Jordan Walker Is Tied for Most Home Runs in Baseball and the Cardinals Can't Stop Him

The Red Sox are rolling right now, and they've got a golden chance to keep it going Sunday afternoon in St. Louis. After a brutal 2-8 start to the season, Boston has won three of their last four games, including a dominant 7-1 victory over the Cardinals on Saturday that showed exactly what this team is capable of when everything clicks.

Ranger Suarez Is Already Justifying That Monster Contract

Free-agent signing Ranger Suarez picked up his first win since inking a five-year, $130 million deal in January, and he looked like every penny of it on Saturday. He gave up just three hits while striking out six over six shutout innings. Better yet, he retired 14 of the last 15 batters he faced. Red Sox manager Alex Cora saw exactly what the deal was about. "He can pitch, man," Cora said. "It started with the mechanics. He was more on balance, more grounded, and he was able to execute."

Willson Contreras, traded by the Cardinals to Boston in December, led the charge with a 10-hit Red Sox attack. The guy went 2-for-4 with a two-run double in the fourth that opened the scoring and drove in three runs total. When he got introduced at Busch Stadium, the crowd gave him a standing ovation that actually got to him. "I'm going to be honest, this is the first time I got emotional after the World Baseball Classic," Contreras said. "I wasn't expecting that good ovation. That melts my heart. I have real good memories here and really good friends on the other side."

Walker Is on an Absolute Tear and Tied for the League Lead in Homers

Jordan Walker just keeps hitting the baseball into the stratosphere. The 23-year-old Cardinals prospect launched a 429-foot bomb over the center field wall in the eighth inning off Red Sox reliever Garrett Whitlock on Saturday. That solo shot is Walker's sixth home run of the season, tying him for the major league lead with Houston's Yordan Alvarez and Baltimore's Gunnar Henderson. Think about this: Walker hit six homers the entire 2025 season in 363 at-bats. He's already there in 51 at-bats this year. He's homered in five of his last seven games.

The crazy part? He struggled during the early part of the season, hitting just .205 with one homer and three RBIs in 14 games. But Walker credits a simpler approach at the plate for the turnaround. "I'm just trying to keep it simple, man," he said. "I can't think too much about mechanics in the box and just go up there and swing it, and what happens, happens."

Brayan Bello takes the mound Sunday afternoon against Andre Pallante in the series finale. The Red Sox are chasing their second straight series win and their first one on the road this season. This team has momentum now, and St. Louis needs to figure out how to slow them down.

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