ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Interstat) — Luis Gastelum threw 1.1 hitless innings in relief to earn the win as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-5 on Thursday at Busch Stadium III.

St. Louis jumped ahead with three runs in the second inning on Blaze Jordan’s three-run home run and extended the lead to 5-0 in the fourth on Ramon Urias’s two-run shot. Baltimore scored once in the fifth, but St. Louis answered in the bottom half. Coby Mayo’s three-run homer in the seventh pulled the Orioles within 6-4, and Gunnar Henderson’s RBI double in the eighth made it 6-5 before Nathan Church’s run-scoring single in the bottom of the eighth gave the Cardinals a two-run edge.

Gastelum (4-3) allowed no hits and struck out two. Trevor Rogers (9-9) took the loss after allowing six earned runs in five innings. Riley O’Brien earned his 34th save with a scoreless ninth. Gordon Graceffo struck out four over three hitless innings in relief. Baltimore had seven hits; St. Louis had nine.

The Cardinals improved to 67-69. Baltimore fell to 65-70. Attendance was 20,723, and the game lasted 2:37.