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Cardinals second baseman Nolan Gorman, left, celebrates with designated hitter Matt Carpenter after hitting a grand slam against the Pirates on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH — The Cardinals scored their first six runs of the game on a pair of home runs, including a grand slam from recently struggling slugger Nolan Gorman, and held off a push from the Pittsburgh Pirates to start their road trip with a win.
Alec Burleson and Gorman bashed home runs to give the Cardinals a six-run lead after four innings, and they withstood a fifth-inning rally to secure a 7-4 win against their National League Central Division rivals in the first game of a three-game series at PNC Park on Tuesday night.
Gorman went 2 for 4 with four RBIs, while Burleson went 2 for 5 with two RBIs as the Cardinals improved to 44-40.
Left fielder Brendan Donovan went 3 for 4 with a walk and an RBI, and he has raised his batting average to .270 for the season. First baseman Paul Goldschmidt (2 for 5) also had a multi-hit game with a pair of doubles and a run scored.
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Cardinals starting pitcher Kyle Gibson struck out eight in five innings, including five of the first six outs he recorded, in the win. He ran into a speed bump in the fifth inning, and he gave up four runs on two home runs.
The teams combined to hit four home runs in the game.
Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley pitched a scoreless ninth inning and earned his MLB-leading 31st save of the season, his 31st consecutive converted save chance.
Helsley broke a tie with Lee Smith and set a franchise record for the most saves before the All-Star break. Smith, a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, recorded 30 saves before the break in 1993.
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St. Louis Cardinals' Alec Burleson (41) celebrates with teammates in the dugout following his two-run home run against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
Cardinals get to Keller 2nd time through
Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller (9-5) entered the day among the NL leaders in wins (nine, tied for third), innings (98⅓, tied for eighth) and home runs per nine innings (0.73, ninth).
Keller was saddled with one of his previous four losses this season against the Cardinals on June 13 at Busch Stadium. He allowed four runs on eight hits, including two home runs, in six innings in a 4-3 Cardinals victory that night.
On Tuesday, Keller held the Cardinals to just one hit the first time through the lineup. Through the first nine batters he faced, Keller hit Willson Contreras with a pitch and gave up a single to Donovan.
The second time through the lineup proved much more damaging for Keller.
The first batter to face Keller for a second time, leadoff hitter Masyn Winn, doubled down the right field line. Burleson followed with a two-run home run that gave the Cardinals a two-run lead in the third inning. The home run gave Burleson 13 this season.
In the fourth inning, Donovan smacked a leadoff single up the middle, Nolan Arenado reached on catcher’s interference and Matt Carpenter blooped a single into left field that loaded the bases with no outs.
Gorman, who’d been 2 for his past 30, mashed a 1-2 sweeper from Keller an estimated 415 feet to left-center field for his second career grand slam. Gorman’s 17th home run of the season gave the Cardinals a 6-0 advantage.
All six runs against Keller came in the second time facing the Cardinals lineup. He exited the game after the fifth. Keller allowed nine hits, including five extra-base hits.
Josh Fleming, a native of Bridgeton, Missouri, was the first reliever in out of the bullpen for the Pirates. Fleming attended Columbia (Illinois) High School and Webster University.
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St. Louis Cardinals Kyle Gibson (44) pitches against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
Kyle begins with K
Gibson gave up four runs on five hits and one walk in five innings.
Gibson’s previous start lasted just four innings against the Atlanta Braves on June 26. That matched his shortest outing of the season — he pitched four innings in a rain-shortened start against the Baltimore Orioles — and he walked a season-high five batters against the Braves.
Gibson started Tuesday’s outing with five strikeouts in his first two innings. He also struck out the side in the fourth inning and pushed his total to eight for the game. He finished one strikeout shy of his season high of nine against the Detroit Tigers on April 30.
However, the Pirates cut into their six-run deficit in the fifth inning with Gibson on the mound. A slow roller off the end of the bat by Rowdy Tellez went for a leadoff single. Nick Gonzales singled to put two men on base, and Jack Suwinski belted a one-out, three-run home run. Suwinski, a left-handed hitter, hit a 3-2 fastball on the inner half of the plate and in the bottom third of the zone an estimated 448 feet to right-center field.
Suwinski’s swing cut the lead in half. With two outs in the fifth, Andrew McCutchen hit a solo home run to center field and made the score 6-4. McCutchen’s home run was his 12th of the season and matched his 2023 season total.
The Cardinals bullpen took over after the fifth inning.
Insurance run, stingy bullpen
After the Pirates (40-44) pulled within two runs in the fifth inning, the Cardinals tacked on a run in the seventh inning thanks to Goldschmidt’s second double of the day and an RBI single by Donovan, his third single of the game, against Pirates reliever Luis Ortiz.
The insurance run, the first Cardinals run in the game that did not score on a home run, gave them a 7-4 lead.
The Cardinals bullpen contingent of John King (⅔ inning), Ryan Fernandez (1⅓ innings) and JoJo Romero (one inning) held the Pirates without a run for three innings and handed a three-run lead to Helsley in the ninth.
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St. Louis Cardinals' Alec Burleson (41) celebrates with teammates in the dugout following his two-run home run against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Jack Suwinski (65) reacts after hitting a three-run home run against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Oneil Cruz (15) reacts after striking out against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Andrew McCutchen (22) hits a solo home run against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Mitch Keller (23) pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton looks on against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Andrew McCutchen (22) reacts after hitting a solo home run against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates fans cheer against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Cardinals second baseman Nolan Gorman, left, celebrates with designated hitter Matt Carpenter after hitting a grand slam against the Pirates on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, in Pittsburgh.
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St. Louis Cardinals Kyle Gibson (44) pitches against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Mitch Keller (23) pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Mitch Keller (23) pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Mitch Keller (23) look out from the dugout against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates fans cheer against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Dennis Santana (60) pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Dennis Santana (60) pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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St. Louis Cardinals Ryan Helsley (56) pitches against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Oneil Cruz (15) throws to first base against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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St. Louis Cardinals Michael Siani (63) catches a fly ball against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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St. Louis Cardinals JoJo Romero (59) pitches against the Pittsburgh Pirates during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
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Pittsburgh Pirates Luis Ortiz (48) pitches against the St. Louis Cardinals during a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.