Iván Herrera Walk-Off Home Run Lifts Cardinals Over Pirates 9-6

Iván Herrera hit a three-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th inning Tuesday night, lifting the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Busch Stadium. The 410-foot blast off Pirates reliever Mason Montgomery was the fourth home run of the game for the Cardinals and secured their fifth walk-off win of the season.

Herrera’s decisive shot, his first career walk-off RBI, followed a single by JJ Wetherholt that moved the automatic runner to third base. Cardinals reliever George Soriano retired the Pirates in order in the top of the 10th to set the stage for the win, improving St. Louis’s record in extra-inning games to 7-1.

The Cardinals built an early lead with a two-run homer from Wetherholt in the third inning and added a run in the fourth. Pittsburgh responded with a four-run rally in the fifth, highlighted by a game-tying two-run double from Bryan Reynolds and a go-ahead RBI single by Oneil Cruz. St. Louis starter Matthew Liberatore struck out a career-high nine batters but was pulled after 4 2/3 innings, having allowed four runs on seven hits.

Nolan Gorman reclaimed the lead for the Cardinals with a two-run homer in the sixth, a 436-foot...