Cardinals righthander John Gant made his first career start against the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday afternoon. But it wasn’t as if he hadn’t seen them, and hadn’t dominated them before, at Busch Stadium.
As a reliever, which he has been mostly for the Cardinals since they got him in December 2016, from Atlanta, Gant had held the Reds to just two hits in 35 at-bats at Busch. As a starter, which he says he enjoys because he gets to play for two hours rather than 20 minutes or less as a reliever, Gant accomplished much the same thing Saturday.