The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3 on May 5, 2025 at Busch Stadium.
Final · Busch Stadium
Top performers
- Bryan Reynolds went 1-for-5 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Pirates.
- Carmen Mlodzinski pitched 4.2 innings for the Pirates, allowing 2 earned runs with 2 strikeouts.
- Willson Contreras went 2-for-4 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Cardinals.
- Miles Mikolas pitched 5.0 innings for the Cardinals, allowing 3 earned runs with 1 strikeouts.
Pittsburgh Pirates 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Reynolds | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Andrew McCutchen | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Adam Frazier | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ke'Bryan Hayes | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Oneil Cruz | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tommy Pham | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Joey Bart | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Jared Triolo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 28 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen Mlodzinski | 4.2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Ryan Borucki | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Caleb Ferguson | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chase Shugart | 0.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 6.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willson Contreras | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Lars Nootbaar | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Brendan Donovan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alec Burleson | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Victor Scott II | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nolan Arenado | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Nolan Gorman | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pedro Pages | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 29 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles Mikolas | 5.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Phil Maton | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryan Helsley | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Kyle Leahy | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Gordon Graceffo | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
Before and after
- Pirates · 2025 season · Previous May 4, 2025: SD 4, PIT 0 · Next May 6, 2025: PIT 1, STL 2
- Cardinals · 2025 season · Previous May 4, 2025: NYM 4, STL 5 · Next May 6, 2025: PIT 1, STL 2