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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Pittsburgh 14, St. Louis 5
When: 8:15 PM ET, Friday, June 29, 2012
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 101°
Umpires: Home - Ron Kulpa, 1B - D.J. Reyburn, 2B - Jim Wolf, 3B - Derryl Cousins
Attendance: 45382

Pirates 14, Cardinals 5:
Clint Barmes, Alex Presley and Garrett Jones homered in a four-run sixth as the visiting Pirates took the opener of a key NL Central showdown.

The contest was tied 5-5 when Barmes and Presley opened the inning with consecutive solo shots off a tiring Adam Wainwright (6-8). Jones capped the scoring with his 10th homer, a two-run blast off reliever Eduardo Sanchez.

Pittsburgh won its third straight and has scored 30 runs in the streak. Andrew McCutchen went 4-for-5 with a three-run homer and four runs scored.

Opening a season-high 10-game homestand, St. Louis dropped its second straight after a five-game win streak. The defeat dropped the Cardinals 1 1/2 games behind the Pirates for second place in the division.

The Cardinals scored four in the third, highlighted by Allen Craig’s 408-foot, three-run homer, to lead 5-2. Pittsburgh tied it in the fifth when Pedro Alvarez cleared the bases with a double into the right-field corner. Alvarez finished with four RBIs after drawing a bases-loaded walk in the eighth.

Kevin Correia (4-6) picked up the win despite allowing five runs in five innings.

Neil Walker’s two-run single gave Pittsburgh the first-inning lead. Carlos Beltran tied it 2-2 with a third-inning RBI single, the 2000th hit of his career. Craig followed with his 10th homer.

GAME NOTEBOOK:
Pittsburgh improved to 3-4 this season against St. Louis. … Barmes was hitting .196 at the time of his tie-breaking homer. … It was 105 degrees at first pitch.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Pittsburgh   St. Louis
Kevin Correia Player Adam Wainwright
Win W/L Loss
5.0 IP 5.0
3 Strikeouts 7
6 Hits 11
9.00 ERA 12.60
Hitting
Pittsburgh   St. Louis
Andrew McCutchen Player Allen Craig
4 Hits 2
3 RBI 3
1 HR 1
8 TB 6
.800 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Pittsburgh 19 4 33 .413 21 8 14 5 0 0
St. Louis 7 1 11 .206 9 8 5 2 0 0