St. Louis Cardinals at Tampa Bay Rays

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St. Louis Cardinals

64-66, 29-36 Away

Final
6 - 10

Tampa Bay Rays

62-67, 33-33 Home

Carson Williams homers in his big league debut as Rays beat Cardinals 10-6

Williams' drive to center in the seventh inning made it 9-6 and set off a raucous celebration by his family in the stands. He also had an RBI infield single in the third. The 22-year-old shortstop was the Rays' top-rated prospect when he was called up on Thursday.

Brandon Lowe and Tristan Gray also homered for the Rays, and Jake Mangum had three hits and two RBI.

Rookie Nathan Church hit a two-run homer for the Cardinals in the seventh for his first career hit. Willson Contreras hit a two-run drive later in the inning to get St. Louis within 7-6.

Williams reached on a second-inning throwing error by Cardinals third baseman Nolan Gorman, who has five errors this month. The rookie's first hit came on a grounder that Gorman couldn't handle.

Adrian Houser (7-4) allowed four runs over 6 1/3 innings for the Rays. The Cardinals' Miles Mikolas (6-10) gave up 10 hits and five runs (four earned) in 2 2/3 innings.

Lowe's homer off Mikolas was his 25th, and Gray's was his first.

Key moment Williams was picked off after his infield hit in the third that made it 4-1, but Bob Seymour followed with an RBI single and Gray walked to end Mikolas' night.

Key stat Caminero's 36 homers rank sixth in the majors. The 22-year-old is playing his first full season.

Up next The teams get a rare Saturday off before concluding their series Sunday. Mathew Liberatore (6-10, 4.13 ERA) is slated to start for the Cardinals against the Rays' Ryan Pepiot (8-10, 3.95).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Contreras struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Herrera struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Nootbaar grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Fairbanks relieved Baker
	8th Inning	Pereira grounded into double play, third to second to first, Mangum out at second.
	8th Inning	Mangum singled to left, J. Lowe to third.

Statistics

STL		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
17	Ground Balls	19
6	Strikeouts	6
6	Runs Batted In	10
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	16
0	Stolen Bases	3
2	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	10
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	38
2	Home Runs	4
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	3
13	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	2
144	Pitches	149
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
16	Total Bases	31
39	Plate Appearances	42
324.0	Projected Home Runs	648.0
3	Extra Base Hits	7
5.1	Runs Created	12.0
.250	Batting Average	.421
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.444	Slugging Percentage	.816
.250	Secondary Average	.500
.308	On Base Percentage	.476
.752	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.292
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.5
5.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	13.0
41.0	Batter Rating	77.0
18.0	At Bats Per Home Run	9.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.60
3.69	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.55
.194	Isolated Power	.395
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.051	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.071
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.079
12.0	Runs Produced	20.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.9
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
88.5	MLB Rating	120.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0