The chalked-in batters boxes on either side of home plate at the first of six aligned pitching mounds in the back of the St. Louis Cardinals’ complex told a different story. If the chalk is down, Sonny Gray is going to throw, and what might have been an off day instead became a pure distillation of a work day.

Sonny Gray, the frontrunner to start Opening Day for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2025, said he felt "great" physically on Wednesday after his first spring start, an outing in which he focused on refining his pitch sequence,

Sonny Gray strikes out three batters over 2 1/3 innings in his first spring start against the Astros