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Record: 10-4, 1st, 2 GA Kansas City After struggling to hit home runs for much of the season, St. Louis blasted four to pound its way to a 10-4 win over Kansas City in the second game of a doubleheader at Kansas City Municipal Stadium. The River Walkers didn't need the long ball to grab a 3-0 lead in the top of the second. Rookie Edmond Americaan drove in a run with a single, his first major-league hit, and Bryon Buxton plated two with a triple off Pit Masters starting pitcher Jameson Taillon. J.T. Realmuto struck the first round tripper, leading off the fourth with a 391-foot shot off Taillon. Andrew Beintendi scorched Taiilon for another solo shot in the fifth, putting St. Louis ahead 5-1. Three innings after collecting his first major league hit and RBI, Americaan notched his first homer with a solo shot off reliever Juan Minaya. Then after Kansas City had pulled to within 6-3 following a long shot of its own -- Joey Gallo with a two-run homer off St. Louis starter Alex Faedo -- rookie Tyler Esplin answered in a big way in the seventh blasting a grand slam off David Berg. The homer was Esplin's team-leading fifth of the season. Faedo worked six innings for the Walkers, allowing the three runs on a five hits. He struck out seven and walked one. Bobby Poyner kept the Masters scoreless in the seventh and eighth. Phil Maton did allow a lead-off homer to Jordan Alvarez in the ninth. But Brad Hand closed it out without any issue.