Adam Wainwright earned his 200th career victory. The Cardinals legend led St. Louis to a 1-0 shutout win over the Brewers at Busch Stadium. Wainwright earned the win after tossing seven innings of scoreless innings. Ryan Helsley notched a four-out save. Willson Contreras provided all the offense in the game with a solo home run in the fourth inning.
Wainwright becomes the third St. Louis Cardinals pitcher to reach 200 wins. Jesse Haines was the first. He pitched from 1920-37 for the Cardinals and finished with 210 career wins and 158 losses in his 18 years in a Cardinals uniform.
Bob Gibson became the second, racking up 251 wins over 17 seasons from 1959-to-1975. Gibby had 174 losses.
While Haines (3,208.2) and Gibson (3,884.1) threw more innings than Wainwright (2,668.1 and counting), Wainwright has the best winning percentage of the trio in the 200-win club.
Wainwright has a winning percentage of .610 as he wraps up year 18. Haines and Gibson are .571 and .591 respectively.
St. Louis improved to 67-and-83. Drew Rom goes for his second career win when the Cards host Milwaukee tonight.
In other team news, reliever Giovanny Gallegos’ season is over after he was placed on the injured list with a rotator cuff injury yesterday.
