Nothing separated these teams for nine innings. Then the 10th arrived, and it delivered everything at once. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2 in extra innings, with Ivan Herrera's two-run double turning a Cubs lead into a walk-off finish.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| STL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Herrera went 3-for-5 with two doubles and drove in both go-ahead runs. His decisive hit came with the Cardinals trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the 10th, scoring Jordan Walker and JJ Wetherholt to make it 3-2 and end the game. Walker also contributed, going 1-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI on the play that pulled St. Louis within one run just before Herrera's double.
The Cubs had broken the tie first. Pete Crow-Armstrong homered to right center in the top of the 10th, a 424-foot shot that scored Dansby Swanson ahead of him and put Chicago up 2-0. Crow-Armstrong finished 1-for-5 with the homer and two RBIs. St. Louis answered immediately in the bottom half: Walker grounded into a fielder's choice that brought home Nathan Church to make it 2-1, with Wetherholt moving to second and Lars Nootbaar out at third. Herrera's double then closed it out.
Trent Thornton took the loss for Chicago, retiring only one batter while allowing 3 runs (2 earned) on 2 hits in his brief appearance. He falls to 3-4 on the season. Cubs starter Matt Boyd had kept his team in position to win, working 7.0 scoreless innings with 5 strikeouts and just 4 hits allowed before departing. Cardinals starter Dustin May matched him for five innings, allowing only 1 hit with 0 runs, and Luis Gastelum picked up the win despite allowing 2 runs, one earned, in his lone inning of work.
The result pushed St. Louis to 54-54, its first win after a loss. Chicago, which had been playing well of late, fell to 61-47 with the loss snapping its momentum.