Yadier Molina homered twice and Adam Wainwright threw seven shutout innings to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
Matt Carpenter also homered for St. Louis, which won for the eighth time in nine games. Chicago has lost three of four.
Molina recorded the third multi-homer game of his career. His last came on Aug. 21, 2011 at Wrigley Field. He drilled a two-run homer off Jake Arrieta (4-3) in the second inning and added a solo blast in the eighth.
Wainwright (3-3) allowed four hits in a 102-pitch stint. He struck out three and walked four. Trevor Rosenthal and Kevin Siegrist each pitched a perfect inning to complete the four-hitter.
Carpenter's two-run drive came in the third. He was 1-for-31 before the round-tripper against Arrieta, his friend and college teammate at TCU.
Wainwright's seven-inning effort was his longest of the season.
Randal Grichuk added three hits for St. Louis, which won two out of three from the world champions.
Chicago Baseball
Chicago had runners on in six of the first seven innings.
