Sunny Gray threw an one-hitter and worked with two runs by a season-high 11 and Alek Burlson and Nolan Aranado, as St. Louis Cardinals defeated Cleveland Guardians 5–0 on Friday night.
Gray (8-2) allowed Nolan Jones a single in the fifth innings only and did not continue a walking in his 89-picker work. The Guardian failed to get the ball out of the infield until the fourth innings and did not carry forward a runner on another basis.
The right-handed batsman held his first shutout since July 28, 2015 and his first nine-innings since August 7, 2015 with Okland athletics. It was also the first full game of Gray since 2017, when he was a member of the New York Yankeys.
Cardinals took a 3–0 lead in the third when Berlson played two-run homer and Pedro pages and had a single shot against the Guardian starter Louis Orties (4-9), who also made his second evening error in the innings.
In the sixth, Berlson doubled and came home from the two-bagger wall of Nolan Arenado. Aranado tackled an RBI single in eighth position from Zakob Junis to complete the scoring.
St. Louis played his 10th game in a nine-day interval, going 7-3 against Chicago White Socx, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs and Cleveland. If they win the next two competitions, the cardinals will sweep parents for initial times.
The Ortis worked in seven innings, giving four runs on six hits, including five strikes and one walk. The right-hand has 8.53 ERA in six matches against the right hand Handl.
Parents are 15–23 from May 13, when they were more than 500 season-high games. Cleveland was a shutout for the second straight game and lost three out of four on its homestand.
The Guardian all-star third Basman Jose Ramirez did not play, one day after hitting a pitch on his right hand with Kevin Gausamman of Toronto.
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