Walker Homers and Mikolas Pitches Streaking Cardinals to 1-0 Win over Royals
- Jordan Walker’s home run and six strong innings from Miles Mikolas powered the St. Louis Cardinals to a 1-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals in Saturday’s game in Kansas City, Mo.
- The win followed a game in which Mikolas allowed two hits and four strikeouts, while the Royals stranded five runners and have recently scored four or fewer runs in seven of eight games.
- Walker launched a 422-foot homer to start the sixth inning, marking his third of the season and the lone run in a game featuring just six combined hits that lasted 1 hour and 49 minutes.
- The Cardinals improved to 26-20 by winning 12 of their last 13 games, including a successful road trip where they went 7-1 across three different cities, marking their best road performance in several years.
- The Cardinals will attempt to finish an 8-1 road trip Sunday as Matthew Liberatore faces Michael Wacha in the series finale, aiming to sweep the Royals after this victory.
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Walker homers and Mikolas pitches streaking Cardinals to win over Royals
Jordan Walker homered and Miles Mikolas pitched six sharp innings to lead the surging St. Louis Cardinals past the Kansas City Royals 1-0 on Saturday night. Mikolas (3-2) allowed two hits with four strikeouts and two walks for the Cardinals, who have won three straight and 12 of 13. St. Louis is 7-1 on a nine-game trip to three cities, winning all three series. Walker connected leading off sixth. Iván Herrera’s two-out single in the fifth was th…
Walker homers, Mikolas goes six strong in Cardinals' 1-0 win over Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jordan Walker homered and Miles Mikolas pitched six sharp innings to lead the surging St. Louis Cardinals past the Kansas City Royals 1-0 on Saturday night. Mikolas (3-2) allowed two hits with four strikeouts and two walks for the Cardinals, who have won three straight and 12 of 13. St. Louis is 7-1 on a nine-game trip to three cities, winning all three series. Walker connected leading off sixth. Iván Herrera’s two-out si…


Miles Mikolas wins pitchers' duel as Cardinals top Royals
Miles Mikolas pitched six strong innings and Jordan Walker's sixth-inning homer provided the lone run Saturday night as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals topped the struggling Kansas City Royals 1-0 to win for the 12th time in 13 games.
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