Cardinals Win, Cubs Don't Friday

ST. LOUIS--Jaime Garcia pitched eight innings of four-hit ball and helped himself with a RBI single in a 4-0 victory Friday that ended the Kansas City Royals' four-game winning streak in the opener of a high-profile interleague series.

Garcia worked more than seven innings for the first time since May 5, 2013, when he went eight in a 10-1 victory over Milwaukee.

Jon Jay snapped a 2-for-24 slump this month with a two-out RBI triple in the second off Yordano Ventura and Garcia followed with his 12th career RBI on an opposite-field single, his first since June 3, 2014, against Kansas City.

The Cardinals are 40-21 overall and 23-7 at home, both major league bests. They got a huge outing from Garcia (2-3), so far a success story off thoracic outlet surgery.

Today--KC at St. Louis, 3:10pm

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CHICAGO--Eugenio Suarez drove in Todd Frazier with an unearned tiebreaking run in the 10th inning, and banged-up Cincinnati rebounded for a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs for the Reds' fifth win in six games.

Suarez playing in his second game after being called up for injured shortstop Zack Cozart, singled on a 3-2 pitch through a drawn-in infield off Hector Rondon (3-1) for his first RBI with the Reds.

The Cubs had been down 4-2 before coming back to tie the game late, but a great catch by Jay Bruce took away what could have been the winning hit.

Cincinnati's J.J. Hoover (5-0) pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth for the win. Aroldis Chapman struck out two in the 10th for his 13th save in 14 chances.

Today--Cincinnati at Chicago, 6:15pm