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St. Louis Cardinals beginning pitcher Sonny Grey turned in one of the dominant pitching performances of the season within the staff’s 5-0 win over the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Discipline Friday.
Grey, 35, accomplished the “Maddux,” pitching 9 innings of shutout ball whereas yielding one hit and placing out 11 batters with simply 89 pitches.
Grey’s efficiency marks the primary time a pitcher tossed a complete-game shutout of underneath 90 pitches since 2021. New York Yankees ace Max Fried was the final pitcher to do it, when he shut down the Baltimore Orioles as a member of the Atlanta Braves.
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Sonny Grey of the St. Louis Cardinals pitches throughout the first inning in opposition to the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Discipline June 27, 2025, in Cleveland. (Nick Cammett/Getty Pictures)
The three-time All-Star has thrown seven full video games in his 13-year profession, however Friday’s full recreation was Grey’s first since 2017, when he did it with the Yankees.
“I did it rather a lot earlier in my profession, and it’s been some time,” Grey stated after the sport. “You don’t know when you would be capable of do it, particularly the best way the video games type of went, and particularly with me. Like, I don’t throw over 100 pitches fairly often.”
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St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Sonny Grey pitches within the first inning in opposition to the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland Friday, June 27, 2025. (AP Picture/Sue Ogrocki)
Grey by no means threw greater than 12 pitches in an inning and had two innings with eight or fewer pitches. Grey was on the assault all through the sport with 19 first-pitch strikes to the 28 batters he confronted.
The Cardinals’ starter retired 15 of Cleveland’s hitters on three pitches or fewer, together with six on the primary pitch.
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St. Louis Cardinals beginning pitcher Sonny Grey (54) and his teammates have a good time a win in opposition to the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Discipline June 27, 2025, in Cleveland. (David Richard/Imagn Pictures)
“I knew the innings have been type of shifting proper alongside. I did know that I used to be excellent by means of that lengthy. I made an excellent pitch there when the man acquired the hit, so I used to be tremendous with that,” Grey stated. “Once I was going out for the ninth, it felt like simply one other inning, which was good.”
The Cardinals (45-38) will look to construct on Grey’s efficiency after they tackle the Guardians (40-40) within the second recreation of a three-game sequence Saturday at 4:10 p.m. ET.
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