St. Louis Cardinals at Houston Astros

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St. Louis Cardinals

12-8, 5-3 Away

Final
7 - 5

Houston Astros

8-14, 7-5 Home

Cardinals slug 3 homers to beat the Astros 7-5 and extend winning streak to 4 games

Winn’s homer made it 4-1 in the third and the second home run of Fermín’s career pushed the lead to 5-1 in the sixth. Burleson’s shot to the second deck in right field in the seventh made it 6-1.

Yordan Alvarez hit his major league-leading ninth homer in the first inning and Shay Whitcomb hit a three-run homer in the ninth, but it wasn't enough to keep the Astros from losing for the 11th time in 13 games.

Jordan Walker singled in the fifth inning to extend his hitting streak to 13 games and Nolan Gorman had two hits and two RBI to help the Cardinals to their fourth straight victory.

Andre Pallante (2-1) allowed three hits and a run with a season-high five strikeouts in five innings to get the win for the Cardinals. Riley O'Brien got the last two outs of the game to get his sixth save.

Houston starter Lance McCullers Jr. (1-1) yielded four hits and four runs, walked three batters and hit two in five innings.

McCullers hit the first two batters with pitches before walking Walker with one out. Gorman hit a two RBI single on a grounder to right field to make it 2-0.

Alvarez cut the lead to 2-1 with his home run to center field with one out in the first.

Gorman singled with one out in the third before Winn’s home run to left field made it 4-1.

Fermín connected off Colton Gordon with one out in the sixth on his shot to the seats in left field to push the lead to 5-1.

Up Next St. Louis LHP Matthew Liberatore (0-1, 4.29 ERA) opposes RHP Mike Burrows (1-3, 6.55) in the series finale Sunday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Alvarez struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Altuve grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	O'Brien relieved Soriano
	9th Inning	Whitcomb homered to center (407 feet), Smith scored and Vázquez scored.
	9th Inning	Vázquez walked, Smith to second.
	9th Inning	Smith walked.

Statistics

STL		HOU
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	13
11	Strikeouts	9
6	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	4
1	Stolen Bases	1
4	Walks	8
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	30
3	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
20	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	8
0	Caught Stealing	0
171	Pitches	161
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
21	Total Bases	11
42	Plate Appearances	38
486.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
5	Extra Base Hits	3
7.8	Runs Created	3.9
.278	Batting Average	.133
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.583	Slugging Percentage	.367
.444	Secondary Average	.533
.381	On Base Percentage	.316
.964	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.682
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.6
7.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.9
50.0	Batter Rating	31.0
12.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.07	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.24
.306	Isolated Power	.233
0.36	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.89
.095	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.211
.167	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.400
13.0	Runs Produced	9.0
0.9	Runs Ratio	0.8
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.1
95.5	MLB Rating	76.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0