SIDELINES : Coleman, Pendleton Hit Homers as Cards Pound Houston, 10-6
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ST. LOUIS — Vince Coleman and Terry Pendleton each homered, pacing a 10-hit St. Louis attack and Bryn Smith won his fifth game as the Cardinals defeated the slumping Houston Astros 10-6 today.
Smith, 5-3, had a no-hitter through five innings against the Astros, who have lost six in a row and nine of 10 and scored only 15 runs in their last eight games. He tired in the sixth when Rafael Ramirez hit a leadoff home run and ended up allowing six hits and five runs, three of them earned, in 6 2-3 innings.
Coleman batting eighth--the first time he’s started out of the leadoff spot in his career--responded with his first home run since Sept. 8. His two-run shot off Jim Deshaies, 1-2, highlighted a seven-run fifth.
Pendleton hit his second home run in the sixth. Willie McGee had a pair of RBI-doubles and Todd Zeile had a two-run double for the Cardinals.
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