Bats of Martinez, Pujols combine to bury Pirates

The Pirates scored three times in the sixth inning but it wasn't enough.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Tino Martinez is in a good spot these days -- hitting right behind Albert Pujols in St. Louis' lineup.
Martinez and Pujols combined for eight hits and six RBI Saturday as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 13-8.
"It's always fun to hit," Martinez said. "It's a great lineup to hit in to begin with. But hitting behind Albert, you know he's going to be on base all the time."
Hot-hittin' Albert
That was the case Saturday. Pujols went 4-for-5 with two doubles to increase his major league-leading average to .376.
He now has an NL-high 44 multihit games and has hit in at least 10 straight games for the third time this season. Pujols is second to Preston Wilson in the NL with 96 RBIs.
"He's a phenomenon because he's so young," Pittsburgh manager Lloyd McClendon said. "We didn't do a very good job against him."
Martinez went 4-for-5 with two RBIs, Edgar Renteria added three hits and Scott Rolen hit a three-run homer for St. Louis, which got 19 hits.
"That's pretty good after a tough game last night, Pujols said. "We needed to come out and score right away."
The hit everyone was talking about, however, was Jason Isringhausen's bases-loaded triple in the eighth for his first hit with the Cardinals.
"I haven't hit since '98," Isringhausen said. "I was told not to swing, but I just couldn't help myself."
Isringhausen got an out in the eighth and gave up two runs in the ninth before financing for his eighth save in nine opportunities
Cardinals swinging away.
Cardinals starter Woody Williams (14-3) benefited from St. Louis' offensive outburst. He won his fourth straight start, allowing five runs and eight hits over a shaky 52/3 innings.
"I was lucky to get a win," Williams said.
The Cardinals scored seven runs off Pittsburgh starter Josh Fogg (6-5), who is 1-4 with an 8.49 ERA in six career starts against the Cardinals. Fogg lasted only four innings and allowed 10 hits.
The loss snapped the Pirates' three-game winning streak.
"Our offense did a great job, but I was lousy," Fogg said. "I didn't have anything. I couldn't get my fastball over and I couldn't keep my curveball down. You have to have something out there and I didn't have anything."
How it happened
Pittsburgh scored runs in the first and second innings on RBI singles by Brian Giles and Jason Kendall. But Williams blanked the Pirates over the next three innings, allowing only one hit in that span.
After Pujols tied the game in the first inning with an RBI single, he gave the Cardinals the lead for good in the second with a two-run, two-out double over Matt Stairs' head in left field. Pujols then scored on a ground-rule double to left by Martinez to make it 4-2.
Rolen gave St. Louis a 7-2 lead with his 21st homer, a three-run shot to left-center with two outs in the fourth.
The Pirates chased Williams in the sixth by scoring three times on a two-run single by Jeff Reboulet and an RBI single by Abraham Nunez.
But the Cardinals got two of those runs back in the bottom of the inning on RBI hits by Pujols and Martinez off Pirates reliever Julian Tavarez.
Pittsburgh added a run in the seventh on Jose Hernandez's RBI groundout off Jason Simontacchi.
PITTSBURGHST. LOUIS
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Kendall c4021Hart 2b6220
ANunez ss4131JDrew cf4320
BGiles cf4011Pujols lf5344
Stairs lf2000TMrtnz 1b5142
RSndrs lf2110Rolen 3b3213
CWilsn rf4321Rnteria ss5131
Simon 1b5000EduPrz rf2010
JHrndz 3b5221OPlmro rf2000
Rboulet 2b5012Mtheny c4110
Fogg p2000WWlms p3000
Snchez p0000Kline p0000
Rivera ph1100Stcchi p1000
Tvarez p0000Isrnghs p1013
Hyzdu ph1000
Beimel p0000
Totals398127Totals41131913
Pittsburgh110003102--8
St. Louis13030204x--13
E--JHernandez (8). DP--Pittsburgh 1. LOB--Pittsburgh 9, St. Louis 9. 2B--RSanders (13), CWilson 2 (11), JHernandez (12), Pujols 2 (37), TMartinez (18), Renteria 2 (29), EduPerez (11). 3B--ANunez (2), Isringhausen (1). HR--Rolen (21). S--EduPerez.
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Pittsburgh
Fogg L,6-54107712
Sanchez120001
Tavarez242200
Beimel134421
St. Louis
WWilliams W,14-35 2-385534
Kline000010
Simontacchi221101
Isringhausen S,81 1-322202
Kline pitched to 1 batter in the 6th. HBP--by WWilliams (CWilson), by Fogg (Rolen). WP--Isringhausen. Umpires--Home, Paul Emmel; First, Bill Miller; Second, Jeff Kellogg; Third, Joe West. T--2:57. A--44,249.
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