MIAMI (AP) -- Jason Heyward homered for the third consecutive game, Kolten Wong added a two-run shot and the St. Louis Cardinals topped the Miami Marlins 6-1 on Wednesday night.Heyward hit a three-run homer, his ninth of the season, in the seventh to blow the game open. The Cardinals had just one hit in the first six innings against Miami starter Mat Latos (2-5), that hit being Wong's ninth home run in the third.Jaime Garcia (3-3) allowed one run in seven innings for the Cardinals, lowering his ERA to 1.69. Garcia singled and eventually scored in the eighth, but grimaced and began to limp shortly before crossing the plate. 
He came out of the game, but afterward Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said it was merely because of a cramp and didn't believe there was reason for concern.Giancarlo Stanton had three hits, including hit his ML-leading 27th home run for the Marlins.Latos threw seven innings, giving up three hits and two walks - with all five of those runners scoring, and all earnedSt. Louis' only hit in the first six innings came in the third, Wong's homer off the facade on the upper deck in right. That gave the Cardinals a 2-1 lead, and it stayed that way into the seventh.Jhonny Peralta led off with a single and Mark Reynolds then took a four-pitch walk. Two pitches later, Latos left a fastball up and Heyward sent it over the wall in right for a 5-1 lead.Stanton gave the Marlins a 1-0 lead in the second, hitting his first first-pitch home run of the year in his 301st plate appearance. Garcia's 91 mph offering left in a hurry, a line drive that just kept going until it nestled in the bushes behind the center field wall that sits 418 feet away from home plate.But that would be one of the lone hurrahs for the Marlins.
He came out of the game, but afterward Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said it was merely because of a cramp and didn't believe there was reason for concern.Giancarlo Stanton had three hits, including hit his ML-leading 27th home run for the Marlins.Latos threw seven innings, giving up three hits and two walks - with all five of those runners scoring, and all earnedSt. Louis' only hit in the first six innings came in the third, Wong's homer off the facade on the upper deck in right. That gave the Cardinals a 2-1 lead, and it stayed that way into the seventh.Jhonny Peralta led off with a single and Mark Reynolds then took a four-pitch walk. Two pitches later, Latos left a fastball up and Heyward sent it over the wall in right for a 5-1 lead.Stanton gave the Marlins a 1-0 lead in the second, hitting his first first-pitch home run of the year in his 301st plate appearance. Garcia's 91 mph offering left in a hurry, a line drive that just kept going until it nestled in the bushes behind the center field wall that sits 418 feet away from home plate.But that would be one of the lone hurrahs for the Marlins.
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