Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 91°
Umpires: Home - Jim Wolf, 1B - Emil Jimenez, 2B - Sean Barber, 3B - Alan Porter
Attendance: 41452
Jose Altuve and Jose Abreu drove in three runs each and the visiting Houston Astros used a five-run eighth inning to rally past the St. Louis Cardinals 10-7 on Wednesday.
Altuve hit a three-run homer in the eighth after missing two games with a sore heel. Abreu added a two-run homer later in the inning to his first-inning sacrifice fly as he reached the 900-RBI mark for his career.
Martin Maldonado hit a two-run double for the Astros, who erased a 7-5 eighth-inning deficit to earn just their fourth victory in their last 12 games.
Astros starting pitcher Cristian Javier allowed six runs on eight hits, a walk and a hit batter in four innings. Seth Martinez (2-3) earned the victory and Ryan Pressly banked his 15th save.
Nolan Arenado hit a three-run homer for the Cardinals before exiting with lower back tightness. Paul Goldschmidt went 3-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs.
Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas allowed five runs on seven hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings. Giovanny Gallegos (1-4) took the loss after giving up all five of the Astros' eighth-inning runs.
The Astros took a quick 3-0 lead. After Altuve led off the game with a double, Alex Bregman walked and Kyle Tucker hit an RBI double.
Abreu followed with a sacrifice fly and Jeremy Pena hit an RBI single one out later.
But the Cardinals surged ahead 4-3 in their half of the inning on Arenado's three-run homer and Alec Burleson's RBI double.
Goldschmidt made it 5-3 with his second-inning homer. The Cardinals added a run in the fourth when Burleson was hit by a pitch and eventually scored on Goldschmidt's single.
The Astros chased Mikolas with a two-out rally in the sixth inning. Bligh Madris hit a double, Jake Meyers walked and Maldonado hit a double to cut the deficit to 6-5.
Brendan Donovan made it 7-5 with a homer in the bottom of the inning.
But the Astros rallied in the eighth inning on a single by Madris, a walk to Meyers and Altuve's homer. After Tucker doubled with two outs, Abreu followed with his homer to round out the scoring.
--Field Level Media
| Houston | St. Louis | |
| Cristian Javier | Player | Miles Mikolas |
| No Decision | W/L | No Decision |
| 4.0 | IP | 5.2 |
| 1 | Strikeouts | 4 |
| 8 | Hits | 7 |
| 13.50 | ERA | 7.94 |
| Houston | St. Louis | |
| Kyle Tucker | Player | Paul Goldschmidt |
| 3 | Hits | 3 |
| 1 | RBI | 2 |
| 0 | HR | 1 |
| 5 | TB | 6 |
| .600 | Avg | .600 |