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Christian Kross and rookie Turner Hill each added two hits and
drove in two runs, helping the Giants snap a four-game losing
streak. Hill hit his first career home run in the ninth.
Alex Burleson hit a two-out homer, his 23rd of the season, in
the first inning. He has driven in league-leading 111 runs.
Blade Tidwell (1-2) allowed two runs on three hits over 6 2/3
innings. Since his Aug. 4 recall, the Giants are 2-6 in his
eight starts, with both wins coming against the Cardinals.
Andre Pallante (12-7) lasted five innings, allowing eight hits
and eight runs, six earned. He had allowed just one run or less
in four of his last five starts.
The Giants got off to a fast start. Eldridge, who didn’t play on
Monday, hit the longest home run this season at Busch Stadium
when he smacked a 2-1 slider 461 feet deep into the right field
bleachers. That snapped a 48-inning homerless streak by Pallante.
Turner Hill’s single scored Jonah Cox, who had reached first on
a catcher’s interference call and then stole second, giving the
Giants a 3-0 lead.
San Francisco stretched its lead to 7-1 with four runs in the
third.
A two-out double by Osleivis Basabe scored Eldridge in the
fourth, extending the lead to 8-2.
The teams each scored in the eighth. Eldridge doubled home a run
and Nolan Gorman drove in a run for St. Louis.
Up next
Giants RHP Anthony Munoz (3-1, 5.24 ERA) starts Wednesday in the
series finale opposite Cardinals LHP Matthew Liberatore (5-14,
5.53).
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