ST. LOUIS, June 18 (UPI) -- Matt Holliday, facing his former team for the first time, homered and drove in three runs Friday in pacing the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-4 win over Oakland.
Holliday was traded by Oakland to St. Louis last July and in his first at bat Friday he delivered a two-run homer.
The Athletics rallied to take a 4-2 lead in the second, but both Holliday and Albert Pujols had RBI singles in the fifth to tie it.
Skip Schumaker's ground-rule double in the seventh drove in the go-ahead run and Schumaker then scored on a single by Ryan Ludwick.
Chris Carpenter (8-1) rebounded from Oakland's four-run second to get the win, allowing 10 hits with five strikeouts over seven innings. Ryan Franklin earned his 13th save with a perfect ninth.
Reliever Brad Ziegler (2-4) gave up the two runs in the seventh to take the loss.
