ST. LOUIS — — Willson Contrerashomered twice, pinch-hitter Tommy Edmansingled in the winning run in the 10th inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 6-5 on Tuesday night to snap a four-game losing streak.
Edman slammed the first pitch from Josh Hader (0-2) to left field with one out to bring in Maysn Winn.
Contreras has 15 homers. He has recorded three multi-homer games this season and 14 overall. He becomes only the second St. Louis catcher to have three multi-homer games in the same season. Tom Pagnozzi did it in 1996.
JoJo Romero (4-1) struck out two batters in the 10th.
Zach Thompson worked 4 innings, allowing 3 runs on five hits, three strikeouts and four walks.
St. Louis RHP Miles Mikolas (6-10, 4.66) will face San Diego LHP Rich Hill (7-13, 5.21) in the finale of the three-game series Wednesday afternoon, 12:20 with the pregame and the first pitch at 1:15 on KIRX.