ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brian Anderson and J.T. Riddle homered to help a shaky Jose Urena get his first win of the season as the Miami Marlins stopped a six-game losing streak with a 7-4 victory Tuesday night over the St. Louis Cardinals.

Anderson had a two-run homer and two singles for the Marlins, who had lost nine of 10.

In getting swept last weekend, the Marlins allowed 21 runs at Arizona and only scored four times. Miami entered the St. Louis series 1-6 on this road trip with a minus-22 run differential.

Urena (1-7) pitched five innings, allowing 10 hits and four runs for his first win in 13 starts. Miami lost his previous 14 starts — a dubious team record — dating back to Sept. 26 last year. Urena started on opening day this season but his last win came on Sept. 20, 2017.

Kyle Barraclough pitched the ninth for second save.

The Cardinals returned their opening day battery from the 10-day disabled list for the series opener with right-hander Carlos Martinez and catcher Yadier Molina coming back.

In his return, Martinez was not sharp. He made his first start in four weeks since straining his right lat muscle in a May 8 loss to Minnesota. Martinez threw 75 pitches, going four innings. He allowed four hits and two runs with five walks and five strikeouts. He was helped by three double plays.

Preston Guilmet (0-1) made his St Louis debut after the Cardinals called him up Tuesday from Triple-A Memphis. It was a forgettable one inning of work.

In his first game against his former team, St. Louis’ Marcell Ozuna went 3 for 4 with an RBI. In his last four games, Ozuna has gone 8 for 14, including a milestone 100th home run and grand slam, with six RBI.

The Marlins scored three runs off Guilmet for a 5-2 lead in the fifth. Derek Dietrich scored on a sacrifice fly by Justin Bour. Anderson hit a two-run homer that just cleared the fence in right field to score J.T. Realmuto.

St. Louis got two runs back in the fifth. Tommy Pham drove in a run with a bases-loaded fielder’s choice. Ozuna followed with a run-scoring single, but Urena picked Pham off third and got a groundout to end the inning.

Miami added two runs off reliever Austin Gomber in the sixth to make it 7-4. Riddle led off with a homer and J.B. Shuck scored on a sacrifice fly by Dietrich.

St. Louis took a 1-0 lead in the second when Ozuna ran through a stop sign at third to score on a single to left by Molina.

Miami scored twice in the third. Starlin Castro scored on a double play and Dietrich came home on Anderson’s infield single that hit Martinez’s glove and glanced off his shoulder.

The Cardinals made it 2-all in their half of the third. Matt Carpenter scored when Pham hit into a double play.

GOOD CATCH

Dietrich ran almost to the infield to make a sliding catch of a short fly to left hit by Jose Martinez in the first inning. Dietrich rolled over, popped up and fired to first base to double up Carpenter.

ROSTER MOVES

St. Louis optioned right-hander Mike Mayers to Triple-A Memphis, where catcher Steven Baron was designated for assignment to make room for Guilmet on the 40-man roster.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Marlins: RHP Nick Willgren is on the 10-day disabled list with a bruised right middle finger.

Cardinals: INF Greg Garcia has been placed on the paternity list. Garcia likely will return Thursday following the birth of his first child, a girl named Olivia.

UP NEXT

Marlins: LHP Wei-Yin Chen (1-3, 6.10 ERA) will be making his second career start at St. Louis and first since July 16, 2016. In his last start, Chen, the team’s oldest starting pitcher at 32, made the shortest start of his Marlins career, lasting 1 2/3 innings. He allowed four runs on four hits with two walks in an 8-3 loss at San Diego.

Cardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (2-1, 2.62) makes his first career start against Miami. In his last start, Flaherty did not earn a decision at Pittsburgh as he matched his shortest outing of the season (five innings).

— Asscoiated Press —

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Michael Wacha came close, again.

The St. Louis righty lost a no-hit bid in the ninth inning for the second time in his career, denied when pinch-hitter Colin Moran led off with a single Sunday in the Cardinals’ 5-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

“It’s just a slight disappointment because I wanted it,” Wacha said. “I’ve flirted with it a couple times. It just didn’t happen. Maybe next time.”

“I was trying to get a changeup down and away,” he said. “It ended up being middle-middle, just leaving it up in the zone. I gave him something he can handle.”

As a rookie in 2013, Wacha was one out away from a no-hitter when Washington’s Ryan Zimmerman got an infield single.

Wacha (7-1) came close to pitching the fourth no-hitter in the major leagues this season. He was in total control, striking out eight and walking two while mixing his fastball, curve and change.

Bud Smith was the last St. Louis pitcher to throw a no-hitter, doing it as a rookie in 2001 at San Diego. The last Cardinals pitcher to toss a no-hitter at home was Bob Forsch in 1983 against Montreal.

Wacha retired the first 13 batters, and the closest the Pirates had come to a hit was Josh Bell’s flyout to the warning track in the second inning until the ninth.

St. Louis catcher Francisco Pena appeared more disappointed than Wacha at missing a shot at history.

“By the sixth inning, I was thinking about it, I’m not going to lie,” Pena said. “I knew he could do it too because his pitches were working really well today.”

Moran fouled off the first three pitches before the Pirates rookie lined a clean single well over the head of second baseman Kolten Wong into right field.

“I was just trying to get a pitch somewhere near the middle of the plate,” Moran said. “And luckily, I got one I could do something with. Obviously, it was cool with the crowd standing on their feet.”

The hit signaled the end for Wacha, and the 26-year-old was pulled after 111 pitches — 119 is his career high. The crowd of 44,432 at Busch Stadium gave Wacha a standing ovation, and he received hugs from his teammates in the dugout.

St. Louis manager Mike Matheny had Wacha remain on the mound a little longer than usual so the fans could continue their cheers.

“I wanted to make sure he stood there and enjoyed it,” Matheny said. “The crowd didn’t disappoint. These are things you’ll never forget.”

Reliever Jordan Hicks gave up one hit while getting the last three outs.

Marcell Ozuna hit a grand slam on the eighth pitch of the game from Nick Kingham (2-2). In April, Kingham took a perfect game into the seventh inning against St. Louis in his big league debut before it was broken up.

The Cardinals have won three of four. Pittsburgh has lost three of four.

Wacha has allowed two runs or less in his last nine starts. He was the MVP of the 2013 NL Championship Series and an All-Star in 2015 before he was slowed by injuries. He made only had 24 starts in 20016 because of a shoulder inflammation.

There already have been three no-nos this year. Oakland’s Sean Manaea began baseball’s no-hit parade with a gem against Boston on April 21, four Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers combined to blank San Diego on May 4, and Seattle’s James Paxton threw one against Toronto on May 8.

Matt Carpenter drew a leadoff walk in the first, Tommy Pham singled and Jose Martinez reached on an error by shortstop Sean Rodriguez. Ozuna then hit his fourth career-grand slam.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Pirates: INF Jung Ho Kang hit a grand slam for Class A Bradenton on Saturday. Kang is on major league baseball’s restricted list.

Cardinals: C Yadier Molina is expected to return to the lineup on Tuesday. He suffered a pelvic injury with traumatic hematoma on May 5. Molina went 0-for-1 with a sacrificed fly in a rehab appearance for Class AA Springfield on Saturday.

UP NEXT

Pirates: RHP Joe Musgrove (2-0, 0.64) will face the Dodgers on Tuesday in Pittsburgh.

Cardinals: Carlos Martinez (3-2, 1.62) will start the first of a three-game series at home against Miami RHP Jose Urena (0-7. 4.41) on Tuesday. Martinez is coming off the 10-day disabled list.

— Associated Press —