{"id":567369,"date":"2026-03-28T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567369\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:57:08","slug":"st-louis-cardinals-rookie-jj-wetherholt-hits-walk-off-single-to-beat-rays-in-10th-inning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567369\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals rookie JJ Wetherholt hits walk-off single to beat Rays in 10th inning"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 St. Louis rookie JJ Wetherholt lined a two-run, 10th-inning single after Michael McGreevy<\/a> tossed six hitless innings to help the Cardinals beat the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> 6-5 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Wetherholt, the seventh pick of the 2024 MLB amateur draft, lined a single to right field off Griffin Jax<\/a> (0-1) in his second career game.<\/p>\n

Jax walked Jordan Walker<\/a> on four pitches to start the bottom of the 10th, and Victor Scott II<\/a> laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance Walker and automatic runner Nathan Church<\/a> into scoring position.<\/p>\n

McGreevy walked two and struck out five batters before departing after throwing 96 pitches.<\/p>\n

Yandy D\u00edaz singled up the middle off former Rays reliever Ryne Stanek<\/a> (1-0) to leadoff the top of the 10th to give Tampa Bay a 5-4 lead.<\/p>\n

Carson Williams<\/a> lined a two-run single to left field off Stanek, and Nick Fortes<\/a> stroked a single to right field to drive in Williams and cap a four-run ninth inning and tie the game.<\/p>\n

Iv\u00e1n Herrera lined an RBI double to deep center field in the bottom of the eighth inning to expand the Cardinals lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> lined a single up the middle off Riley O\u2019Brien to leadoff the seventh and end the Cardinals\u2019 attempt for the organization\u2019s first no-hitter since 2001.<\/p>\n

Rays starter Joe Boyle<\/a> allowed two runs on three hits in the first inning before retiring the last 16 batters he faced.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rays LHP Steven Matz<\/a> is scheduled to make his first start since April 30, 2025, when he started for St. Louis at Cincinnati. He\u2019ll be opposed by former teammate RHP Kyle Leahy<\/a>, who will be making his second career start in Sunday\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

David Solomon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 St. Louis rookie JJ Wetherholt lined a two-run, 10th-inning single after Michael McGreevy tossed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-567369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}