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St. Louis' Alec Burleson, who also had three
hits, went deep to lead off the third inning with his
team-leading 20th homer of the season.
Victor Scott II ripped a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth
inning for the Cardinals, who rode a 13-hit attack into their
third win in four games.
Michael Massey (3-for-4) drove in two runs and Kyle Isbel,
Salvador Perez and Maikel Garcia each added an RBI for the
Royals, who have lost three of their past four games.
Kansas City scored five consecutive runs to claim a 5-3 lead
before Paul Goldschmidt scored on a groundout by Tommy Pham to
halve the Cardinals' deficit in the sixth inning. St. Louis
pulled ahead in the eighth after Scott's double into the right
field corner off Chris Stratton plated Brendan Donovan and Pham.
Both runs were charged to Will Smith (0-4).
The late uprising made a winner of Matthew Liberatore (3-3), who
struck out three batters over three scoreless, hitless innings
of relief of Miles Mikolas.
Andrew Kittredge bridged the gap to Ryan Helsley, who induced
Vinnie Pasquantino to ground into a game-ending double play to
secure his 37th save of the season.
Kansas City erased an early three-run deficit by scoring three
runs in the third inning off Mikolas. Garcia singled and scored
on Isbel's triple to the base of the wall in right-center field.
Isbel came home on Massey's single to center. Massey advanced to
second on a groundout and came around to score on Perez's
two-out single to left field, forging a 3-3 tie.
Garcia gave Kansas City the lead when his RBI double plated MJ
Melendez in the fourth inning. Garcia later scored on Massey's
sacrifice fly to increase the Royals' advantage to 5-3.
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