Houston Astros at St. Louis Cardinals

· Major League Baseball

Houston Astros

7-9, 3-4 Away

Final
3 - 8

St. Louis Cardinals

8-8, 7-3 Home

Arenado and Donovan help the Cardinals beat the Astros 8-3

Arenado also doubled twice and scored two runs in the opener of a three-game series. Donovan extended his hitting streak to 10 games.

Gray (3-0) pitched seven scoreless innings. He allowed three hits, struck out four and walked one.

The Cardinals have won Gray's last eight home starts dating to last season.

Astros left-hander Framber Valdez (1-2) was tagged for seven runs — six earned — in four-plus innings. Five of the 10 hits he allowed were doubles.

Arenado hit a solo drive off Luis Contreras in the eighth. It was his second homer of the season.

The Cardinals broke it open with three runs in the fourth and three more in the fifth.

Pedro Pagés hit a two-run double to make it 3-0 in the fourth. Nolan Gorman's sacrifice fly extended the lead to 7-0 in the fifth.

Donovan scored twice and drove in a run. He is batting an NL-high .391.

Houston's Jeremy Peña hit a three-run homer off Roddery Muñoz with two outs in the ninth.

Key moment Arenado drove in the first run in the fifth. He fouled off four straight offerings in a 10-pitch at-bat before ripping an RBI double to left.

Key stat Gray set the tone when he retired Jose Altuve, Isaac Paredes and Yordan Alvarez in order in the first inning. The Astros’ only hit off Gray through five was catcher Yainer Diaz’s infield single in the second.

Up next Astros right-hander Hunter Brown (1-1, 2.00 ERA) starts on Tuesday night. Right-hander Erick Fedde (1-1, 4.50 ERA) makes his fourth start for the Cardinals.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Smith grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Peña homered to left center (407 feet), Meyers scored and Dezenzo scored.
	9th Inning	Diaz struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Dezenzo to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Dezenzo singled to right, Meyers to third.
	9th Inning	Meyers to second on fielder's indifference.

Statistics

HOU		STL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	14
5	Strikeouts	8
3	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	14
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	8
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
32	At Bats	36
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	21
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	6
13	Fly Balls	15
1	Caught Stealing	0
131	Pitches	151
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
11	Total Bases	23
34	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	7
2.2	Runs Created	8.7
.219	Batting Average	.389
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.344	Slugging Percentage	.639
.156	Secondary Average	.333
.265	On Base Percentage	.410
.608	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.049
1.1	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
2.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	9.7
24.0	Batter Rating	62.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	36.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.85	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.87
.125	Isolated Power	.250
0.40	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.25
.059	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.051
-.063	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.056
6.0	Runs Produced	16.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.5
75.8	MLB Rating	105.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0