CINCINNATI (AP) -- Matt Adams delivered his first home run of the season and the St. Louis Cardinals snapped the Cincinnati Reds' season-opening winning streak at four with a 4-1 win on Saturday.
Kolten Wong drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, Jhonny Peralta and Yadier Molina added ninth-inning run-scoring singles and Michael Wacha pitched into the seventh inning to get the win in his first appearance of the season.
Wacha (1-0) shook off Todd Frazier's first-inning home run to go 6 1-3 innings, allowing five hits and one run with a walk and two strikeouts. He stranded a runner in scoring position in each of his last four full innings.
The Reds left five runners in scoring position.
Trevor Rosenthal, the Cardinals' fifth relief pitcher, got the last five outs for his second save.
Adams led off the fourth inning by lofting a one-strike pitch 355 feet down the right field line and onto the netting above the visitors' bullpen to give St. Louis a 2-1 lead.
That was the only earned run allowed by Reds starter Johnny Cueto in 14 innings this season -- a 0.64 ERA. Cueto (0-1), who turned in seven shutout innings without a decision in Cincinnati's 5-2 win over Pittsburgh in Monday's opener, again went seven, giving up four hits and two runs with four strikeouts. He also hit a batter.
Frazier, before a sellout crowd of 41,525 on his bobblehead day, gave Cincinnati a 1-0 lead with his third homer, a 342-foot drive into the seats down the left field line with two outs in the first inning.
The Cardinals tied it by loading the bases with one out on Frazier's error of Peralta's sharp one-hopper -- Cincinnati's first error of the season -- a hit batsman and Molina's single, setting up Wong's tying sacrifice fly.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Cardinals: Jon Jay returned to the starting lineup after getting Friday off so that Randal Grichuk could get some playing time. Grichuk responded with a two-run homer.
Reds: The Reds have used the same starting lineup for their first five games after being able to use last year's projected starting eight just 12 times all season. The last time the Reds used the same lineup for a season's first five games was 1989, according to Elias Sports as reported by the team.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: After 11 career relief appearances against the Reds, Carlos Martinez makes his first start against Cincinnati and his first start of the season Sunday. The right-hander pitched a scoreless relief inning a week ago against the Cubs in Chicago.
Reds: Cuba native Raisel Iglesias is set to make his major league debut with a start on Sunday.
