PITTSBURGH — Nolan Gorman knew that one way or another, he’d added to the Cardinals run total. With the funk he’d been in at the plate of late, Gorman would’ve taken some measure of solace from a sacrifice fly.
When he launched a ball to the deepest part of PNC Park with the bases loaded on Tuesday night, Gorman had just finished a 2-for-30 stretch at the plate. The previous four weeks were a grind for Gorman, the left-handed hitting slugger.
With one well timed and deftly synchronized swing, Gorman delivered four runs on a 415-foot blast to left-center field — where the wall juts out to 410 feet — and notched the second grand slam of his major-league career. He turned around a two-strike sweeper from Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller and sent it into the stands to put the Cardinals on their way to a 7-4 win in the series opener of a three-game set.
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“I put the barrel on the ball,” Gorman said. “So whatever happened there in that situation with the bases loaded and not outs, I got a job done. I’m just glad it went over the fence too. That helped.”
Gorman went 2 for 4 with a single to go along with his 17th home run of the season. The grand slam gave the Cardinals (44-40) a 6-0 lead in the fourth inning.
It put Keller, the leader of the Pirates’ rotation, temporarily on his heels and gave Cardinals starting pitcher Kyle Gibson maneuvering room that he didn’t know he needed.
The Cardinals entered the night scoring an average of 3.95 runs per game, and Keller entered with a 3.20 ERA. The Pirates’ right-hander and opening day starting pitcher, Keller held the Cardinals to two base runners the first time through the lineup. He hit Willson Contreras with a pitch and gave up a single to Brendan Donovan (3 for 4).
The second time through the lineup, the Cardinals scored more runs than Keller had given up in any outing this season. In his second at-bat of the day, rookie shortstop Masyn Winn doubled down the right field line with one out in the third inning. Then Alec Burleson smacked a two-run home run into the right field stands.
The Cardinals carried that 2-0 lead into the fourth inning.
Donovan smacked a leadoff single up the middle to start the fourth, then Nolan Arenado reached on catcher’s interference and Matt Carpenter blooped a single into left field. That brought Gorman to the plate with the bases loaded and no outs.
Last season, Gorman’s 27 home runs led the Cardinals and were the third highest single-season total by a primary second baseman in franchise history behind Rogers Hornsby’s 42 homers in 1922 and Hornsby’s 39 homers in 1925.
However, something had gone awry with Gorman’s wing in recent weeks. In 93 plate appearances (84 at-bats) from June 5-June 30, Gorman had gone 7 for 84 with a .083 batting average and 37 strikeouts.
That’s why Gorman would have taken satisfaction from squaring up the baseball with the bat and driving it deep to the middle of the field even if it were just a sacrifice fly.
Though he made sure to add that “the work has got to continue.”
Gorman has been working with the Cardinals hitting coaches to fix his swing mechanics, including pregame work he’d done earlier in the day before batting practice.
“I think anybody going through the failure that we go through, it would be tough,” Gorman said of handling his recent struggles. “But I think we all know that this is a game. We love to play it, and there’s always another day to play this game. So you can’t put too much on yourself and beat yourself up. You’ve got to go out there and compete again for another nine innings against a professional team, so you’ve got to turn the page real quick.”
Keller (9-5) lasted just one more inning, and he finished the day having allowed six runs (five earned) on nine hits in five innings.
“That’s one thing we need to continue to do a better job of is not letting these starters off the hook,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “Today, that was huge. Burleson gets that homer, and then we get the bases loaded and Gorman comes through there. Really nice job by him.
"(Paul Goldschmidt) is starting to swing a really good bat as well. He’s staying on the ball. We saw some good swings out of him, Donovan.”
Marmol, the youngest manager in Major League Baseball, turned 38 on Tuesday. The Cardinals improved to 3-0 on his birthday since he became manager prior to the 2022 season.
The runs scored on Gorman’s grand slam proved vital to the Cardinals’ win.
Gibson (6-3) 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 four runs in the fifth inning. A slow roller off the end of the bat by Rowdy Tellez trickled onto the infield grass for a leadoff single. Nick Gonzales singled on a line drive to left field, and that put two men on base.
Then Jack Suwinski belted a fastball on the inner half of the plate for a one-out, three-run home run. That cut the Cardinals' six-run lead in half. With two outs in the inning, Andrew McCutchen hit a solo home run to center field and made the score 6-4.
“Being realistic, they put two good swings on it,” Gibson said. “That’s what big league hitters will do. I left both those pitches in sports where they can hit them well. Cutch did a good job and so did Suwinski. It’s frustrating, obviously, that two-hard hit balls is what does you in for four runs.
"But other than that, I felt good. So a lot of good things to build on. A lot of things to be realistic about and understand that the four runs probably doesn’t show quite how I threw. I would’ve like to get deeper in that game. That’s for sure.”
The Cardinals had five extra-base hits against Keller, including the two home runs. The Pirates (40-44) had just two extra-base hits, their two homers, and all of their runs scored on those two big swings.
Gorman’s four-run blast kept the Cardinals in the lead despite the Pirates’ home runs.
“That’s a big-time job for the pitching staff when they do that,” Gibson said of the Cardinals offense adding on runs. “It really allows us to go out there and attack and, unfortunately, give up four runs and still feel really confident that you’re going to win the game. Right? Then to add on there as well (in the seventh), just gives the bullpen breathing room.
“We know that we’ve got a good offense. We know that we have a lot of professional hitters that put together really good at-bats. Even Gorman, I know he’s going through it, and it’s been tough. But what a day for him to stay with it. He’s just got to stay confident, stay in his swing and understand that when he puts good swings on the pitches that he can hit — that’s what he can do.”
The Cardinals added a final insurance run in the seventh inning when Goldschmidt (2 for 5) hit his second double of the day and scored on Donovan’s third single of the game, a line drive over the infield and into shallow right field.
Prior to Tuesday’s game, Marmol proclaimed his confidence in Gorman’s ability to get his swing back on track and be a big factor in the second half of the season for the Cardinals offense.
Following the game, Marmol doubled down on that sentiment.
“I trust this guy a lot,” Marmol said. “I love his demeanor. I love the way he goes about his business. To his credit, you walk in and you can’t tell if he’s been 0-for4 or 4-for-4. He has been very consistent during this stretch that has not been easy. You pull for guys like that.
"This is a guy we trust, and he’s going to come up big in this second half for us. Hopefully, this is the start of it.”
Following his first two-hit game since June 4, Gorman was asked whether he felt he may have found something at the plate or whether it was too soon to make that declaration.
“I definitely think it could be the start to something,” Gorman said. “I think that I made some strides, definitely, today. With just loading and getting in a better position to hit. So yeah, I think I’m going in the right direction right now.”
Cardinals shortstop Masyn Winn speaks with the media on Sunday, June 30, 2024, after a win vs. the Reds at Busch Stadium. (Video by Ethan Erickson, Post-Dispatch)
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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.