St. Louis Cardinals at Oakland Athletics

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St. Louis Cardinals

9-9, 6-6 Away

Final
3 - 2

Oakland Athletics

7-11, 3-9 Home

Lynn earns his first win in second stint with Cards, who beat A's before season-low crowd of 3,296

Lynn (1-0) allowed two runs — one earned — and five hits in seven innings, lowering his ERA to 2.18 in four starts. The 36-year-old right-hander went 72-47 for the Cardinals from 2011-17. After pitching for five other teams, he returned to St. Louis during the offseason for an $11 million, one-year contract.

“From the get-go, they weren’t going to let me try to get to two strikes or get them in a strikeout situation,” Lynn said. “So then you just mix and match early and let them have some weak contact. We had some great plays behind me. All in all, that’s a good recipe.”

JoJo Romero and Ryan Helsley each got three straight outs, with Helsley earning his major league-leading seventh save in eight chances.

St. Louis won its second straight over the A's and got back to .500 at 9-9.

Masyn Winn and Jordan Walker hit consecutive sacrifice flies off Dany Jiménez (1-1) as the Cardinals overcame a 2-1 deficit in the sixth. Nolan Arenado led off with a single, Jiménez issued back-to-back walks and center fielder JJ Bleday heaved the ball home with no chance for a play on Winn's fly, allowing the other two runners to advance.

Oakland fell to 3-9 at home and 7-11 overall. The team's average home attendance has been 5,968 through 12 games. The A's have announced plans to move to Sacramento from 2025-27 and Las Vegas after that.

Kyle McCann hit an RBI single in the second and hit his first major league homer, a fifth-inning drive off Lynn that left McCann's bat at 106.3 mph and traveled 385 feet to right-center.

“Dream come true,” McCann said. “As soon as I hit it, I actually looked up at the scoreboard to see how hard I hit it, and once I saw that I got it pretty well, I was just praying it went out. And then as soon as it did, obviously I was fired up running around the bases. It was a great moment.”

Brendan Donovan had a run-scoring grounder in the third off JP Sears, who allowed two hits in five innings.

Willson Contreras singled in the seventh inning to extend his hitting streak to 10 games. He has reached base safely in 22 straight games dating to last year.

MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR HERZOG

Whitey Herzog was honored with a moment of silence before the game. The former Cardinals manager died Monday at the age of 92. Herzog played for the Kansas City A's from 1958-60.

Cardinals LHP Steven Matz (1-0, 1.80 ERA) starts Wednesday afternoon’s series finale against Athletics RHP Paul Blackburn (1-0, 0.00 ERA), who has yet to allow a run in 19 1/3 innings this season.

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Matchup Prediction

Athletics: 47.1%

Cardinals: 52.9%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Butler struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Nevin grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Brown popped out to third.
	9th Inning	Helsley relieved Romero
	9th Inning	Donovan grounded out to pitcher.
	9th Inning	Siani grounded out to shortstop.

Statistics

STL		OAK
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	15
7	Strikeouts	3
3	Runs Batted In	2
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	5
1	Stolen Bases	0
6	Walks	1
1	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
2	Sacrifice Flies	0
27	At Bats	32
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	6
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
12	Fly Balls	14
1	Caught Stealing	0
143	Pitches	130
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
4	Total Bases	9
37	Plate Appearances	33
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
0	Extra Base Hits	2
1.6	Runs Created	1.3
.148	Batting Average	.156
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.148	Slugging Percentage	.281
.222	Secondary Average	.156
.286	On Base Percentage	.182
.434	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.463
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.1
1.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.3
17.0	Batter Rating	18.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	32.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.86	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.94
.000	Isolated Power	.125
0.86	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.162	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.030
.074	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
6.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.1
67.8	MLB Rating	69.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0