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Wetherholt homers twice against Guardians
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Cardinals rookie JJ Wetherholt homered twice, second baseman Juan Brito allowed Masyn Winn's potential game-ending grounder to bounce into right field and St. Louis stopped a three-game losing streak when it rallied to beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-5 in 10 innings on Tuesday night.
Wetherholt had his first multi-homer game, going deep for the first time since homering in his debut on opening day. His solo homer off Joey Cantillo tied the score 2-2 in the third and his two-run drive against Erik Sabrowski cut the Cardinals' deficit to 5-4 in the eighth.
With two outs in the ninth, Winn reached when his two-hopper hit off Winn's left wrist for just the sixth error by Cleveland this season. Winn advanced on Cade Smith's wild pitch and scored on Yohel Pozo's opposite-field double that bounced to the right-center field wall.
Riley O'Brien (2-0) pitched a perfect 10th, stranding automatic runner Chase DeLauter at third when Brito grounded out.
Automatic runner Thomas Saggese advanced to third in the bottom half on a wild pitch by Tim Herrin (0-1) and scored with a headfirst slide, just beating the throw from right fielder Angel Martinez on Nathan Church's sacrifice fly.
Iv'n Herrera hit his first home run this season for St. Louis, which improved to 4-0 in extra innings with its seventh comeback win.
Jose Ramirez hit a first-inning homer off Michael McGreevy and with 288 moved past Bernie Williams and Bobby Bonilla into sole possession of 11th place among switch-hitters.
Cleveland opened a 5-2 lead in the eighth on George Valera's tiebreaking double and MartÌnez's two-run double.
Cleveland RHP Slade Cecconi (0-2, 5.74 ERA) goes against St. Louis RHP Dustin May (1-2, 9.45) on Wednesday.
Nationals knock off Pirates
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- CJ Abrams went 3 for 4 with a home run, a double and two RBIs as the Washington Nationals held off the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4 on Tuesday night.
Abrams hit a solo shot down the left-field line in the fourth inning to extend the Nationals' lead to 4-1. He also hit the third of three consecutive RBI singles in the first inning, following Brady House and Daylen Lile, as Washington took a 3-0 lead.
The shortstop is 9 for 17 in his last five games with three home runs and seven RBIs.
Recalled from Triple-A Syracuse earlier in the day, left-hander Mitchell Parker (1-0) struck out five in two scoreless innings of relief as the Nationals won for the fourth time in five games.
Gus Varland pitched a scoreless ninth for his second save, working around a double and a walk.
Brandon Lowe and Joey Bart hit solo homers for the Pirates. It was Lowe's seventh of the season.
Lowe became just the fourth Pirates player to hit at least four home runs and drive in 11 runs in a three-game span. Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner did it in 1947 and 1949, and Jose Castillo did it in 2006.
Pittsburgh's Marcell Ozuna, who entered the game with a .070 batting average, had two hits and his first RBI of the season. Oneil Cruz's 12-game hitting streak ended as he went 0 for 5.
Left-hander P.J. Poulin opened for the Nationals and gave up Lowe's homer. Miles Mikolas followed and allowed three runs in 3 1/3 innings.
Mitch Keller (1-1) gave up five runs and six hits over four innings.
The start of the game was delayed 18 minutes because of rain.
Nationals RHP Jake Irvin (2-2, 7.09 ERA) will start on Wednesday night. The Pirates will use LHP Mason Montgomery as an opener.