NY Mets wear camouflage uniforms, beat Cardinals as Jenrry Mejia picks up win  —  Mejia (now 3-0) blanks Cardinals over 6-plus, David Wright and Travis d'Arnaud drive in runs for Mets, who get just enough offense.  New closer Kyle Farnsworth gets first save with Mets.  —  Jenrry Mejia knows pain.

Baseball games still take too long.  Blame the Red Sox.  —  It's a rite of spring.  Baseball arrives and everyone notices that baseball games are getting longer and longer.  —  Carl Bialik at Nate Silver's Fivethirtyeight.com site crunched the numbers and, sure enough, the trend is continuing.

Why doesn't Big Papi exploit the infield shift by bunting?  —  Let's do some back of the envelope math.  Whom would you rather have at the plate?  Miguel Cabrera in all of his 2013 glory, or David Ortiz ... bunting?  —  After doing some very extensive mathematical research …

MLB suspends Gomez, Maldonado, others  —  Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Carlos Gomez and catcher Martin Maldonado both were suspended by Major League Baseball for their roles in Sunday's benches-clearing skirmish with the Pittsburgh Pirates.  —  Gomez, who helped start the incident …

Nationals manager Williams doesn't have team focused on details yet  —  Wasn't the Nationals' change in managers supposed to solve the problem?  —  Davey Johnson was too laid-back, so here came the intense Matt Williams, ready to snap the team to attention.  —  The Nats would be disciplined.

Choo sprains left ankle, likely out for rest of A's series  —  X-rays are negative; outfielder will have MRI, could miss next two games  —  OAKLAND — The Rangers will likely be without outfielder Shin-Soo Choo for the next two games against the Athletics after he sprained his left ankle trying …

Jays' Dickey takes ball in opener with Orioles  —  The Sports Network  —  R.A. Dickey will try to solve his control problems tonight when the Toronto Blue Jays begin a three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles.  —  Dickey is 1-3 with a 6.26 earned run average through four starts this season, walking 15 in 23 innings.

Rockies Hit 5 Homers in 8-2 Win Over Giants  —  DENVER — Charlie Blackmon hit two of Colorado's five homers and Jorge De La Rosa threw five efficient innings, lifting the Rockies to an 8-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Monday night.  —  Nolan Arenado, Wilin Rosario and Corey Dickerson …

Renteria hopes Veras can win back closer job  —  CHICAGO — The Cubs have not had a save situation in six games since Jose Veras lost his job as the closer, and in a perfect world, manager Rick Renteria would like to see the right-hander back in that role.  —  First, Veras needs to get in a game and pitch.