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 Breaking a Busch Stadium III record with six homers, St. Louis
walloped the Cincinnati Reds 14-3 for its sixth win in seven games.
Matt Holliday belted two homers, including a 449-foot solo shot in
the sixth inning that gave him the 20th multi-homer game of his
career.
Randal Grichuk clubbed his second homer in as many games to lead off
the seventh and pinch-hitter Brandon Moss drilled the Cardinals'
third three-run homer of the night to cap the team's second four-run
uprising of the game.
Another pinch-hitter, Matt Adams, finished the scoring with a
two-run shot to right in the eighth, the Cardinals' sixth
pinch-homer in 16 at-bats this season. St. Louis (6-4) has scored at
least 10 runs in four of its last six games.
 Carlos Martinez (2-0) cruised to the win, allowing six hits and
three runs with a walk and six strikeouts in seven innings.
Rookie Tim Melville (0-1) lasted just three innings for Cincinnati,
giving up six hits and seven runs (six earned) with three walks and
two strikeouts.
It was the fourth straight loss for the Reds (5-5) on their six-game
road trip, on which they've been outscored by a cumulative 36-9.
St. Louis initiated the scoring with four first-inning runs, the
third time this week it has scored multiple runs in its first
at-bats.
Holliday followed consecutive walks to Matt Carpenter and Jeremy
Hazelbaker with his first homer, a three-run blast to center. Yadier
Molina's single scored Grichuk to complete the outburst.
Cincinnati responded in the third with Joey Votto's first homer, a
three-run shot that barely made it over the left-field wall. It
followed two-out bloop singles by Zack Cozart and Eugenio Suarez.
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The Cardinals made it 7-3 when Aledmys Diaz rocketed his own
three-run homer into the seats in left, his second of the year. It
came after Molina's double, giving him multiple hits in all four
games of the homestand, and a single by Kolten Wong.
NOTES: Cincinnati LHP John Lamb (back) is scheduled to begin a rehab
assignment at Triple-A Louisville on Saturday night. Lamb, who had
surgery on Dec. 7, didn't pitch in a game during spring training.
... St. Louis SS Ruben Tejada (left quad strain) went 1-for-3 with a
double in the first game of his rehab assignment at Double-A
Springfield on Thursday night. ... Reds RHP Homer Bailey (elbow) is
slated to throw three innings in extended spring training on
Saturday in Goodyear, Ariz.
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