WASHINGTON — Dylan Carlson homered twice, Willson Contreras went 3-for-4 with two doubles to interrupt out of a stoop, and the St. Louis Cardinals received their fourth straight, 9-3 over the skidding Washington Nationals on Tuesday evening.

Carlson’s first homer was a two-run shot that opened the scoring within the second inning and traveled 445 ft, touchdown midway up the batter’s eye berm behind the middle subject wall. He went deep once more main off the seventh. It was Carlson’s third profession multi-homer recreation and first of the season.

“Definitely felt good to go to the big part of the yard, no doubt,” Carlson mentioned. “I wouldn’t mind it some more times hopefully to come. Ultimately, just trying to keep it simple. I wasn’t going up there trying to hit homers by any means.”

Paul DeJong added a two-run shot within the ninth, his eleventh homer this 12 months, because the Cardinals completed with 14 hits.

Jordan Montgomery (4-7) retired his first seven batters and matched a season excessive by pitching seven innings, permitting one run on 4 hits with six strikeouts. After shedding seven straight selections, Montgomery has received two in a row.

“Changeup was good there for the first couple of innings and then kind of settled in with my fastball down and mixed in some four-seamers up,” Montgomery mentioned. “Just getting quick outs with my sinker and my changeup. That team is really aggressive. They were swinging, so kind of just trying to get them on the ground or get them out early.”

MacKenzie Gore (3-6) gave up 5 runs on 9 hits in six innings for the Nationals, who've misplaced 5 straight and 13 of 15. Washington has misplaced 9 of Gore’s final 10 begins.

“It’s kind of the way it has been lately,” Gore mentioned. “I made some pitches in the middle of the plate and they are doing damage right now. The homers killed me again. They hit some doubles too on some pitches that were over the plate. I just got to do a better job of keeping the ball in the ballpark. I stunk today. We are struggling right now and we are just frustrated.”

Contreras, who signed an $87.5 million contract within the offseason to interchange longtime Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, entered in a 15-for-104 stoop (.144). He began at designated hitter Tuesday and doubled within the fourth and fifth, singled within the seventh and was hit by a pitch within the ninth, ending with two RBIs.

“It’s just a matter of time for this guy,” Cardinals supervisor Oliver Marmol mentioned. “He’s comfortable. He’s taking good at-bats. We talked about when he’s driving the ball to right side of the field its a good thing. We are going to need him. Today was a really good day.”

The Cardinals, final within the NL Central, have scored 30 runs throughout their four-game win streak. Now they've a shot at their first sequence sweep since May 12-14 at Boston.

“Sometimes you just have to have confidence before things start to go your way,” Marmol mentioned. “This group has been trying that for a while now and they haven’t given in at all. So to be able to see them get rewarded is good.”

St. Louis rookie Jordan Walker prolonged his hitting streak to a career-best 13 video games with a second-inning single. Brendan Donovan went 3-for-5 for the Cardinals, and Paul Goldschmidt singled twice, scored twice and drove in a run.

The Nationals bought inside 2-1 within the fourth when Lane Thomas led off with a triple and scored on Stone Garrett’s two-out double. Montgomery struck out Dominic Smith to finish the risk.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: RHP Jordan Hicks was unavailable Tuesday evening after closing three straight video games.

Nationals: 3B Carter Kieboom was positioned on the injured record by Triple-A Rochester. He had an MRI Tuesday after tweaking his left indirect.

UP NEXT

RHP Miles Mikolas (4-4, 4.36 ERA) begins for St. Louis on Wednesday because it seeks a three-game sweep forward of its journey to London to face the Chicago Cubs in a two-game weekend sequence. Trevor Williams (3-4, 4.50) takes the mound for Washington.

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