CINCINNATI _ For his first win of the season, Dakota Hudson did what so many of his peers on the pitching staff have with groundball after groundball, zero after zero, and, this time around, deeper into the game.
He just had more support to show for it.
Paul DeJong hit his first career grand slam to catapult the Cardinals and Hudson to a 7-5 victory Monday against Cincinnati at the Great American Ball Park. DeJong's four RBIs and Paul Goldschmidt's five time on base highlighted a second consecutive day with a pulse for the Cardinals' lineup after a week groping for production.