Iván Herrera

Herrera’s two-homer game gives him a total of 18 this season. He hit a solo shot off Jake Irvin in the first inning and added another one off the bullpen in the eighth inning. Herrera’s home runs were his first since September 5, a span of 12 games. He’s hitting .247 with a .746 OPS and 68 RBI.

Herrera’s home run was his 16th of the season. He hit a two-run shot off Mason Adams in the fifth inning. Herrera also had an RBI single in the ninth inning as the Cardinals attempted a comeback. He’s hitting .248 with a .744 OPS and 62 RBI this year.

With the Cardinals trailing 6-4, Herrera became the hero with his three-run shot off Jordan Romano to give St. Louis the 7-6 lead and ultimately the victory. It’s the 15th homer for the 26-year-old, and he’s now slashing .246/.359/.380 on the year. You’d like to see that slugging percentage a few — or 40 — points higher, but Herrera has put together a solid if unspectacular campaign in 2026.

Herrera is showing a little extra heat over the past 15 games, hitting .286/.318/.460 with a homer and a stolen base after a long dry spell in July. He’s still a reliable starting catcher in 12-team leagues, but it’s been a bumpy ride of late. Maybe this will get him going.

Herrera’s day started with a popup to short that dropped in and included three more singles afterwards. It was actually his hardest hit ball of the day, a 105-mph grounder, that produced his only out. Herrera went 8-for-14 with a homer and two doubles in the series against the Rockies, raising his OPS from .728 to .752.

While the Cardinals were held to just four hits in this game, they made them count. None more so than Herrera who tacked on their third run by the second inning with a solo home run. That stood as their final run of the game as they narrowly hung on to win and Herrera hopes this will help him break out of his prolonged slump. Over his last 30 games, he has 31 strikeouts and a .536 OPS.

This was an unbelievable baseball game. Tied 0-0 after nine, Pete Crow-Armstrong swatted a two-run home run in the top of the 10th to give the Cubs a commanding lead. Facing a sweep and swirling rumors about teammates being traded, the Cardinals rallied for three in the bottom of the inning with Herrera’s walk-off double landing the final blow. It was his second of two doubles – with the first being hit 111 mph – and saved the day. Herrera himself has been at the center of some recent rumors and hopes to get off the schneid after putting up a .545 OPS over his last 30 games.

As dynasty managers are aware, St. Louis has one of the most exciting offensive catching prospects in the game looming in the upper minors with Rainiel Rodriguez. That could make either Herrera or Páges viable trade options ahead of next week’s deadline. It doesn’t sound like anything is imminent, but there’s an opportunity for the Cardinals to move one of their veteran backstops with so many contending clubs searching for catching help.

It could have been an even better game, but his 106-mph liner in the fourth was hit right at TJ Friedl in center for an out. Herrera entered the night 7-for-51 with no extra-base hits and one RBI in his previous 13 games.

Herrera gets his first day off all season. Herrera is hitting .241/.366/.373 after a .200/.247/.253 cold streak through his first 19 games of July. He also has the lead league in double plays grounded into at 14.

Herrera has been struggling the last couple of weeks, but a four-strikeout game from a guy with a 16 percent K rate is pretty unexpected. He’d never had one previously in 301 games as a major leaguer. Herrera is 6-for-40 with no extra-base hits in his last 10 games.

It’s the first trip to the Mid-Summer Classic for the 26-year-old backstop. Herrera has had a solid first half at the plate, slashing .249/.384/.395 with 11 long balls, 40 RBI and a 68/51 K/BB ratio over 411 plate appearances.

Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast. The Cardinals scored multiple runs in every inning from the second to the sixth and Herrera was in the middle of most of those rallies. This was the second time this season he’s reached base four times in a single game and fourth time he’s scored three runs. It’s been a bit of a cold month power-wise for him with just three homers and a .349 slugging percentage over his past 30 days, but he remains one of the most productive catchers in the league.

Herrera’s three-run shot was one of four the Cardinals hit on the afternoon, a fifth-inning blast that gave them a 12-7 lead at the time. He has made 28 starts behind the plate this season but has been in the lineup and hit second in every game the team has played. He’s a high-end fantasy catcher from here on out.

He had a two-run homer off Connor Prielipp as the second batter of the game, and he broke a 4-4 tie with the first of back-to-back homers with Jordan Walker in the seventh. It’s Herrera’s second career multihomer game, though he hit three the other time on Apr. 2, 2025. He has nine homers on the year, and he’s currently seventh in the majors with a .400 OBP.

Herrera had gone just 4-for-25 in the month of June prior to this game, so perhaps this is the game that gets the 26-year-old going again. He singled twice and doubled; the latter being the 13th of the season. Herrera has put together a competent season despite the early struggles to begin the month with a .264 average and .803 OPS.

Herrera lost a seven-game hitting streak last night, but he made up for it today with one of his better games from the DH spot this year. He’s hitting .227 with 29 strikeouts in 144 plate appearances as a DH, compared to .328 with nine strikeouts in 79 plate appearances as a catcher. It’s probably something of a fluke, but it’s quite possible catching helps him stay in the flow of the game better. Still, even if that’s the case, Pedro Pages’ superiority on defense possibly outweighs the potential offensive gains.

Herrera’s fifth homer and first since Apr. 25 was a 410-foot blast off Mason Montgomery. It was his first career walkoff homer. There should be more power in the way, and in spite of the home run drought, he’s still at a solid .263/.391/.417 for the year.

All four hits were singles and only one was a hard-hit ball, but his roll continues. Herrera is batting .320 with three homers and seven doubles in his last 20 games.

Herrera turned a 1-0 lead into a 4-0 cushion with a three-run double off Chad Patrick. The 25-year-old has been able to drive in 17 runs over 35 games while posting a very solid .840 OPS.