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.