
Gooden, 9-3, allowed six hits and struck out four. Jesse Orosco worked the ninth inning. St. Louis starter Bob Forsch, 4-4, took the loss.
The Mets took a 2-0 lead in the first. Mookie Wilson led off with a walk and took third on Hernandez's one-out hit-and-run single. Hernandez moved to second after a throw to the plate on Gary Carter's fly out to center. Foster hit a three-hopper up the middle that skipped under shotstop Ozzie Smith's glove for a two-run single.
The Cardinals made it 2-1 in the third. Forsch led off with a double and took third on a wild pitch. Vince Coleman walked and Willie McGee singled home Forsch.
The Mets increased their lead to 3-1 in the seventh on Hernandez's run-scoring groundout with the bases loaded.
New York scored three in the eighth off reliever Ken Dayley. Danny Heep led off with a walk and took third on Foster's double. Howard Johnson was intentionally walked to load the bases. Santana singled home two runs and Johnson scored on a passed ball by Nieto.
