Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals

· Major League Baseball

Philadelphia Phillies

9-6, 4-5 Away

Final
0 - 7

St. Louis Cardinals

7-8, 6-3 Home

Matthew Liberatore pitches 6 shutout innings to help Cardinals top Phillies 7-0

Liberatore (1-1) allowed three hits, walked one and matched his season high with seven strikeouts.

Phil Maton, JoJo Romero and Kyle Leahy each pitched a scoreless inning for the Cardinals, who got their second shutout of the season after blanking the Phillies on Friday night.

Zack Wheeler (1-1) allowed four runs and seven hits with a walk and three strikeouts in six innings.

Contreras hit his first homer of the season to left field off Wheeler in the fourth inning to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead. Contreras had not homered in his previous 25 games dating to Aug. 10, 2024.

Brendan Donovan, Nolan Arenado and Nolan Gorman each doubled down the left field line in the sixth to expand the Cardinals’ lead to 4-0.

Walker hit his second home run of the season to left field in the top of the seventh to put St. Louis ahead 7-0.

Key moment Philadelphia had runners on second and third base with one out in the top of the second after Edmundo Sosa hit a one-out single and advanced to second on St. Louis’ failed attempt to throw out J.T. Realmuto at third. Liberatore then struck out Brandon Marsh and induced a weak groundout from Johan Rojas to escape the jam.

Key stat St. Louis won its first series against Philadelphia since June 20-22, 2017. The Cardinals had gone 0-9-3 in their last 12 series against the Phillies.

Up next Phillies: RHP Taijuan Walker (1-0, 0.00 ERA) faces San Francisco Giants RHP Landen Roupp (0-1, 3.60 ERA) to open a seven-game homestand Monday night.

Cardinals: Host Houston on Monday night when RHP Sonny Gray (2-0, 4.50 ERA) will oppose Astros LHP Framber Valdez (1-1, 2.50 ERA) to open a three-game series.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Clemens grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Clemens hit for Castellanos
	9th Inning	Schwarber grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Harper grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Leahy relieved Romero
	8th Inning	Pozo lined out to shortstop.

Statistics

PHI		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	8
9	Strikeouts	6
0	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
3	Hits	10
1	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
0	Runs	7
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	33
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
8	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	5
12	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	1
114	Pitches	123
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
3	Total Bases	21
31	Plate Appearances	35
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
0	Extra Base Hits	7
-0.7	Runs Created	6.3
.100	Batting Average	.303
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.100	Slugging Percentage	.636
.067	Secondary Average	.333
.129	On Base Percentage	.324
.229	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.960
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
-0.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.8
4.0	Batter Rating	52.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	16.5
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.68	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.51
.000	Isolated Power	.333
0.11	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.17
.032	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.029
-.033	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.030
0.0	Runs Produced	13.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.1	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
56.5	MLB Rating	96.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0