Line Score – Game Over

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB
STL 1 0 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 9 10 2 6
HOU 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 8 1 8

Box Score

HOU AB R H RBI BB SO BA
2B Altuve 5 1 1 1 0 1 .293
DH Alvarez, Y 5 1 2 1 0 0 .333
SS Correa 5 1 1 0 0 1 .271
1B Walker, C 4 0 0 0 0 2 .278
LF Loperfido, J 3 0 0 0 0 1 .259
LF Matthews 1 0 0 0 0 1 .107
RF Smith 2 0 0 0 1 0 .264
CF Trammell 4 0 2 1 0 1 .300
C Vázquez, C 3 1 2 1 1 1 .400
SS Allen, N 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250
3B Paredes 2 0 0 0 0 1 .200
3B Whitcomb 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
HOU IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Lambert, P 5.0 7 4 4 1 8 90-62 7.20
Okert 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 19-12 3.60
Abreu, B 1.0 2 3 3 1 0 16-8 14.73
France, J 2.0 1 2 2 1 1 35-23 8.10
STL AB R H RBI BB SO BA
2B Wetherholt 3 3 1 0 1 0 .232
DH Herrera 4 2 2 3 0 0 .212
1B Burleson 4 1 2 0 1 1 .292
RF Walker, J 4 1 1 1 1 2 .315
3B Gorman 5 1 1 3 0 3 .207
SS Winn 5 0 1 2 0 0 .189
LF Church 3 0 1 0 1 1 .214
C Pagés, P 4 1 1 0 0 0 .211
CF Scott II 4 0 0 0 0 2 .235
STL IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Leahy 5.0 5 3 3 0 6 83-53 5.21
Bruihl 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 9-6 7.20
Romero, J 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 12-9 0.00
Stanek 1.0 2 1 1 2 3 29-17 8.64
Soriano, G 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 12-9 2.00

Scoring Plays

Inning Event Score
T1 Jordan Walker singles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Taylor Trammell. JJ Wetherholt scores. Alec Burleson to 3rd. 0-1
T3 Masyn Winn singles on a ground ball to left fielder Joey Loperfido. JJ Wetherholt scores. Iván Herrera scores. Alec Burleson to 3rd. 0-3
B3 Christian Vázquez homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. 1-3
B3 Yordan Alvarez homers (8) on a fly ball to right field. 2-3
T4 Iván Herrera singles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Taylor Trammell. Pedro Pagés scores. 2-4
B5 Jose Altuve homers (3) on a fly ball to left field. 3-4
T7 Nolan Gorman homers (3) on a fly ball to right field. Alec Burleson scores. Jordan Walker scores. 3-7
T8 Iván Herrera homers (2) on a fly ball to left field. JJ Wetherholt scores. 3-9
B8 Taylor Trammell singles on a line drive to right fielder Jordan Walker. Carlos Correa scores. Cam Smith to 3rd. 4-9

Highlights

Description Length
Kyle Leahy against the Astros 0:09
Probable pitchers for Cardinals at Astros – April 17, 2026 0:06
Bullpen availability for Houston, April 17 vs Cardinals 0:09
Bullpen availability for St. Louis, April 17 vs Astros 0:09
Bench availability for St. Louis, April 17 vs Astros 0:08
Fielding alignment for St. Louis, April 17 vs Astros 0:11
Bench availability for Houston, April 17 vs Cardinals 0:08
Starting lineups for Cardinals at Astros – April 17, 2026 0:10
Measuring the stats on Yordan Alvarez's home run 0:13
Measuring the stats on Christian Vázquez's home run 0:13
Kyle Leahy's outing against the Astros 0:25
Nolan Gorman: Home Run Statcast Analysis 0:13
Breaking down Peter Lambert's pitches 0:04
Breaking down Kyle Leahy's pitches 0:04
Jordan Walker's RBI single 0:19
Peter Lambert fans Nolan Gorman 0:08
Kyle Leahy strikes out Carlos Correa looking 0:07
Masyn Winn's two-run single 0:19
Yordan Alvarez's solo homer (8) 0:24
Christian Vázquez's solo homer (2) 0:29
Iván Herrera's RBI single 0:20
Challenge at first confirmed safe 0:29
Called strikeout confirmed after ABS challenge 0:29
Isaac Paredes strikes out swinging. 0:06
Challenge overturned after catcher's interference 0:29
Jose Altuve's solo homer (3) 0:29
Nathan Church steals second 0:17
Called ball overturned as strike after ABS challenge 0:31
Nolan Gorman's three-run homer (3) 0:27
Jojo Romero's pitch comes right back to him 0:15
Iván Herrera's two-run homer (2) 0:29
Taylor Trammell's RBI single 0:20
Abreu allows three-run home run to Gorman 0:25

Decisions

Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Save
Leahy (2-2, 5.21 ERA) Lambert, P (0-1, 7.20 ERA)

Game ended at 10:02 PM.

31 comments

  6. Gotta imagine joe espada and dana browns reputation are at an all time low.

    Being that its a contract year for them, they aint coming back.

  7. Abreus gotta go. Whether it’s to AAA to get his confidence/mechanics back or another team but he’s currently not fit to be on the roster

  8. The worst pitching in baseball continues to be the worst. Abreu sucks. Paredes sucks, although pinch hitting for him with Shay is fucking stupid.

  9. I don’t know how long it’ll take Joe to realize Abreu is only good when he’s a setup man pitching in the 8th

  10. Abreu rocking that 14.73 ERA.

    Joe: He’s our guy. Stay patient. He’ll show up.

    What a joke lmao. He’s gotta go.

  11. This team does feel pretty hopeless with the way the pitching staff is going, but I’m still optimistic. 141 games left only 5 games under .500 in a seemingly winnable division. I think when Hader and Sousa and Brown come back things will even out.

  13. Some positives:

    – Lambert did a lot better than his statline showed. Just gotta limit walks
    – Yordong did some Yordong things

    The bad:

    – Abreu. What to do with him? Methinks phantom IL stint to figure out what’s going on

  15. With the way he’s performed you would think Vasquez has earned himself more starts.

  16. Realistically what hope do we even have? We have two good starters in LMJ and Brown and one of them is on the il. All our relief is a craps shoot of bargain bin pickups. There’s still a lot of baseball left but the bullpen has been throwing pure ass for almost 3 weeks now with no signs of anything changing. Just feels like a watch and hope for nothing kind of season.

  20. I struggle to blame Espada. Your elite closer is out until May, your elite setup man has turned into a pumpkin, and your ace is out until May. You have to start games with Cody Bolton, Ryan Weiss, and Peter Lambert for fucksake

    I do blame Dana. Burrows I still have hope for but is struggling, but to have NO pitching depth and just banking on Javier, Blanco, and Hayden returning and being fine is a horrific idea. McCullers is working out (so far) but to have waited so long to call Arrighetti or Alexander up is malpractice

    I won’t toss the season out yet, if we finish the month hovering around .500 I will have hope as always. Just win the series and see where we go, seems no one in the AL wants to run away with it

  21. I fear the longer this goes on, the more the lineup will have a “what’s the point?” attitude about RBI’s. They put up 9 runs against the A’s and then got walked off. May begin to feel pointless to bring in runs when you need double digits most games just to have a chance at winning.

  28. So fucking depressing dude. We have to score 10 runs to have any chance of winning games.

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