St. Louis Cardinals at Kansas City Royals

· Major League Baseball

St. Louis Cardinals

25-20, 10-14 Away

Final
10 - 3

Kansas City Royals

25-21, 16-8 Home

Herrera drives in 4, Pallante works 7 strong innings as Cardinals beat Royals 10-3

Willson Contreras doubled twice and drove in a run for the Cardinals, who have won 11 of 12. The Royals have dropped five of six since a seven-game winning streak.

Contreras doubled and scored on a two-out wild pitch by Cole Ragans (2-3) in the second. Brendan Donovan doubled leading off the fourth and scored on a one-out double by Contreras for a two-run lead. Herrera singled in Contreras to make it 3-0.

Vinnie Pasquantino homered in the fourth against Pallante (4-2). Kyle Isbel tripled in the fifth and scored on a balk.

Pallante threw 100 pitches. He gave up seven hits, struck out four and walked none.

Ragans surrendered four runs on five hits in five innings with seven strikeouts. Four Kansas City relievers combined to allow six runs on eight hits.

Herrera doubled and scored on an infield single by Jordan Walker in the eighth.

Key moment Ragans departed after a leadoff single by Masyn Winn in the sixth, and Brendan Donovan greeted John Schreiber with a single. Contreras reached on an error by second baseman Jonathan India. Herrera cleared the bases with a double before scoring on a single by Pedro Pagés.

Key stat The Cardinals lead the all-time series 80-56, including a 49-26 record at Kauffman Stadium.

Up next RHP Miles Mikolas (2-2, 4.35 ERA) starts Saturday for the Cardinals. The Royals hadn't named a starter after RHP Seth Lugo (3-4, 3.02) had his start pushed back with right middle finger inflammation.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Isbel struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Waters flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Biggio lined out to center.
	9th Inning	Contreras grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Donovan out at second.
	9th Inning	Arenado hit sacrifice fly to center, Winn scored.
	9th Inning	Donovan singled to right, Nootbaar scored, Winn to third.

Statistics

STL		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	17
8	Strikeouts	6
9	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
13	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	1
1	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
10	Runs	3
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
39	At Bats	36
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	13
0	Triples	2
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
5	Doubles	2
18	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
166	Pitches	136
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
18	Total Bases	18
41	Plate Appearances	36
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
5	Extra Base Hits	5
5.8	Runs Created	4.8
.333	Batting Average	.250
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.462	Slugging Percentage	.500
.154	Secondary Average	.278
.341	On Base Percentage	.250
.803	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.750
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.3
5.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.8
61.0	Batter Rating	32.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	36.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.05	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.78
.128	Isolated Power	.250
0.13	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.024	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
-.179	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.028
19.0	Runs Produced	5.0
0.9	Runs Ratio	0.7
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.3
101.0	MLB Rating	83.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0