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Willson Contreras also hit a home run for the
Cardinals, who snapped a three-game losing streak.
Cardinals starting pitcher Miles Mikolas allowed three runs on
seven hits in six innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Reliever Ryan Helsley (4-3) pitched the ninth inning to earn the
victory.
Lane Thomas had two doubles and an RBI for the Nationals, who
lost for the fourth time in six games.
Nationals starting pitcher DJ Herz held the Cardinals to two
runs on three hits in five innings. He struck out eight batters
and walked one.
St. Louis moved ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the first inning on
Contreras' 150th career homer, a 406-foot blast into the third
deck in left field.
The Cardinals increased their lead to 2-0 in the second inning.
Lars Nootbaar walked and came around to score on Pedro Pages'
triple into the right-center field gap.
Washington answered in the third inning. Riley Adams drew a
leadoff walk, went to third on Jacob Young's double and scored
on CJ Abrams' groundout.
Thomas followed with an RBI double to tie the game 2-2.
James Wood hit a leadoff triple in the sixth inning and scored
on Juan Yepez's sacrifice fly to put the Nationals up 3-2.
The Nationals threatened to add on in the seventh inning. Young
hit a leadoff single, then stole second and third base.
But Thomas flew out and Woods grounded out to strand him.
The Cardinals tied the game 3-3 in the bottom of the inning.
Nootbaar walked, went to third on Pages' single and scored on
Michael Siani's single.
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