San Francisco treat: Cards' Sonny Gray to make first career road start vs. Giants

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Longtime Athletics ace Sonny Gray remarkably will make his first career start in San Francisco against the Giants on Wednesday night.

The Cardinals (78-80) rallied from five runs down to overtake the Giants 9-8 on Tuesday night, eliminating San Francisco (77-81) from postseason contention.

St. Louis has the slimmest of life left in the race for the third Nationa