TORONTO — With a road trip threatening to head south regardless of the direction their plane headed Wednesday night, the Cardinals got a lift from the usual veterans and a necessary jolt from a few youngsters.
Adam Wainwright and Albert Pujols, as they’ve done many times before, combined to hoist the Cardinals out of the doldrums and into a series split with Toronto.
The Cardinals got home runs from the oldest (Pujols) and youngest (Nolan Gorman) members of the lineup to catapult them to a 6-1 victory Wednesday at Rogers Centre. Pujols singled, doubled, and homered in his first three at-bats, and did not take a run at a triple. Wainwright pitched seven superb innings and struck out eight for his first win of the second half. The tight turnaround from Tuesday’s blowout loss to the Blue Jays gave the Cardinals a split of the two-game series in Toronto and a split of the four-game season series.
