St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs

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St. Louis Cardinals

61-61, 29-27 Away

Final
0 - 3

Chicago Cubs

72-51, 36-24 Home

Clay Holmes shines in his 1st home start, Seiya Suzuki hits 3-run homer as Cubs beat Cardinals 3-0

Making his second start and first at Wrigley Field since being acquired from the New York Mets at the trade deadline, Holmes (5-5) retired his first 16 batters before José Fermin singled in the sixth.

Holmes, who missed three months with a broken right fibula before the trade, struck out three, walked one and allowed one hit in 6 2/3 innings, exiting to a standing ovation. Ryan Rolison, Ryan Zeferjahn and Jacob Webb followed, with Webb pitching the ninth for his ninth save.

For the first five innings, Matthew Liberatore (5-10) was just as good as Holmes. He set down his first 13 batters before Nico Hoerner singled in the fifth.

Liberatore ran into trouble in the sixth, allowing the first two batters to reach before retiring Pete Crow-Armstrong on a foul popup and yielding to George Soriano.

Suzuki hit Soriano's fourth pitch, a 2-1 changeup, an estimated 390 feet to left for his 21st homer. He also doubled in the eighth, the only player with multiple hits.

The Cubs (72-51), who have won 9 of 11, are chasing the major league-best Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Central and have a comfortable lead atop the NL wild-card standings. The Cardinals (61-61) fell 3 1/2 games behind idle Philadelphia for the final NL wild card.

The rivals split their previous 10 meetings this season. Friday's game was the opener of a season-long 11-game, 10-day trip for the Cardinals.

Up next Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (4-9, 3.64 ERA) faces Cubs LHP Matthew Boyd (8-1, 3.50) on Saturday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Church lined out to second.
	9th Inning	Burleson to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Walker struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Burleson grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Herrera out at second.
	9th Inning	Herrera singled to left.
	9th Inning	Webb relieved Zeferjahn

Statistics

STL		CHC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	9
6	Strikeouts	6
0	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
3	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	3
2	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	29
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
11	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
131	Pitches	148
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
3	Total Bases	10
32	Plate Appearances	32
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
0	Extra Base Hits	2
-0.6	Runs Created	3.2
.100	Batting Average	.207
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.100	Slugging Percentage	.345
.067	Secondary Average	.345
.156	On Base Percentage	.281
.256	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.626
1.2	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
-0.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.5
3.0	Batter Rating	26.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	29.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.63
.000	Isolated Power	.138
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.063	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.094
-.033	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.138
0.0	Runs Produced	6.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.2
57.3	MLB Rating	75.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0

Game Information

Wrigley Field

Location: Chicago, Illinois
Attendance: 40,374 | Capacity:

2026 National League Central Standings

TEAM	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Milwaukee	-	59	L1	0.6242038	98
Chicago	11	70	L1	0.55414015	87
Pittsburgh	18	77	W5	0.50955415	80
St. Louis	22	81	L1	0.48407644	76
Cincinnati	25	84	W1	0.46496814	73

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