St. Louis Cardinals at Houston Astros

· Major League Baseball

St. Louis Cardinals

11-8, 4-3 Away

Final
9 - 4

Houston Astros

8-13, 7-4 Home

Nolan Gorman, Iván Herrera power Cardinals past Astros, 9-4

St. Louis Cardinals vs. Houston Astros: Game Highlights

The Cardinals led by a run with one out in the seventh when Alec Burleson doubled off Bryan Abreu, and Jordan Walker walked. Gorman sent a fastball from Abreu into the seats in right field to make it 7-3.

Herrera, who had three RBI, connected off J.P. France with two outs in the eighth.

Masyn Winn drove in two runs and Walker extended his hitting streak to 12 games for the Cardinals, who extended their winning streak to three games.

Christian Vázquez, Yordan Alvarez and Jose Altuve all hit solo homers for Houston, but the Astros weren't able to get much else going offensively as they lost for the 10th time in 12 games.

The home run by Alvarez is his eighth this season, moving him into a tie for most in the majors with Walker and Aaron Judge.

St. Louis starter Kyle Leahy (2-2) yielded five hits and three runs with a season-high six strikeouts in five innings.

Houston’s Peter Lambert (0-1) allowed seven hits and four runs in five innings in his first major league start this season.

Walker put the Cardinals up early with an RBI single with one out in the first inning.

St. Louis loaded the bases with no outs in the third and Lambert struck out the next two batters before Winn’s single scored two to make it 3-0.

Vázquez opened Houston’s third with his home run before the two-out shot by Alvarez cut the lead to 3-2.

Herrera hit a two-out RBI single in the fourth to extend the lead to 4-2.

Altuve’s to left field got the Astros within 1 in the fifth inning.

Up next Houston RHP Lance McCullers Jr. (1-0, 5.87 ERA) opposes RHP Andre Pallante (1-1, 4.80) on Saturday night.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Correa flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Alvarez grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Altuve struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Soriano relieved Stanek
	9th Inning	Winn flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Gorman flied out to center.

Statistics

STL		HOU
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	11
9	Strikeouts	10
9	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	8
1	Stolen Bases	0
4	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	1
9	Runs	4
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	36
2	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
20	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	15
0	Caught Stealing	0
160	Pitches	145
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
18	Total Bases	18
42	Plate Appearances	39
324.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
4	Extra Base Hits	4
6.9	Runs Created	4.9
.278	Batting Average	.222
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.500	Slugging Percentage	.500
.361	Secondary Average	.333
.381	On Base Percentage	.263
.881	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.763
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
6.9	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.7
57.0	Batter Rating	35.0
18.0	At Bats Per Home Run	12.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.81	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.72
.222	Isolated Power	.278
0.44	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.095	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.051
.083	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.111
18.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
98.0	MLB Rating	84.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0