Cardinals keep proving they’re built for chaos in thrilling walk-off win
St. Louis has something building.
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Louis Cardinals are developing a reputation that every contender eventually wants attached to it. They simply do not panic in close games. Tuesday night’s wild 9-6 extra-innings win over the Pittsburgh Pirates felt like another example of a team that believes it is never out of a game, no matter how messy things become.
And fittingly, it ended with Iván Herrera delivering the biggest swing of the night. After going hitless in his first four at-bats, Herrera crushed a three-run walk-off homer in the 10th inning at Busch Stadium, sending Cardinals fans into a frenzy and continuing one of baseball’s most underrated trends: St. Louis continues to win tight games in every possible way.
This one required power, patience and resilience all at once. Nolan Gorman, Matthew Liberatore connection continues For much of the night, it looked like Matthew Liberatore might steal the headlines. The left-hander was dominant early, carving through Pittsburgh’s lineup while piling up strikeouts at a rate rarely seen from the Cardinals’ contact-heavy rotation.