Tampa Bay Rays at St. Louis Cardinals

· Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay Rays

0-1, 0-1 Away

Final
7 - 9

St. Louis Cardinals

1-0, 1-0 Home

Alec Burleson's 2-run HR leads Cardinals' 9-7 rally over Rays

Tampa Bay Rays vs. St. Louis Cardinals: Game Highlights

Rookie JJ Wetherholt also homered for St. Louis.

Jonathan Aranda homered for Tampa Bay, which took a 7-1 lead with six runs in the top of the sixth.

St. Louis answered back with eight runs in its half including run-scoring sacrifice flies by Wetherholt and Ivan Herrera, which tied the game 7-all.

Burleson followed with a blast to right field.

Both teams sent 11 batters to the plate in the inning.

Jonny DeLuca had a two-run single to highlight the sixth inning for Tampa Bay, which had won four of its previous five games on opening day.

Riley O’Brien picked up the win with 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Ryne Stanek earned the save. He struck out Richie Palacios with the bases loaded to end the game.

St. Louis outfielder Nathan Church added a two-run hit in the sixth. Church, Burleson and Victor Scott II had three hits each.

Yandy Díaz, Ben Williamson and Nick Fortes had three hits each for the Rays.

Tampa Bay starter Drew Rasmussen allowed just one run on four hits over five innings in his first opening day assignment.

Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore surrendered one run on seven hits in five innings.

The Cardinals are in rebuilding mode after trading veterans Sonny Gray, Brendan Donovan, Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras in the offseason for prospects.

The game time temperature of 91 degrees was the hottest opening day in the history of Busch Stadium, eclipsing the previous mark of 73 degrees on April 5, 1999.

Up next After a day off on Friday, Tampa Bay RH Joe Boyle (1-0, 3. 52 ERA last season) will face RHP Michael McGreevy (8-4, 4.42) in the second game of the three-game set on Saturday,

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Palacios struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Caminero walked, Aranda to second, Díaz to third.
	9th Inning	Aranda walked, Díaz to second.
	9th Inning	Simpson lined out to left.
	9th Inning	Díaz walked.
	9th Inning	Williams popped out to first.

Statistics

TB		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
18	Ground Balls	16
5	Strikeouts	3
7	Runs Batted In	9
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
17	Hits	14
0	Stolen Bases	2
6	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	9
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	2
43	At Bats	37
1	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
26	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	1
0	Doubles	2
21	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	0
168	Pitches	145
0	Games Started	0
4	Pinch At Bats	0
2	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
20	Total Bases	22
50	Plate Appearances	40
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
1	Extra Base Hits	4
9.6	Runs Created	8.2
.395	Batting Average	.378
.500	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.465	Slugging Percentage	.595
.209	Secondary Average	.297
.460	On Base Percentage	.375
.925	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.970
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
9.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.5
48.0	Batter Rating	62.0
43.0	At Bats Per Home Run	18.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.36	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.63
.070	Isolated Power	.216
1.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.120	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.025
-.186	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.081
14.0	Runs Produced	18.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.4
104.0	MLB Rating	107.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0