Renteria, Rolen Power Cardinals

Edgar Renteria got the St. Louis Cardinals back in the game. Scott Rolen put them ahead.

Renteria hit a grand slam and Rolen had the first pinch-hit homer of his career, and the Cardinals rallied from a five-run deficit to defeat the Cincinnati Reds, 10-5, Wednesday night at St. Louis.

Renteria set a career high with five runs batted in, Albert Pujols got a career-best four hits, and Tino Martinez homered for the National League Central leaders, who have staged 36 come-from-behind victories this season.

“We never put our heads down,� Renteria said. “We know we have a good team and we have a good bullpen. So if we score some runs, we’ve got time to come back. We knew we had to work hard every at-bat. That’s the way we do it.�

Jason LaRue hit a grand slam for the Reds.

With one out in the sixth, Rolen came up to hit for J.D. Drew against left-handed reliever Bruce Chen (2-5). Rolen hit the first pitch off the left-field foul screen for a 6-5 lead.

“That was one of those moves where everybody in the ballpark knew what I was going to do,� La Russa said. “He was trying to get ahead of Scott and Scott was ready to swing.�

Atlanta 6, Pittsburgh 0--Damian Moss pitched seven scoreless innings and Marcus Giles homered twice in front of 19,525, the second-smallest crowd at Atlanta’s Turner Field.

Moss (10-5) won his third consecutive start and became the fourth Brave starter to reach double figures in victories, joining Tom Glavine, Kevin Millwood and Greg Maddux.

The Braves had gone 16 innings without scoring against the Pirates until scoring in the sixth.

New York 11, Florida 3--Rey Ordonez slapped an intended pitchout for a go-ahead single and Mike Piazza homered at New York.

The Mets won consecutive games at Shea Stadium for the first time since July 22-23.

Montreal 8, Philadelphia 5--Andres Galarraga doubled twice and had four RBIs at Montreal, and the Expos overcame Phillie starter Vicente Padilla’s three-run double.

Galarraga hit a two-run double against Padilla (14-9) and the Expos scored four runs in the fifth to take a 5-3 lead.

San Diego 5, Houston 1--Brett Tomko (9-8) came within two out of his first shutout in 120 career starts, giving up six hits at San Diego for his third complete game this season.

Only one Astro runner made it as far as third base before Jeff Bagwell’s 26th homer in the ninth.

Chicago 3, Milwaukee 0--Carlos Zambrano pitched eight shutout innings at Chicago to end his five-game losing streak, and Moises Alou had four hits for the Cubs.

Zambrano (3-6), who retired 13 of the first 15 batters, struck out six and walked four in his longest career outing.