Big league bound: Cardinals call on Gorman, Liberatore to revamp roster after

The New York Mets had not yet stopped celebrating their 7-6 victory in the 10th inning when the Cardinals management began revamping the roster in the middle of a road trip. The visitors’ clubhouse remained closed to anyone but team officials for 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 26 minutes after the final out — not because of what was being said to the current team after a sour series in Queens, but who was being added to it overnight.

Nolan Gorman and Matthew Liberatore, the Cardinals’ top prospects and friends since their boyhoods in Arizona, will join the club in Pittsburgh for their major-league debuts. Liberatore, a lefty and one of the top pitching prospects in the minors, will start Saturday at PNC Park. Gorman, the game’s leading power prospect with a Triple-A best 15 homers, will take over at second base Friday.

“We have a need,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “So, he’s coming to fill it.”

And more changes could follow.

For the second consecutive game, a short start and overextended innings left the bullpen exposed and then it shattered. After allowing nine runs in a loss Wednesday, Cardinals relievers misplaced a lead in the fifth and 10th innings. Harrison Bader ran the Cardinals back into the game with a steal in the ninth and scored to tie the game, 5-5, on Paul Goldschmidt’s fourth RBI. In the final swing of his career during a regular-season game in Queens, Albert Pujols extended his major-league record for grounding into double plays, but this one scored Corey Dickerson to give the Cardinals 6-5 lead for closer Giovanny Gallegos to hold. Spoiler: He didn’t.

Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor had barely reached second base as the free runner at the start of the 10th inning when he headed home on Pete Alonso’s third career walk-off homer.

“We’ve got to get deeper in games,” Marmol said of his starters. “The pace of the game wasn’t really pleasant to be honest with you. It was slow. We’ve got to engage our defense a little more, and honestly there will be some reshuffling of that bullpen to see who can get outs.”

The Cardinals had started to prepare for Liberatore’s likely start Saturday since a rainout…