PITTSBURGH (Interstat) — Rookie Nathan Church ended the game by robbing Nick Gonzales of what would have been a game-ending, two-run homer, making a leaping catch at the left-field wall to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 5-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night at PNC Park.

Andre Pallante (3-2) earned the win, allowing one earned run on five hits over six innings with six strikeouts. Bubba Chandler (1-3) took the loss, surrendering three earned runs on three hits in five innings. Riley O’Brien notched his eighth save.

St. Louis took a 1-0 lead in the third on JJ Wetherholt’s RBI double. Alec Burleson’s two-run homer in the fifth made it 3-0. Spencer Horwitz answered with a solo shot for Pittsburgh. The Cardinals added two in the seventh on RBI singles by Iván Herrera and Jordan Walker. The Pirates cut the deficit to 5-3 in the bottom half on Nick Yorke’s two-run single, then pulled within one in the eighth on a forceout.

Attendance was 9,297. The game lasted 3:03. The Cardinals improved to 17-13; the Pirates fell to 16-15.