Overview

• Matthew Liberatore delivered 5 1/3 shutout innings with seven strikeouts and one walk on 81 pitches to earn his first win since June 29.
• Willson Contreras finished 3-for-4 with four RBIs, producing a two-run single in the third inning and a two-run triple in the eighth.
• Nolan Gorman recorded three hits, including his 14th home run in the seventh, and added several sharp defensive plays.
• The bullpen covered the final 11 outs while allowing one run, with Jacob Leahy yielding a homer to Nick Kurtz and JoJo Romero recording the last four outs for his seventh save.
• The Cardinals surpassed 2,000,000 in home attendance for the 40th consecutive full season, while Contreras’s suspension status remained unresolved and a report about shelving O’Brien was unverified.