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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — JJ Wetherholt hit a two-run homer and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Oakland Athletics 6-4 on Tuesday night. St. Louis scored four runs in the first inning: Jordan Walker drove in the first run with a single, José Fermín's double brought in two, and Yohel Pozo singled to score Fermín. Andre Pallante (4-3) struck out four and allowed four hits and three runs in five innings to earn the win, and Riley O'Brien worked around a leadoff walk in the ninth for his 12th save. Wetherholt's shot to right off Joel Kuhnel in the sixth put the Cardinals ahead 6-3. Nick Kurtz answered for Oakland with an RBI single in the second that extended his on-base streak to 35 games, the longest by an Athletics player since Jack Cust's 40-game run from 2008-09 and the fourth-longest for the franchise this century. Shea Langeliers added an RBI double in the second and later hit a 448-foot homer in the eighth. Jeffrey Springs (3-3) gave up four runs in five innings, and the A's were limited to six hits. Iván Herrera had two of St. Louis' 10 hits, and the Cardinals went 3-for-11 with runners in scoring position. St. Louis snapped a two-game skid and improved its major-league-best road record to 14-7. Left-hander Matthew Liberatore (2-1, 4.07 ERA) gets the start for the Cardinals against J.T. Ginn (1-1, 3.62) for Oakland on Wednesday.

Prepared by Emily Rhodes and reviewed by editorial team.