ST. LOUIS (Interstat) — The St. Louis Cardinals scored three runs in the sixth inning and held on to defeat the Cleveland Guardians 5-3 on Wednesday afternoon at Busch Stadium.

Dustin May earned the win for St. Louis, allowing one earned run over six innings. Cleveland took an early lead on Kyle Manzardo’s first-inning RBI single. The Cardinals tied it in the second on a Pedro Pagés single before Alec Burleson’s two-run single in the sixth put them ahead for good. Cleveland’s Bo Naylor tied it with a two-run double in the seventh, but Nathan Church answered with a go-ahead RBI double in the bottom half. Riley O’Brien struck out two in a perfect ninth for the save.

Attendance was 22,642. The Cardinals improved to 10-8, while the Guardians fell to 10-9.