Prevailing for the 10th time in their last 11 games at Busch Stadium over a five-year span, the Braves won for the 35th time in their past 50 games this season by routing the Cardinals 11-4 Friday night before a sellout crowd of 46,027.
The defeat marked the first time in nine collective starts that the Cardinals hadn’t won when newcomers Jose Quintana and Jordan Montgomery had started.
Quintana was victimized by a throwing error from second baseman Nolan Gorman, costing him two runs in the fourth inning, and his own leadoff walk led to a three-run sixth, punctuated by a bases-clearing double from William Contreras, who jumped reliever Andre Pallante.