St. Louis Cardinals at Washington Nationals

· Major League Baseball

St. Louis Cardinals

22-19, 7-13 Away

Final
6 - 1

Washington Nationals

17-24, 10-12 Home

Nootbaar, Contreras and Arenado homer as Cardinals beat Nationals 6-1 for 3-game sweep

Dylan Crews make a spectacular diving catch

The Cardinals have swept back-to-back series during an eight-game winning streak, their longest since August of 2022.

Miles Mikolas (2-2) allowed one run on four hits over 5 1/3 innings with five strikeouts and one walk. All five of his career wins against Washington have come at Nationals Park.

Nootbaar cranked his sixth homer of the season and seventh leadoff homer of his career well into the second deck in right field on the fifth pitch from MacKenzie Gore (2-4).

Contreras launched a 406-foot blast over the center field wall to begin the second, his sixth of the season. He is hitting .615 (8 for 13) against Gore with two doubles, a homer and three RBI.

Arenado’s two-run shot in eighth was his fourth of the year.

Gore lasted 6 2/3 innings, allowing four runs, striking out seven and walking three on 101 pitches, 62 for strikes. He leads the majors with 75 strikeouts.

Nathaniel Lowe hit his seventh homer for the Nationals, who have lost five straight.

Key moment Gore struck out Iván Herrera to end the fourth to match Mark Langston’s franchise record for most punchouts by a left-hander in first nine starts (71 in 1989). Max Scherzer holds the franchise record with 91 strikeouts in his first nine starts in 2018.

Key stat The Cardinals have not lost since since May 2, outscoring their last two opponents 33-7.

Up next Cardinals: LHP Matthew Liberatore (3-3, 3.07 ERA) opens the three-game series at Philadelphia Monday against LHP Cristopher Sánchez (4-1, 2.89).

Nationals: RHP Jake Irvin (2-1, 3.94) begins their seven-game road trip at Atlanta Monday night versus RHP Grant Holmes (2-3, 4.58)

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Bell struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Lowe grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Wood grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	King relieved Maton
	9th Inning	Donovan flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Winn walked.

Statistics

STL		WSH
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
9	Ground Balls	10
10	Strikeouts	8
6	Runs Batted In	1
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
9	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	0
5	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	1
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	29
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
15	Fly Balls	12
1	Caught Stealing	0
149	Pitches	116
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
19	Total Bases	9
39	Plate Appearances	32
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	2
6.1	Runs Created	1.6
.265	Batting Average	.172
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.559	Slugging Percentage	.310
.412	Secondary Average	.207
.359	On Base Percentage	.226
.918	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.536
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
6.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.7
44.0	Batter Rating	14.0
11.3	At Bats Per Home Run	29.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.82	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.63
.294	Isolated Power	.138
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.25
.128	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.063
.147	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.034
12.0	Runs Produced	2.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
91.3	MLB Rating	67.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0