• That's game. The disaster continues. Seven straight losses. Another sweep. Cardinals 5, Pirates 0
• Valdez flies out to left.
• Bart down swinging.
• End of eighth inning: Holderman hit triple digits with his sinker on a few occasions there against Walker and Pages, who he struck out. Averaging around 97 with that pitch this season.
• RUNS: Walker sends a two-run single up the middle past a diving Frazier. Cardinals, 5-0
• Gorman strikes out swinging for the second time today. Ferguson will be replaced by Colin Holderman.
• Baker doubles down the third-base line. Runners on second and third for Gorman.
• LukenBaker will hit for Burleson.
• Contreras down looking.
• Donovan legs out an infield single.
• Caleb Ferguson enters.
• McCutchen retired 4-3 to strand two.
• Reynolds strikes out swinging. Two outs.
• Single for Cruz puts runners on the corners with one out.
• Peguero flies out to left.
• Pham singles to right. Third Pirates hit of the day. Comes against Kyle Leahy.
• End of seventh inning: Winn pops out to Valdez in shallow right.
• A: 27,453
• Two-out ground-rule double for Nootbaar. Brings up Winn, who is 2 for 3 with two doubles and two RBIs today.
• Scott grounds into a 3-6 double play.
• Keller gives up a leadoff single to Pages and his day is now done after completing six innings of work. RyanBorucki will enter to face two lefties in Scott and Nootbaar.
• Offense is just non-existent. Hayes goes down swinging and Frazier grounds out to end another scoreless inning for Gray. He's struck out eight and allowed two hits over seven innings.
• Valdez retired 3-1.
• End of sixth inning: A 1-2-3 sixth for Keller, who strikes out Gorman and Walker.
• Keller still out there. Gets Burleson to ground out 4-3 to begin the sixth.
• Bart lines out to center to end the inning.
• Two-out single for McCutchen. Didn't leave the infield dirt, but was hit close enough down the third-base line where Gorman wasn't able to get a strong enough throw to first in time.
• Reynolds hits a soft grounder to second and is retired 4-3.
• Cruz pops out to first.
• End of fifth inning: Keller strikes out Contreras with a sweeper at the top of the zone. He's through five at 80 pitches.
• Donovan flies out to center.
• RUN: Winn does it again. He doubles to left and Scott scores from first. Second RBI of the game. Pham took a strange route to that ball. Didn't expect it to hit off the wall in foul territory, I suppose. Cardinals, 3-0
• Scott goes the other way for a leadoff single to left. Third time the Cardinals have led off an inning with a hit. Keller followed with a double-play ball in those other two instances.
• Peguero down swinging to end the top of the fifth. Seven strikeouts through five innings for Gray. Another sweeper to fool a hitter.
• Pham strikes out swinging at a sweeper down in the zone. Gray has gone to his sweeper eight times and generated three whiffs with it.
• Frazier flies out to center.
• End of fourth inning: Pages flies out to Cruz in center. Keller was working high in the zone there and got Pages to record an out on a sweeper up. A 10-pitch inning for Keller.
• Walker grounds into a 5-4-3 double play.
• Single to right for Gorman. Curveball down and out of the zone.
• Hayes caught looking at a sinker practically right down the middle. Two runners stranded to end the top of the fourth.
• Valdez pops out to third.
• Bart does what he's done quite frequently as of late and reaches on a walk. Was down in the count 0-2 before coming back to draw the walk. Three straight sweepers and a sinker that missed the zone from Gray.
• McCutchen reaches on catcher's interference.
• Reynolds strikes out looking at a curveball down in the zone to lead off the fourth.
• End of third inning: Keller gets Burleson to strike out swinging, limiting the damage to two runs. What's sad is that this lead already seems practically insurmountable given the way this offense routinely performs.
• Keller losing control here. Second walk of the inning allows Contreras to reach. OscarMarin out for a chat.
• Again, another pitch out of the zone that a Cardinals hitter goes out to get. This time, a 2-2 sweeper well out of the zone to Winn.
• RUN: Winn bloops a double into right. Cardinals, 2-0
• Wasn't really a bad pitch there by Keller. Fastball on the outer edge that Nootbaar made good contact on. Credit to Scott for being able to capitalize on the basepaths there.
• RUN: Scott scores from first on a single by Nootbaar. Reynolds fielded cleanly, hit his cutoff man in Peguero and the throw wasn't in time to get him at the plate. Cardinals, 1-0
• Scott draws a one-out walk. Keller was a little all over the place there. His 3-2 fastball was low and inside.
• Keller gets Pages swinging at a 2-2 sweeper well out of the zone.
• Cruz goes down swinging to end the top half of the third. Pirates have just one hit against Gray through three.
• Peguero pops out to the first baseman Contreras.
• Pham retired 5-3.
• Arenado was scratched from today's start due to back spasms.
• End of second inning: Keller gets Walker swinging for his first strikeout of the day. He's at 21 pitches through two innings. Increased velo with all five of his pitches early on.
• Gorman walks on five pitches. Keller got ahead with strike one, but couldn't command his fastball or changeup in the zone. Missed high and away.
• Keller benefitting from some quick outs. Gets Contreras to fly out to right and Burleson to pop out in shallow left-center. Needed four pitches to get those two outs.
• Frazier pops out to short to end the inning.
• Two-out single to center for Hayes.
• Valdez strikes out for the second out.
• Shelton and the trainer coming out to take a look at Valdez. He'll stay in the game, but it looked like he might've taken a foul ball off the leg.
• Bart flies out to right.
• End of first inning: Cruz certainly makes it look interesting. Thought he might have misjudged a fly ball off the bat of Donovan, but he's able to make a running catch to retire him. A seven-pitch first for Keller.
• Nootbaar and Winn are erased on a 5-4-3 double play.
• Nootbaar singles on a line to center.
• Donovan has McCutchen played perfectly up the middle. Retires him 4-3 to end the top of the first.
• Reynolds retired 4-3.
• Cruz works the count full before looking at a fastball on the inner edge for strike three.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Cardinals, 1:16 p.m. Eastern, SonnyGray to OneilCruz, 68 degrees, sunny
• Lineup change for the Cardinals: Arenado has been scratched and NolanGorman will now play third base and bat sixth.
• Derek Shelton's starting nine:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF 2. Bryan Reynolds, RF 3. Andrew McCutchen, DH 4. Joey Bart, C 5. Enmanuel Valdez, 1B 6. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B 7. Adam Frazier, 2B 8. Tommy Pham, LF 9. Liover Peguero, SS
• Oliver Marmol's lineup:
1. Lars Nootbaar, LF 2. Masyn Winn, SS 3. Brendan Donovan, 2B 4. Nolan Arenado, 3B 5. Willson Contreras, 1B 6. Alec Burleson, DH 7. Jordan Walker, RF 8. Pedro Pages, C 9. Victor Scott II, CF
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José Negron
6:13 am - 05.07.2025St. LouisFinal: Cardinals 5, Pirates 0
• Who: Pirates (12-25) vs. Cardinals (18-19)
• What: MLB regular season, Game 38
• When: 1:15 p.m. Eastern
• Where: Busch Stadium
• Weather: 66°, cloudy
• Pitchers: RHP Mitch Keller (1-3, 4.38 ERA) vs. RHP Sonny Gray (3-1, 4.12 ERA)
• TV: SportsNet Pittsburgh
• Radio: Pirates Radio Network
• Streaming: SNP360, MLB.TV
• Satellite: SiriusXM 861/862
• Boxscore: MLB.com
• Media notes: Pirates | Cardinals
• Bet: Fanatics Sportsbook Missouri promo
FOLLOW ALONG
• That's game. The disaster continues. Seven straight losses. Another sweep. Cardinals 5, Pirates 0
• Valdez flies out to left.
• Bart down swinging.
• End of eighth inning: Holderman hit triple digits with his sinker on a few occasions there against Walker and Pages, who he struck out. Averaging around 97 with that pitch this season.
• RUNS: Walker sends a two-run single up the middle past a diving Frazier. Cardinals, 5-0
• Gorman strikes out swinging for the second time today. Ferguson will be replaced by Colin Holderman.
• Baker doubles down the third-base line. Runners on second and third for Gorman.
• Luken Baker will hit for Burleson.
• Contreras down looking.
• Donovan legs out an infield single.
• Caleb Ferguson enters.
• McCutchen retired 4-3 to strand two.
• Reynolds strikes out swinging. Two outs.
• Single for Cruz puts runners on the corners with one out.
• Peguero flies out to left.
• Pham singles to right. Third Pirates hit of the day. Comes against Kyle Leahy.
• End of seventh inning: Winn pops out to Valdez in shallow right.
• A: 27,453
• Two-out ground-rule double for Nootbaar. Brings up Winn, who is 2 for 3 with two doubles and two RBIs today.
• Scott grounds into a 3-6 double play.
• Keller gives up a leadoff single to Pages and his day is now done after completing six innings of work. Ryan Borucki will enter to face two lefties in Scott and Nootbaar.
• Offense is just non-existent. Hayes goes down swinging and Frazier grounds out to end another scoreless inning for Gray. He's struck out eight and allowed two hits over seven innings.
• Valdez retired 3-1.
• End of sixth inning: A 1-2-3 sixth for Keller, who strikes out Gorman and Walker.
• Keller still out there. Gets Burleson to ground out 4-3 to begin the sixth.
• Bart lines out to center to end the inning.
• Two-out single for McCutchen. Didn't leave the infield dirt, but was hit close enough down the third-base line where Gorman wasn't able to get a strong enough throw to first in time.
• Reynolds hits a soft grounder to second and is retired 4-3.
• Cruz pops out to first.
• End of fifth inning: Keller strikes out Contreras with a sweeper at the top of the zone. He's through five at 80 pitches.
• Donovan flies out to center.
• RUN: Winn does it again. He doubles to left and Scott scores from first. Second RBI of the game. Pham took a strange route to that ball. Didn't expect it to hit off the wall in foul territory, I suppose. Cardinals, 3-0
• Nootbaar flies out to Reynolds in right.
• Scott goes the other way for a leadoff single to left. Third time the Cardinals have led off an inning with a hit. Keller followed with a double-play ball in those other two instances.
• Peguero down swinging to end the top of the fifth. Seven strikeouts through five innings for Gray. Another sweeper to fool a hitter.
• Pham strikes out swinging at a sweeper down in the zone. Gray has gone to his sweeper eight times and generated three whiffs with it.
• Frazier flies out to center.
• End of fourth inning: Pages flies out to Cruz in center. Keller was working high in the zone there and got Pages to record an out on a sweeper up. A 10-pitch inning for Keller.
• Walker grounds into a 5-4-3 double play.
• Single to right for Gorman. Curveball down and out of the zone.
• Hayes caught looking at a sinker practically right down the middle. Two runners stranded to end the top of the fourth.
• Valdez pops out to third.
• Bart does what he's done quite frequently as of late and reaches on a walk. Was down in the count 0-2 before coming back to draw the walk. Three straight sweepers and a sinker that missed the zone from Gray.
• McCutchen reaches on catcher's interference.
• Reynolds strikes out looking at a curveball down in the zone to lead off the fourth.
• End of third inning: Keller gets Burleson to strike out swinging, limiting the damage to two runs. What's sad is that this lead already seems practically insurmountable given the way this offense routinely performs.
• Keller losing control here. Second walk of the inning allows Contreras to reach. Oscar Marin out for a chat.
• Again, another pitch out of the zone that a Cardinals hitter goes out to get. This time, a 2-2 sweeper well out of the zone to Winn.
• RUN: Winn bloops a double into right. Cardinals, 2-0
• Wasn't really a bad pitch there by Keller. Fastball on the outer edge that Nootbaar made good contact on. Credit to Scott for being able to capitalize on the basepaths there.
• RUN: Scott scores from first on a single by Nootbaar. Reynolds fielded cleanly, hit his cutoff man in Peguero and the throw wasn't in time to get him at the plate. Cardinals, 1-0
• Scott draws a one-out walk. Keller was a little all over the place there. His 3-2 fastball was low and inside.
• Keller gets Pages swinging at a 2-2 sweeper well out of the zone.
• Cruz goes down swinging to end the top half of the third. Pirates have just one hit against Gray through three.
• Peguero pops out to the first baseman Contreras.
• Pham retired 5-3.
• Arenado was scratched from today's start due to back spasms.
• End of second inning: Keller gets Walker swinging for his first strikeout of the day. He's at 21 pitches through two innings. Increased velo with all five of his pitches early on.
• Gorman walks on five pitches. Keller got ahead with strike one, but couldn't command his fastball or changeup in the zone. Missed high and away.
• Keller benefitting from some quick outs. Gets Contreras to fly out to right and Burleson to pop out in shallow left-center. Needed four pitches to get those two outs.
• Frazier pops out to short to end the inning.
• Two-out single to center for Hayes.
• Valdez strikes out for the second out.
• Shelton and the trainer coming out to take a look at Valdez. He'll stay in the game, but it looked like he might've taken a foul ball off the leg.
• Bart flies out to right.
• End of first inning: Cruz certainly makes it look interesting. Thought he might have misjudged a fly ball off the bat of Donovan, but he's able to make a running catch to retire him. A seven-pitch first for Keller.
• Nootbaar and Winn are erased on a 5-4-3 double play.
• Nootbaar singles on a line to center.
• Donovan has McCutchen played perfectly up the middle. Retires him 4-3 to end the top of the first.
• Reynolds retired 4-3.
• Cruz works the count full before looking at a fastball on the inner edge for strike three.
• First pitch: Pirates vs. Cardinals, 1:16 p.m. Eastern, Sonny Gray to Oneil Cruz, 68 degrees, sunny
• Lineup change for the Cardinals: Arenado has been scratched and Nolan Gorman will now play third base and bat sixth.
• Derek Shelton's starting nine:
1. Oneil Cruz, CF
2. Bryan Reynolds, RF
3. Andrew McCutchen, DH
4. Joey Bart, C
5. Enmanuel Valdez, 1B
6. Ke'Bryan Hayes, 3B
7. Adam Frazier, 2B
8. Tommy Pham, LF
9. Liover Peguero, SS
• Oliver Marmol's lineup:
1. Lars Nootbaar, LF
2. Masyn Winn, SS
3. Brendan Donovan, 2B
4. Nolan Arenado, 3B
5. Willson Contreras, 1B
6. Alec Burleson, DH
7. Jordan Walker, RF
8. Pedro Pages, C
9. Victor Scott II, CF
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