The Cardinals beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 in extra innings on Friday night at Busch Stadium. Dustin May pitched 6 innings allowing 4 hits, 3 runs with 3 strikeouts, and 4 walks. May picked up his 6th quality start. Overall, the Cardinals have 16 quality starts.

In the bottom of the 4th inning, Jordan Walker (13) hit a two-run home run to tie the game 2-2.

Pedro Pages (4) hit a home run in the of the 5th inning to give the Cardinals a 3-2 lead.

The Royals were able to tie the game 3-3 on a groundout by Isaac Collins, which scored Vinnie Pasquantino in the top of the 6th inning.

The game ended up going into extra innings. In the top of the 10th inning, Bobby Witt Jr. got an RBI double (23), which scored ghost runner Makiel Garica and gave the Royals a 4-3 lead. The Cardinals returned the favor in the bottom of the 10th inning. Thomas Saggese pinch ran for ghost runner Ivan Herrera. Alec Burleson got an RBI base hit (31) to tie the game 4-4.

In the of the 11th inning, Nathan Church was the ghost runner at second. Pedro Pages hit a sacrifice bunt by to the pitcher, which advanced Church to third. Jose Fermin ended up grounding out to second base. The Royals intentionally walked JJ Wetherholt. Yohel Pozo pinch hit for Saggese. Pozo got a walk-off RBI (5) base hit to score Church and gave the Cardinals a 5-4 win.

Gorodon Gtaceffo (3-1) picked up the win.

The Cardinals are now 26-18. In extra innings, the Cardinals are 6-1. The Cardinals are now 10-3 in one run games. The Cardinals have 13 comeback wins.

Cardinals’ manager Oliver Marmol picked up his 351st win. Marmol, 39, ties Joe Torre for 9th in managerial wins in franchise history.

The Cardinals next game is Saturday afternoon at 1:15 pm.

The scheduled starting pitchers are

Noah Cameron (2-2), 5.55 ERA, 35.2 innings, 32 strikeouts, 14 walks, and a whip of 1.63 vs Kyle Leahy (4-3), 4.31 ERA, 39.2 innings, 32 strikeouts, 17 walks, and a whip of 1.59.