NEW YORK (Interstat) — Juan Soto’s solo home run in the seventh inning broke a tie and lifted the New York Mets to a 5-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday afternoon at Citi Field.

Alec Burleson homered in the first inning to put St. Louis ahead 1-0. The Mets answered with three runs in the bottom half on Bo Bichette’s two-run homer and Jared Young’s solo shot. St. Louis regained the lead in the second on a solo homer by Lars Nootbaar and a two-run blast by Jimmy Crooks. Young’s RBI single in the fifth tied the game before Soto’s go-ahead homer in the seventh.

Brooks Raley (2-1) earned the win with a scoreless inning of relief. Devin Williams pitched a perfect ninth for his ninth save. JoJo Romero (0-2) took the loss.

Hunter Dobbins allowed three earned runs in 4 1/3 innings for St. Louis. The Mets outhit the Cardinals 10-7. Attendance was 37,019. The game lasted 2 hours, 39 minutes. New York improved to 30-38, while St. Louis fell to 37-29.