ST. LOUIS — Bryce Eldridge hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs, lifting the San Franciso Giants to a 10-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Eldridge is hitting .343 (36 for 105) with 28 RBI in his last 28 games.<\/p>\n
Christian Kross and rookie Turner Hill each added two hits and drove in two runs, helping the Giants snap a four-game losing streak. Hill hit his first career home run in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Alex Burleson hit a two-out homer, his 23rd of the season, in the first inning. He has driven in league-leading 111 runs.<\/p>\n
Blade Tidwell (1-2) allowed two runs on three hits over 6 2\/3 innings. Since his Aug. 4 recall, the Giants are 2-6 in his eight starts, with both wins coming against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n
Andre Pallante (12-7) lasted five innings, allowing eight hits and eight runs, six earned. He had allowed just one run or less in four of his last five starts.<\/p>\n
The Giants got off to a fast start. Eldridge, who didn\u2019t play on Monday, hit the longest home run this season at Busch Stadium when he smacked a 2-1 slider 461 feet deep into the right field bleachers. That snapped a 48-inning homerless streak by Pallante. Turner Hill\u2019s single scored Jonah Cox, who had reached first on a catcher\u2019s interference call and then stole second, giving the Giants a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
San Francisco stretched its lead to 7-1 with four runs in the third.<\/p>\n
A two-out double by Osleivis Basabe scored Eldridge in the fourth, extending the lead to 8-2. <\/p>\n
The teams each scored in the eighth. Eldridge doubled home a run and Nolan Gorman drove in a run for St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Giants RHP Anthony Munoz (3-1, 5.24 ERA) starts Wednesday in the series finale opposite Cardinals LHP Matthew Liberatore (5-14, 5.53).<\/p>\n
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