June 12, 2025; Milvauki, Visconsin, USA; St. Louis Cardinals Pitcher Sunny Gray (54) during the game against Millvauki Breves in the American family area. Compulsory Credit: Jeff Hanish-Imagon Picture After his best start in a decade, St. Louis Cardinals Ace Sunny Gray will try to give another quality effort when he will face host Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday afternoon.
The right-handed Mitch Keller of Gray Pirates will oppose Keller, who will try to help Pittsburgh to increase the line-winning streak in six matches.
Gray (8-2, 3.36 ERA) threw a one-right shutout on the mound last time, causing Cardinals to win a 5–0 road over Cleveland Guardians on Friday.
The 35 -year -old right -handed batsman threw 89 pitches and excluded 11, allowing only a fifth innings when he threw 4/3 correct innings. This was his first nine-inning full game since August 7, 2015, and his first shutout since July 28, 2015.
Gray said, “I knew that innings were going on and I knew that I was perfect (in the fifth) and I made a good pitch when the man got a hit and I was fine with it,” Gray said. “The innings was going and going and I was trying to think about it.
“At one point, I got mixed and I did not know if I was five or six. I knew when I went out for the ninth and it felt like just another innings, which was good.”
Gray has dominated the pirates in this season, going 2–0 with 0.75 ERA in two pre-early. He allowed one run in a 12 joint innings, while 12 walked out and ran one. At an initial in Pittsburgh on 8 April, Gray excluded four and allowed one run – a single homer by Brian Reynolds – in five innings.
13 career begins and a relief appearance against pirates is 7–4 with Gray 3.66 ERA.
St. Louis has so far scored in his first two matches against Pittsburgh and has closed four times in his last seven matches.
Keller, who has recently been a subject of business speculation, will try to keep that trend for the pires.
Keller (2–10, 3.90 ERA) finally left an individual 15-start Winless drought on Friday, when he won his first win since March 28, pitching a 5 1/3 innings of a run ball in a 9–1 domestic win over New York Mets.
The 29 -year -old right -handed batsman allowed one run on five hits, fired one and hit four. The victory was the first in the stretch of four consecutive matches in which the Pirates scored nine or more runs and won for seven or more.
Keller is 0–1 with 2.03 ERA against cardinals this season. He threw 7 1/3 shutout innings, folded six and went to St. Louis, a vs. St. Louis in Pittsburgh on 9 April.
The bats of the pirates calmed down for seven innings on Tuesday as they had to hit only one against Andre Pallante. However, Pittsburgh produced the required alone run run in eighth place from Reliever Phil Maton, as Henry Davis’s sacrifice fly produced a 1-0 win.
Pirates Ace Paul Sciences played five innings, and three relievers completed the shutout.
“Winning is definitely more fun than losing,” Pirates First Basman Spencer Horvitz said after the victory. “We are starting to click. Everyone is doing their share, and as long as we continue to do so, we can continue to win the game.”
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