NEW YORK -- Someday, maybe when he turns 50 or 60 or even 70, Bartolo Colon might get knocked off the mound.In the meantime, hes in total control.Colon pitched three-hit ball for seven sharp innings and the New York Mets overcame another home run by Jedd Gyorko to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1 Tuesday night for a doubleheader split.Just throwing it straight. It was going where I wanted it, the 43-year-old Colon said through a translator.Gyorko homered in both ends and has connected seven times in nine games. His two-run shot helped St. Louis win the opener 3-2.Anytime you can win the first one, you hope to win the second one, Gyorko said. I think the way we pitched today, we probably shouldve won two. But obviously any day that you win a game, its a good day.Behind Colon, the Mets threw the ball well, too.Colon (9-5) struck out eight and walked none, throwing 65 of his 87 pitches for strikes. After Gyorko homered in the second and Alberto Rosario doubled in the third, Colon set down 14 of his final 15 batters.On a staff full of young talent, Colon is doing so well that the Mets plan to bring him back on three days rest to start Saturday night against Colorado.Hes pitching as good, if not better, than anybody, manager Terry Collins said.Addison Reed worked the eighth and Jeurys Familia closed for his 36th save this year and 52nd in a row during the regular season.Asdrubal Cabrera ended his 0-for-32 rut with runners in scoring position with an RBI double and added a sacrifice fly off Jaime Garcia (7-7). Wilmer Flores doubled and singled twice, and Collins helped by winning his third replay challenge of the day.The Mets have alternated wins and losses for the last 12 games. They returned to Citi Field for the first time since the All-Star break, facing their fellow NL wild-card contenders.A rainout Monday forced the first doubleheader between the Mets and Cardinals since 1999.Gyorko hit his 14th homer for an early edge in the nightcap. The Cardinals lead the NL with 138 home runs, one more than last years total.St. Louis has homered in 17 straight games, its best streak since a team-record string of 19 games in 2006.Cabrera tied it with a double in the third. He smiled as he pulled into second base after breaking his long drought.He took a lot of ribbing when he got back into the dugout, Collins said. You cant help but think about it because its brought to your attention a lot.The Mets took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on a double by Flores, a dropped flyball by right fielder Randal Grichuk and a double-play grounder.Juan Lagares beat out an infield hit in the fifth, with Collins winning a challenge, and that set up Cabreras sacrifice fly.In the opener, Gyorko homered off Noah Syndergaard (9-5) for a 3-0 lead in the third.Carlos Martinez (10-6) gave up a two-run homer to Rene Rivera and left after the fifth inning. Three relievers finished, with Seung Hwan Oh getting his fifth save in six chances.TRAINERS ROOMMets 3B Jose Reyes went to the hospital with a strain in his side after getting hurt on a swing in his last at-bat of the opener. Collins said Reyes will be out a couple of days.26TH MANThe Cardinals recalled RHP Sam Tuivailala as the 26th player for the second game. He pitched a scoreless inning.The Mets brought up 27-year-old lefty Josh Smoker -- hes made 43 relief appearances for Triple-A Las Vegas, and had never been in the majors. He didnt get into the game, but said the all-day trip from Fresno, California, to Phoenix to New York was worth it.Smoker got his first look at Citi Field, arriving around the sixth inning of the second game and hurrying to get ready. I was dressing as I was going to the bullpen. I didnt want to miss a minute. Got to shake hands at the end of the game. Honestly, it hasnt sunk in yet, he said.Smoker said he hadnt heard what the Mets planned for him in the next day or so.UP NEXTCardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright (9-5, 4.09) is 3-0 with a 0.93 ERA in four July starts.Mets: RHP Logan Verrett (3-6, 4.14) starts Wednesday night vs. St. Louis. No one on the Cardinals active roster has batted against him. Dick Van Arsdale Jersey . Fred Couples, captain of the U.S. side, put it all into perspective. 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DORAL, Fla. -- Goran Dragic got the word he was getting traded to Miami and didnt need long to start envisioning what it would be like to play alongside Chris Bosh.That was nearly two years ago.And they got a mere 44 games together.Getting ready to play without Bosh has become an unfortunate tradition in Dragics tenure as point guard for the Heat. And with the team set to fly to the Bahamas on Monday for a training camp without not only Bosh but Dwyane Wade as well, Dragic knows his role with the Heat is about to expand in ways he likely could not have imagined.I feel for Chris, Dragic said Saturday at an appearance where he signed autographs for fans at a team merchandise store. This is real. We are playing basketball. And unfortunately, he cannot do that right now. I wish him all the best. But we already survived without a lot of key players, so hopefully we can do it this year.Boshs career figures to be in serious jeopardy now, after the Heat announced Friday that they were unable to clear him for basketball activities. Bosh had undergone medical examinations and was meeting with doctors in Miami and New York in the days before the Heat decision was announced.Setbacks may happen, but my intentions remain the same, Bosh said on Twitter.He wants to play, though the blood-clot problems that ended his 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons -- and now are keeping his 2016-17 season from getting started -- may make that impossible. The word that a clot was ending his season in February 2015 came on the same day that the Heat traded for Dragic, and Bosh missed every game after the All-Star break last season bbecause of additional clot problems.ddddddddddddSo instead of teaming with Wade -- now with the Chicago Bulls -- and Bosh, Dragic will be running an offense featuring newly signed center Hassan Whiteside, new additions like Dion Waiters and Wayne Ellington, and second-year players Justise Winslow and Josh Richardson.I was just disappointed, sad, Dragic said, when asked what his reaction was to Fridays news. There was a lot of emotions involved. But it is what it is. Im here to work. Im here to play basketball. Of course, we wish him all the best.The Heat are not able to tell their side of the Bosh story, citing an NBA rule that precludes a team from releasing certain medical information without a players consent.Its unknown why Bosh wont give that consent.Bosh acknowledged in a video released Wednesday that doctors found multiple clots this past February, and said in a podcast on Sept. 14 that hes ready to play. The Heat and doctors who have seen him since dont agree.Part of the story line that Bosh has put forward in his talks with Uninterrupted, LeBron James digital platform, is that he has been in contact with NHL player Tomas Fleischmann -- someone who has been able to play hockey while taking bloodthinners because of his history of blood clots -- and learned about the regimen hes used over the past several seasons.But Fleischmann failed his physical with the Minnesota Wild this weekend, though the team did not say if the reason was related to clotting problems. ' ' '