Cardinals bash past Diamondbacks 11-4

St. Louis Cardinals' Adam Wainwright (50) celebrates his run scored against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the sixth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 27, 2016, in Phoenix. Wainright had a three-run triple in the inning as well.
St. Louis Cardinals' Adam Wainwright (50) celebrates his run scored against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the sixth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 27, 2016, in Phoenix. Wainright had a three-run triple in the inning as well.

PHOENIX (AP) — Adam Wainwright pitched into the sixth inning for his first win and hit a three-run triple in St. Louis' fifth straight offensive outburst, lifting the Cardinals to an 11-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night.

St. Louis scored 18 combined runs in two games to close out a sweep over San Diego and had 15 in splitting the first two against Arizona.

The Cardinals kept bashing, knocking around Patrick Corbin (1-3) and finishing with 14 hits, four by Stephen Piscotty.

Aledmys Diaz homered, scored three runs and had two RBIs for the Cardinals, who have won four of five. Piscotty, Matt Carpenter and Matt Holiday also drove in two runs each.

Wainwright (1-3) gave up homers to Brandon Drury and Paul Goldschmidt but ended his worst start since 2012 behind the Cardinals' big run support. He allowed four runs on seven hits and struck out five in 5 1/3 innings.

Wainwright has struggled since missing most of last season with an Achilles tendon injury, in part because of an inability to miss bats.

The two-time NL Cy Young Award runner up failed to strike out more than three batters in four straight starts for the first time since 2007. Wainwright, who has never had an ERA over 4.00 in a full season, has allowed at least three runs in every start this season and entered Wednesday's game with a 7.25 ERA.

Drury certainly didn't miss a hanging curveball by Wainwright in the second inning, lining it over the left field wall for a two-run homer.

Goldschmidt hit a ball even harder in the fourth inning, sending a towering solo homer to the deepest part of the park to put Arizona up 3-1.

But Corbin had his own struggles.

The left-hander limited the Cardinals to a run after scuffling in the first inning but couldn't make it out of the sixth. St. Louis scored five runs in the inning — highlighted by Wainwright's three-run triple over third base — to take a 7-3 lead.

Corbin allowed seven runs on seven hits and walked five in 5 2/3 innings.

Wainwright was pulled after David Peralta's run-scoring single in the sixth cut the Cardinals' lead to 7-4.

The Cardinals added to their lead in the seventh on Diaz's run-scoring single and a two-run single by Carpenter.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Diamondbacks: RHP Josh Collmenter (shoulder) is scheduled to pitch in an extended spring training game on Thursday before going to Class A Visalia on a rehab assignment.

Cardinals: Holliday was back in the lineup after leaving Tuesday's game with leg cramps.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: RHP Michael Wacha is 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA in his last three starts headed into Thursday's series finale.

Diamondbacks: RHP Rubby De La Rosa has allowed one hit by a right-hander in their last 19 at-bats against him headed into Thursday's start against the Cardinals.

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