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Martinez crazy wild, Yanks top Cards 3-2 for 6th win in row

NEW YORK -- Cardinals ace Carlos Martinez put on a historically uneven performance, walking a career-high eight while striking out 11 and handing CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees a 3-2 win Saturday.

The Yankees won their sixth straight despite tying a team record by fanning 17 times. They got plenty of help from sloppy St. Louis, which at 3-8 is off to its worst start in 20 years and has the poorest record in the NL.

Martinez's misadventures on the mound -- he also airmailed a tapper to the backstop and threw a wild pitch -- stood in sharp contrast to Sabathia (2-0), who took a shutout into the eighth.