Dustin May threw a one-hit complete game shutout on Monday to help the St. Louis Cardinals earn a 3-0 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres.
May (5-6) threw six perfect innings before Fernando Tatis Jr. walked in the seventh. The St. Louis starter struck out nine and walked one in the first complete game of his career. It was also his first career shutout.
Jimmy Crooks had two RBIs for the Cardinals, who had dropped three of their previous four games. May improved to 2-0 with a 1.31 ERA in three starts in June.
Lucas Giolito (2-2) threw five innings for San Diego, allowing three runs on seven hits, while walking three and striking out two. The Padres have dropped 14 of their last 20 games.
After opener Wandy Peralta threw a perfect first, Giolito allowed Jordan Walker and Lars Nootbaar’s consecutive singles before retiring the next three batters in the second.
In the fourth, Nootbaar and Masyn Winn reached on back-to-back two-out singles, before Crooks’ two-run double gave the Cardinals a 2-0 lead.
May needed just 50 pitches to finish five perfect innings, striking out just two in the process.
Ivan Herrera walked and advanced to second on a wild pitch with two outs in the fifth, before scoring on Alec Burleson’s RBI double.
May struck out Ty France, Sung-Mun Song and Rodolfo Duran in the sixth.
Tatis began the seventh with a walk for the Padres’ first base runner of the game. After Jackson Merrill grounded out, Manny Machado singled for San Diego’s only hit to break up the no-hitter and place runners on the corners with two outs.
One pitch later, May got Gavin Sheets to ground into a double play to end the inning.
Kyle Hart tossed two scoreless innings in relief of Giolito.
May struck out the side for the second time in the eighth, sitting down Xander Bogaerts, Will Wagner and France on 16 pitches.
In the ninth, May retired Song and Duran before striking out Tatis to stamp the dominant outing.
