The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros 4-1 on Apr 16, 2025 at Busch Stadium.
Final · Busch Stadium
Top performers
- Ronel Blanco pitched 5.0 innings for the Astros, allowing 3 earned runs with 1 strikeouts.
- Lars Nootbaar went 1-for-3 with 1 home run and 3 RBI for the Cardinals.
- Steven Matz pitched 5.0 innings for the Cardinals, allowing 1 earned run with 5 strikeouts.
Houston Astros box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Altuve | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Christian Walker | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jeremy Pena | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yainer Diaz | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Isaac Paredes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Jake Meyers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cam Smith | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Team | 25 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronel Blanco | 5.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Steven Okert | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tayler Scott | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bennett Sousa | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 7.2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
St. Louis Cardinals box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nolan Arenado | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Willson Contreras | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Alec Burleson | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jordan Walker | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thomas Saggese | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Lars Nootbaar | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Brendan Donovan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yohel Pozo | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Victor Scott II | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 32 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Matz | 5.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Phil Maton | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryan Helsley | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Leahy | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryan Fernandez | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
Before and after
- Astros · 2025 season · Previous Apr 15, 2025: HOU 2, STL 0 · Next Apr 18, 2025: SD 4, HOU 6
- Cardinals · 2025 season · Previous Apr 15, 2025: HOU 2, STL 0 · Next Apr 17, 2025: STL 1, NYM 4