St. Louis Cardinals at Toronto Blue Jays

· Major League Baseball

St. Louis Cardinals

74-74, 35-39 Away

Final
2 - 7

Toronto Blue Jays

71-78, 37-37 Home

Berríos wins seventh straight start, Guerrero gets 500th RBI as Blue Jays beat Cardinals 7-2

Guerrero went 1 for 3 with a walk, maintaining his batting average at .320, the third-highest in the AL.

“This year he’s separated himself and been on a different level offensively,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said of Guerrero. “He’s a really good hitter who understands how to drive in runs.”

Guerrero, 25, is the youngest player in Blue Jays history to drive in 500 runs. He reached the mark in 806 games.

Davis Schneider went 3 for 4 with a home run and drove in two as Toronto won its second straight.

Addison Barger had two hits and an RBI and Alejandro Kirk drove in a pair as the Blue Jays handed the Cardinals their first series loss against an AL East opponent in more than two years.

St. Louis lost for the fifth time in eight games and fell back to .500 at 74-74. The Cardinals began the day seven games out of the third NL wild card.

“I’m not really looking at the standings,” Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado said. “I’m not too worried about it. Just try to take care of business and we’ll see where we end up. Obviously we’ve dug ourselves a hole and we need teams to play bad for us to get to where we want to go.”

Berríos (16-9) allowed one run and two hits, walked two and struck out four. He’s 3-0 in five career starts against St. Louis.

“Offensively, we just didn’t string anything together all day,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “Berríos did a nice job against us.”

Arenado praised Berríos for making at least 30 starts in each of the past six full seasons, excluding 2020.

“He doesn’t get a whole lot of credit around the game for how consistent he really is, just posting and putting innings up,” Arenado said. “He’s probably one of the more consistent pitchers in the game that people don’t talk about. His ball moves a lot.”

Roy Halladay won a Toronto-record 11 consecutive starts in 2003.

Ryan Burr worked the eighth and Luis Frías finished for Toronto.

Jordan Walker hit a solo home run, his third of the season, for the Cardinals. St. Louis came in 9-4 against AL East foes. They last lost a series to an AL East team by dropping two of three at Boston in June, 2022.

Arenado stayed in the game after an insect stung his left pinkie while he was fielding in the eighth.

“A bee flew near my ear, I wiped it with my glove,” Arenado said. “I thought it was gone, I put my glove on and got stung. It got stuck in my glove and it stung me on my pinkie. When I pulled my hand out after it stung me, the stinger was on my finger.”

Arenado had some mild swelling but said he expected to be available Sunday.

Walker opened the scoring with a two-out homer in the third, but Schneider tied it by connecting off Cardinals right-hander Kyle Gibson in the bottom half for his 11th home run and first since June 22.

Toronto took the lead with a four-run sixth. After the Blue Jays used a single and two walks to load the bases, Gibson exited after shortstop Masyn Winn’s throwing error on Ernie Clement’s grounder allowed the tiebreaking run to score.

Ryan Fernandez came on and gave up Kirk’s RBI groundout, and run-scoring singles by Barger and Schneider.

Gibson (8-7) allowed five runs – one earned – and four hits in 5 1/3 innings. He walked three and struck out one.

“It’s unfortunate how the outing ended,” Gibson said. “Overall I felt pretty good, just wish I could have avoided those two walks there in the sixth.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Blue Jays: SS Leo Jiménez was scratched from the lineup because of a right index finger contusion and replaced by Clement. … OF Joey Loperfido departed after four innings because of left adductor discomfort, the team said.

RHP Yariel Rodríguez (1-6, 4.42) is scheduled to start for Toronto Sunday as the Blue Jays look for the sweep. RHP Miles Mikolas (8-11, 5.55) starts for the Cardinals.

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Matchup Prediction

Blue Jays: 58.7%

Cardinals: 41.3%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Donovan flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Fermín grounded out to second, Burleson scored.
	9th Inning	Fermín hit for Arenado
	9th Inning	Baker flied out to right, Burleson to third.
	9th Inning	Baker hit for Goldschmidt
	9th Inning	Burleson doubled to left.

Statistics

STL		TOR
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
12	Ground Balls	15
5	Strikeouts	4
2	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
3	Hits	10
0	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	7
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	34
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
4	Runners Left On Base	19
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
13	Fly Balls	15
0	Caught Stealing	0
121	Pitches	162
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
7	Total Bases	16
32	Plate Appearances	38
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
0.6	Runs Created	5.7
.100	Batting Average	.294
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.233	Slugging Percentage	.471
.200	Secondary Average	.294
.156	On Base Percentage	.368
.390	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.839
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
0.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.1
16.0	Batter Rating	43.5
30.0	At Bats Per Home Run	34.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.78	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.26
.133	Isolated Power	.176
0.40	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.00
.063	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.105
.100	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
4.0	Runs Produced	13.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
65.5	MLB Rating	92.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0