St. Louis Cardinals at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

St. Louis Cardinals

33-25, 14-17 Away

Final
2 - 0

Texas Rangers

28-31, 19-13 Home

Sonny Gray strikes out 10 in the Cardinals' 2-0 victory over the the Rangers

St. Louis Cardinals vs. Texas Rangers: Game Highlights

Gray's 19th game with double-digit strikeouts made the 35-year-old right-hander in his 13th big league season the 10th active pitcher with 1,800 career strikeouts. Gray (6-1) threw 64 of 91 pitches for strikes and had only one walk.

Ryan Helsley worked the ninth for his 13th save in 15 chances to wrap up the Cardinals' seventh shutout of the season. Phil Maton pitched the eighth.

The Cardinals went ahead to stay by manufacturing a run without a hit after the second inning nearly started with a home run.

Contreras led off with a towering flyball near the left-field pole that prompted a crew chief review to determine it was foul as initially called. He then walked, advanced on a wild pitch by Patrick Corbin (3-4), got to third on a groundout and scored on Nolan Arenado's sacrifice fly.

Maysn Winn led of the Cardinals fourth with a double and went home on a ground-rule double by Contreras, a ball that hit just fair down the left-field line and bounced into the seats.

Corbin allowed two runs on three hits and two walks over 5 1/3 innings.

Texas, after an 11-1 win Friday night, was shut out for the eighth time.

Key moment Cardinals second baseman Brendan Donovan's nifty play in the ninth inning to throw out speedy No. 3 hitter Wyatt Langford for the second out around two strikeouts by Helsley.

Key stat The Cardinals finished with a 19-8 record in May, their best record in that month since 20-7 in 2013, their last World Series season.

Up next Jacob deGrom (4-2, 2.42 ERA), who has allowed two runs over fewer in each of his last eight starts, pitches the series finale for Texas on Sunday. Eric Fedde (3-4) goes for the Cardinals.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Jung struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Langford grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Seager struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Helsley relieved Maton
	9th Inning	Barrero in right field.
	9th Inning	Scott II flied out to center.

Statistics

STL		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
15	Ground Balls	9
5	Strikeouts	12
2	Runs Batted In	0
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	4
0	Stolen Bases	1
4	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	0
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	29
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	9
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	0
12	Fly Balls	8
0	Caught Stealing	1
143	Pitches	124
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
7	Total Bases	4
36	Plate Appearances	31
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	0
1.9	Runs Created	-0.4
.161	Batting Average	.138
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.226	Slugging Percentage	.138
.194	Secondary Average	.069
.250	On Base Percentage	.194
.476	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.331
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.1
1.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	-0.4
17.0	Batter Rating	5.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
3.97	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.00
.065	Isolated Power	.000
0.80	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.17
.111	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.065
.032	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.069
4.0	Runs Produced	0.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.2
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
68.5	MLB Rating	58.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0