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Nolan Gorman added a solo home run and had two hits for the
Cardinals, who gained a split in the two-game set. The teams
have split four games this season.
The Blue Jays were held to five hits as their seven-game winning
streak ended.
The Cardinals, who had 13 hits, had lost their two previous
games.
Wainwright (7-8) allowed one run, five hits and no walks while
striking out eight.
Toronto right-hander Kevin Gausman (7-8) allowed five runs,
eight hits and one walk with six strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
Gorman led off the third with a single, stole second and scored
on Dylan Carlson's two-out double.
Pujols doubled to open the fourth, his second hit of the game.
He was thrown out at home by Teoscar Hernandez on Brendan
Donovan's single to right. Donovan scored on a double to right
by Lars Nootbaar, who was out trying to reach third.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who extended his hit streak to eight
games with a first-inning double, singled with one out in the
fourth. He stole second when Alejandro Kirk struck out and
scored on Bo Bichette's single through the left side of the
infield.
Gorman led off the fifth with his 10th homer of the season, a
drive to left. Andrew Knizner doubled and took third on a flyout.
When Tyler O'Neill walked with two out, Trevor Richards replaced
Gausman and gave up Pujols' seventh homer of the season.
Richards pitched around a sixth-inning single. Jeremy Beasley
allowed only a hit batter in the top of the seventh. Anthony
Banda worked around a walk and two singles in the top of the
eighth.
The Cardinals' Giovanny Gallegos pitched a perfect bottom of the
eighth with one strikeout.
David Phelps pitched a clean top of the ninth inning for
Toronto.
Ryan Helsley was perfect in the bottom of the ninth with two
strikeouts for St. Louis.
--Field Level Media
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