Cardinals become 1st team to hit 4 HRs in row in 1st inning

It was the first time in major league history that a team hit four straight homers in the first.

The four-in-a-row record was tied by the Cards. They did it for the first time and it was the 11th time overall.

After Kyle Gibson got the first two outs, Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado hit back-to-back home runs. The night before, Arenado hit for the cycle for the second time in his career, but St. Louis lost to Philadelphia.

Gorman drove a cutter into the seats. The last time the Cards hit three homers in a row was in 2002.

The second deck in right field was facing the opposing team's first pitch when Carson hit his home run.

The last time a team did that was in August of 2020.

Entering Saturday, he had allowed just nine homers.

When Nootbaar made contact on a flyball that was caught in deep left field but well shy of the warning track, the home crowd gasped.

That's right.

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