Punchless Mets blanked by Cardinals

Curtis Granderson might be hitting the softest .116 in the history of baseball.

The beleaguered Mets outfielder had plenty of company among players who couldn’t make solid contact against Adam Wainwright on Tuesday, but this is getting brutal.

With Granderson still MIA, the Mets were DOA in a 3-0 loss to the Cardinals at Citi Field.

Granderson finished 0-for-3 and ran his hitless streak to a career-worst 22 at-bats. He is batting .116 overall with a homer and five RBIs, but his problems are more pronounced at home, where he’s 4-for-45 (.089). Granderson struck out once and has whiffed eight times in his last five games.

“I’m not getting the results I would like to have,” Granderson said. “As you start to add them up and get a consistent amount of at-bats that aren’t in a positive category, obviously you start to feel those a little bit.”

Granderson walked on four pitches against Trevor Rosenthal in the ninth inning to twice bring the tying run to the plate before David Wright struck out and Daniel Murphy was retired. The Mets (10-10) had a two-game winning streak snapped.

But as Granderson’s free fall continues, manager Terry Collins said he has no plans to bench the slumping star.

“I don’t think there’s any other way,” Collins said. “It’s April, still. We’ve got to get him some at-bats and get him ready.”

Dillon Gee (1-1) gave the Mets a chance by allowing two earned runs over six innings in which he allowed six hits and walked two. It was a second straight strong start by Gee, who pitched seven shutout innings in Arizona last Wednesday.

Wainwright may be remembered around here for his strikeout of Carlos Beltran that ended the 2006 NLCS, but he had struggled against the Mets in the regular season, going 2-4 with a 6.02 ERA in eight appearances.

But on Tuesday, the right-hander was close to untouchable, allowing just four hits over seven shutout innings before leaving the game with a hyperextended right knee.

Matt Holliday reached above the left-field fence in the fifth, robbing Chris Young of an apparent two-run homer. Murphy bunted for a single to begin the inning before Young hit a towering drive to left that Holliday timed perfectly at the top of the fence.

Lucas Duda singled later in the inning, but Wainwright got Travis d’Arnaud to hit into a double play.

Jon Jay’s two-run single gave the Cardinals a 2-0 lead in the fourth after Gee had loaded the bases by allowing consecutive singles to Matt Adams and Yadier Molina following a Holliday walk.