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Marcell Ozuna and Kolten Wong each had
three-run homers in the nightcap.
Both teams entered the two-game series having lost their past
five series.
Adam Wainwright (4-4) picked up the win for St. Louis, but it
wasn't easy. He gave up three runs on six hits and four walks in
five innings. Wainwright struck out two and hit a batter.
The Royals won the first game 8-2 behind Brad Keller, who gave
up two runs on two hits over seven-plus innings. Jorge Soler's
three-run home run keyed a six-run third inning.
In the second game, Kansas City's Homer Bailey (4-5) allowed
five runs on four hits and two walks in just 1 2/3 innings. He
threw 66 pitches. Bailey is now 6-16 all-time against the
Cardinals.
Ozuna hit a three-run home run in the first inning. The left
fielder, who drove in both of the Cardinals' runs in the first
game, capped a 12-pitch at-bat by sending Bailey's 94 mph
fastball into the seats in right, his 14th home run of the
season.
Wainwright stroked a one-out single in the second, and he scored
on Matt Carpenter's sixth home run that just cleared the right
field fence.
The Royals got a couple of runs back in the third. Whit
Merrifield led off with a double and stole third, then scored on
a single by Adalberto Mondesi, who became the seventh Royal to
reach 40 RBIs before June 1. Soler singled home Mondesi for the
second run.
Dozier then launched a 427-foot home run in the fifth to cut the
deficit to 5-3.
In the sixth, Dexter Fowler greeted reliever Richard Lovelady
with a home run into the Cardinals' bullpen on the first pitch
he faced to give the Cards a 6-3 lead. Wong's home run was part
of a four-run seventh.
--Field Level Media
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