The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2 on Jul 29, 2026 at Busch Stadium.
Final · Busch Stadium
Top performers
- Pete Crow-Armstrong went 1-for-5 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Cubs.
- Matthew Boyd pitched 7.0 innings for the Cubs, allowing 0 earned runs with 5 strikeouts.
- Ivan Herrera went 3-for-5 with 2 RBI for the Cardinals.
- Dustin May pitched 5.0 innings for the Cardinals, allowing 0 earned runs with 3 strikeouts.
Chicago Cubs 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pete Crow-Armstrong | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Busch | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Dansby Swanson | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Alex Bregman | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ian Happ | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Miguel Amaya | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Seiya Suzuki | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Pedro Ramirez | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Michael Conforto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Nico Hoerner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 32 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Boyd | 7.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Jacob Webb | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Caleb Thielbar | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Trent Thornton | 0.1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Walker | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Ivan Herrera | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Alec Burleson | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Masyn Winn | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| JJ Wetherholt | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Blaze Jordan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jose Fermin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Nathan Church | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pedro Pages | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lars Nootbaar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 35 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dustin May | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| George Soriano | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Ryne Stanek | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Luis Gastelum | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Riley O'Brien | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Justin Bruihl | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 10.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 |
Before and after
- Cubs · 2026 season · Previous Jul 28, 2026: CHC 10, STL 2 · Next Jul 30, 2026: CHC 4, STL 2
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