St. Louis Cardinals 1 – 0 Los Angeles Angels

MLB · July 22, 2026 · Final

🎧 Post-Game Report (audio)

Post-Game Recap

The St. Louis Cardinals shut out the Los Angeles Angels tonight, one to nothing, in a game that was decided by a single, massive swing. For eight-plus innings, both pitching staffs held firm, and it looked like this one might go deep into the night without a resolution. Then came the sixth, and Jacob Wetherholt changed everything. The Cardinals' young infielder drove a four-hundred-and-nine-foot shot to dead center, and that was all St. Louis would need. One swing, one run, ballgame. Wetherholt finished one for four with the solo home run accounting for the only run scored by either team, and frankly, it wasn't close to being overturned. The Angels had their moments — Mike Trout picked up a hit, Zach Neto got one as well — but Los Angeles could not string anything together when it mattered. Vaughn Grissom went oh for four with three strikeouts, and Nolan Schanuel was kept off the bases entirely. The Cardinals' pitching was suffocating from the first pitch to the last, and St. Louis never needed more than that one big moment to walk away with the win. In a low-scoring, tightly wound ballgame, Wetherholt was the only player who made the most of his opportunity. That's your post-game report. Sports Desk, signing off.

AI-generated post-game report composed from the official play-by-play and box score.

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Wetherholt homered to center (409 feet). P6 · 1–0

Complete Play-by-Play

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Top of the 1st inning P1

Reid Detmers pitches to JJ Wetherholt P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P1

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P1

Wetherholt grounded out to second. P1

Reid Detmers pitches to Ivan Herrera P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Looking P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 6 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P1

Herrera grounded out to second. P1

Reid Detmers pitches to Jordan Walker P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P1

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 8 : Strike 3 Looking P1

Walker struck out looking. P1

Middle of the 1st inning P1

Bottom of the 1st inning P1

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Zach Neto P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P1

Neto struck out swinging. P1

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Mike Trout P1

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P1

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P1

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P1

Trout grounded out to shortstop. P1

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Nolan Schanuel P1

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P1

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P1

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P1

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P1

Schanuel grounded out to second. P1

End of the 1st inning P1

Top of the 2nd inning P2

Reid Detmers pitches to Alec Burleson P2

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2

Burleson lined out to right. P2

Reid Detmers pitches to Nelson Velazquez P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P2

Velázquez grounded out to third. P2

Reid Detmers pitches to Masyn Winn P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P2

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P2

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Winn struck out swinging. P2

Middle of the 2nd inning P2

Bottom of the 2nd inning P2

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Vaughn Grissom P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Grissom struck out swinging. P2

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Jo Adell P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P2

Adell struck out swinging. P2

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Wade Meckler P2

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P2

Meckler singled to center. P2

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Oswald Peraza P2

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P2

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P2

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P2

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P2

Peraza singled to center, Meckler to third. P2

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Josh Lowe P2

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P2

Lowe grounded out to first. P2

End of the 2nd inning P2

Top of the 3rd inning P3

Reid Detmers pitches to Jose Fermin P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Looking P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Fermín struck out swinging. P3

Reid Detmers pitches to Blaze Jordan P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Jordan singled to right. P3

Reid Detmers pitches to Jimmy Crooks P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P3

Crooks flied out to left. P3

Reid Detmers pitches to JJ Wetherholt P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P3

Wetherholt flied out to left. P3

Middle of the 3rd inning P3

Bottom of the 3rd inning P3

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Tyler Heineman P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P3

Heineman lined out to center. P3

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Zach Neto P3

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P3

Neto doubled to left. P3

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Mike Trout P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P3

Trout hit by pitch. P3

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Nolan Schanuel P3

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P3

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P3

Schanuel fouled out to first. P3

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Vaughn Grissom P3

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P3

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P3

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P3

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P3

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P3

Grissom struck out swinging. P3

End of the 3rd inning P3

Top of the 4th inning P4

Reid Detmers pitches to Ivan Herrera P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Herrera struck out swinging. P4

Reid Detmers pitches to Jordan Walker P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P4

Walker grounded out to shortstop. P4

Reid Detmers pitches to Alec Burleson P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Burleson grounded out to first. P4

Middle of the 4th inning P4

Bottom of the 4th inning P4

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Jo Adell P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P4

Adell struck out swinging. P4

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Wade Meckler P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P4

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Meckler singled to right. P4

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Oswald Peraza P4

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P4

Peraza flied out to left. P4

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Josh Lowe P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P4

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P4

Lowe singled to right, Meckler to third. P4

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Tyler Heineman P4

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P4

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P4

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P4

Pitch 5 : Ball In Play P4

Heineman fouled out to third. P4

End of the 4th inning P4

Top of the 5th inning P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Nelson Velazquez P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 4 P5

Velázquez walked. P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Masyn Winn P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P5

Winn walked, Velázquez to second. P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Jose Fermin P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P5

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5

Fermín grounded into double play, third to first, Winn to second, Velázquez out at third. P5

Reid Detmers pitches to Blaze Jordan P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P5

Jordan struck out swinging. P5

Middle of the 5th inning P5

Bottom of the 5th inning P5

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Zach Neto P5

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P5

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P5

Pitch 4 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P5

Neto flied out to right. P5

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Mike Trout P5

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P5

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P5

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P5

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P5

Trout singled to center. P5

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Nolan Schanuel P5

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P5

Schanuel lined into double play, to first, Trout doubled off first. P5

End of the 5th inning P5

Top of the 6th inning P6

Reid Detmers pitches to Jimmy Crooks P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P6

Crooks struck out looking. P6

Reid Detmers pitches to JJ Wetherholt P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Wetherholt homered to center (409 feet). P6

Fermin relieved Detmers P6

Jose Fermin pitches to Ivan Herrera P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P6

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Herrera flied out to center. P6

Jose Fermin pitches to Jordan Walker P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P6

Walker grounded out to shortstop. P6

Middle of the 6th inning P6

Bottom of the 6th inning P6

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Vaughn Grissom P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P6

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Grissom grounded out to third. P6

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Jo Adell P6

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P6

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P6

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P6

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P6

Pitch 6 : Ball In Play P6

Adell flied out to left. P6

Hunter Dobbins pitches to Wade Meckler P6

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P6

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P6

Meckler grounded out to second. P6

End of the 6th inning P6

Top of the 7th inning P7

Natera Jr. relieved Fermin P7

Samy Natera Jr. pitches to Alec Burleson P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Burleson struck out swinging. P7

Samy Natera Jr. pitches to Nelson Velazquez P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Velázquez struck out swinging. P7

Samy Natera Jr. pitches to Masyn Winn P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 4 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 8 : Ball In Play P7

Winn singled to center. P7

Samy Natera Jr. pitches to Jose Fermin P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 6 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P7

Fermín flied out to left. P7

Middle of the 7th inning P7

Bottom of the 7th inning P7

Church in center field. P7

Fermín in left field. P7

Gastelum relieved Dobbins P7

Luis Gastelum pitches to Oswald Peraza P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P7

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Looking P7

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P7

Pitch 6 : Strike 3 Swinging P7

Peraza struck out swinging. P7

Luis Gastelum pitches to Josh Lowe P7

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P7

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P7

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 5 : Ball 2 P7

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P7

Pitch 7 : Ball In Play P7

Lowe singled to right. P7

Luis Gastelum pitches to Tyler Heineman P7

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P7

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P7

Heineman grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Lowe out at second. P7

End of the 7th inning P7

Top of the 8th inning P8

Farris relieved Natera Jr. P8

Mitch Farris pitches to Blaze Jordan P8

Pitch 1 : Ball In Play P8

Jordan popped out to second. P8

Mitch Farris pitches to Jimmy Crooks P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball In Play P8

Crooks popped out to shortstop. P8

Mitch Farris pitches to JJ Wetherholt P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Swinging P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Wetherholt flied out to left. P8

Middle of the 8th inning P8

Bottom of the 8th inning P8

Soriano relieved Gastelum P8

George Soriano pitches to Zach Neto P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P8

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Looking P8

Neto struck out looking. P8

George Soriano pitches to Mike Trout P8

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Trout flied out to center. P8

George Soriano pitches to Nolan Schanuel P8

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P8

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P8

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P8

Pitch 4 : Ball In Play P8

Schanuel grounded out to first. P8

End of the 8th inning P8

Top of the 9th inning P9

Yates relieved Farris P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Ivan Herrera P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Foul P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Looking P9

Herrera struck out looking. St Louis Cardinals challenged: call on the field was upheld. P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Jordan Walker P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Walker struck out swinging. P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Alec Burleson P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P9

Burleson walked. P9

Kirby Yates pitches to Nathan Church P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Ball In Play P9

Church grounded out to second. P9

Middle of the 9th inning P9

Bottom of the 9th inning P9

O'Brien relieved Soriano P9

Riley O'Brien pitches to Vaughn Grissom P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Grissom struck out swinging. P9

Riley O'Brien pitches to Jo Adell P9

Pitch 1 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 5 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 6 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 7 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 8 : Ball 4 P9

Adell walked. P9

Siri ran for Adell P9

Riley O'Brien pitches to Wade Meckler P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Looking P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Siri stole second. P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 2 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 2 Swinging P9

Pitch 5 : Ball 3 P9

Pitch 6 : Ball 4 P9

Meckler walked. P9

Riley O'Brien pitches to Oswald Peraza P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 3 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Peraza struck out swinging. P9

Riley O'Brien pitches to Josh Lowe P9

Pitch 1 : Strike 1 Swinging P9

Pitch 2 : Ball 1 P9

Pitch 3 : Strike 2 Foul P9

Pitch 4 : Strike 3 Swinging P9

Lowe struck out swinging. P9

End of the 9th inning P9