BRONX, New York– The Cardinals’ Brendan Donovan hit a three-run homer in a 6-5 victory over the Yankees in front of 41,454 fans Saturday afternoon in the second game of the weekend series at Yankee Stadium.
It was St. Louis’ first win in the Bronx since Tim McCarver hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning of Game 5 of the 1964 World Series and Bob Gibson pitched a complete game in a 5-2 win. The Cardinals are 1-7 at Yankee Stadium in the regular season.
Donovan tied a career high for home runs, hitting deep for the 11th time this season in the third inning.
The 27-year-old has hit safely in five of six games with three extra-base hits and five RBIs in that span. On the year, he is batting .263 with 61 RBIs and 54 runs scored in 552 plate appearances.
Donnie Dingers! #ForTheLou pic.twitter.com/oJW7bk9NO0
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 31, 2024
Kyle Gibson (8-6) earned the win, allowing one run on five hits and no walks with six strikeouts in seven innings. He pitched three 1-2-3 innings and earned his first win since July 7.
This was just the second outing in which the veteran did not issue a walk this season. On the year, he owns a 4.39 ERA, a 1.35 WHIP and a 134:56 K:BB in 147.2 innings and lines up for a home matchup with the Mariners next weekend.
Ryan Helsley earned his 42nd save, allowing one hit and one walk with two strikeouts in a scoreless ninth inning.
Herrera lines one into the corner to extend the lead!#ForTheLou pic.twitter.com/RhIju79eDu
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 31, 2024
The 30-year-old has allowed just one earned run in his last 10 starts and owns a 2.34 ERA, 1.20 WHIP and 64:23 K:BB in 57.2 innings this season.
Will Warren (0-3) took the loss, allowing four runs on five hits and three walks with three strikeouts in four innings. He allowed four runs in the third inning, including a three-run homer by Brendan Donovan.
Warren allowed four earned runs in four innings during his start Saturday, and the Yankees optioned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after the game.
🔔 Hel’s Bells! 🔔
42nd save on the year for Ryan Helsley!#ForTheLou pic.twitter.com/rAKjOtvKnd
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 31, 2024
For the Cardinals, Panamanian Ivan Herrera went 2-for-3 with one run scored and one RBI.
For the Yankees, Dominican Juan Soto was 1-for-5. Venezuelans Gleyber Torres was 1-for-5 and Oswaldo Cabrera was 0-for-4.
Better Performances
Aaron Judge has 31 doubles, a triple and 51 homers while batting .330 for the Yankees. Austin Wells is 9-for-30 with two doubles and three homers in the past 10 games.
Alec Burleson has 18 doubles and 21 homers while hitting .281 for the Cardinals. Brendan Donovan is 8-for-39 with a double, a triple and two homers in the last 10 games.
Next Game
The 68-68 Cardinals, third in the NL Central, face the Yankees in Game 3 of the series in New York, who are 79-57 and first in the AL East as of 1:35 p.m.
Miles Mikolas (8-10, 5.23 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 102 strikeouts) takes the mound for St. Louis, while the Yankees go to Néstor Cortés Jr. (8-10, 3.89 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 142 strikeouts).
Transmissions
New York Yankees Radio Network is a radio network owned by Audacy that broadcasts to 52 stations in eight states. The network’s flagship station is WFAN,
YES Network provides technical support for each broadcast, and Sirius XM carries the network feed for each Yankees home game under their contract. A separate Spanish-language broadcast airs on New York’s WADO at 1280 a.m.
The Spanish-language broadcast on Radio Wado 1280 AM will begin twenty minutes before the game with Rickie Ricardo and Francisco Rivera on English-language radio on WFAN 660 AM/101.9FM.
The Cardinals’ Spanish-language Network broadcasts its games on KXOK FM 102.9 and KWRH FM 92.9 (KMOX 1120 AM in English) with commentary by Polo Asencio and former catcher Bengie Molina.
Mexican Polo Ascencio is in his ninth season as a Cardinals broadcaster and his nineteenth covering baseball.
On September 29, 2016, he became the first Spanish-language play-by-play announcer in club history in a game that ended dramatically with a walk-off single by Yadier Molina. He was the play-by-play announcer for the Águilas de Mexicali in LMP
Puerto Rican Benjamin (Bengie) Molina is in his ninth season with the Cardinals as a color analyst for radio broadcasts, after thirteen seasons in MLB.
Molina is the older brother of Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina and 15-year-old MLB catcher and two-time world champion Jose Molina. The trio’s father, Benjamin, Sr., was inducted into the Puerto Rico Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame.
