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PITTSBURGH -- Adam Wainwright is still in search of his best stuff. His bat made sure his best wasnt necessary.The St. Louis ace drove in three runs and survived five occasionally bumpy innings to pick up his first victory since mid-July as the Cardinals drummed the staggering Pittsburgh Pirates 12-6 on Monday.Wainwright hit an RBI-double off Chad Kuhl (3-3) in the second and added a two-run single in the fourth as the Cardinals held on to the second wild card spot in the National League by sending the Pirates to their seventh straight loss.We needed that win, Wainwright said. We need every win that we can get coming down the stretch. Any part that I can play in that is a treat for me, a privilege.Wainwright (10-8) allowed four runs and struck out five as his ERA rose to 4.61 while picking up his first victory since July 16. He hardly needed to be sharp as the Cardinals battered Pittsburghs beleaguered pitching staff. Jedd Gyorko and Matt Adams homered for St. Louis to extend the teams streak of games with at least one home run to a club-record 24.Andrew McCutchen and Adam Frazier hit home runs for the Pirates, who have been outscored 47-22 during their current slide. A week ago Pittsburgh was well within striking distance of the Cardinals for a playoff spot but have fallen 4 1/2 games behind St. Louis and dropped below .500 (67-68) for the first time since July 2.Were trying to figure ourselves out and get out of this and get back to playing baseball the way we want to play, shortstop Jordy Mercer said. We just have to keep going.St. Louis pounded out 14 hits -- eight for extra bases -- against five pitchers and wasted little time getting to Kuhl, who has been steady if not spectacular since joining the rotation full-time a month ago.Wainwrights double to the wall in center field put the Cardinals in front and Stephen Piscottys two-run double later in the inning gave Wainwright an early cushion, one he flirted with giving away. Pittsburgh touched him for two runs in the bottom of the inning but Wainwright avoided major damage.I hate giving up runs after we score, Wainwright said. Thats driving me crazy. But what we did do well there is we held them to two. We could have let that inning get away from us, and we didnt.Jeff Locke came on relief of Kuhl in the third and the Cardinals quickly went to work. Kolten Wongs RBI single against him made it 4-2 and Gyorko opened the fourth with a long home run down the left-field line for his 26th of the year.Wainwrights bloop to left later in the inning pushed St. Louis lead to six runs and allowed Wainwright to leave after five innings in which he needed 93 pitches to get 15 outs.He was at 93 pitches, and were in September, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. The first two (innings) were stressful. To me, weve got a lead that we think our bullpen can hold. I guess your greatest argument (for leaving him in) is you want to see him hit again.TRAINERS ROOMCardinals: Piscotty left in the fifth inning after being hit in the wrist with a pitch though Matheny said X-rays were negative. ... RHP Mike Leake will return after a bout with the shingles when he starts on Wednesday. ... C Brayan Pena is finally healthy after battling injuries much of the season but the team will not use him to catch a full game.Pirates: C Francisco Cervelli was taken out of the game after the fourth inning with discomfort in his left thumb. ... C Elias Diaz is being evaluated for cellulitis in his left leg and will be re-evaluated on Thursday.UP NEXTCardinals: Rookie Luke Weaver makes his fourth major league start on Tuesday. Weaver is 1-2 with a 3.86 ERA and gave up three runs over six innings in his last start against Milwaukee.Pirates: Veteran Ryan Vogelsong (3-4, 3.56 ERA) will make his ninth start of the season and seventh since returning from the DL on Aug. 4 after missing more than two months while recovering from facial fractures sustained when he was hit by a pitch on May 23. Vogelsong is 3-7 with a 5.75 ERA in 22 appearances against the Cardinals.Vans Old Skool Clearance . 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Vans Shoes Clearance . -- Its been a long road back for Sean Bergenheim.Kimi Raikkonen says Ferrari is lacking the raw performance to challenge Red Bull after he qualified fifth for the British Grand Prix.Raikkonen and teammate Sebastian Vettel had to settle for the third row on Saturday, though the latter is set to drop to 11th on the grid after being hit with a gearbox change penalty. Ferrari had hoped to take the fight to Mercedes this weekend but Raikkonen admits the team is struggling in the cold and windy conditions at Silverstone.Its always difficult to know, before the weekend, whats going to happen, Raikkonen said after qualifying. Obviously its not ideal to be where we are, but it was kind of expected. It was a bit tricky in the end but thats how it turned out to be.We dont have enough speed, theres much we can do to be at the front in these conditions, in windy conditions, as they are very tricky conditions for us. This is where we are right now, in this circuit and in these conditions. Hopefully tomorrow is a bit easier and we go forward from there.Raikkonen thinks Ferrari has reached a dead end with the set-up route it has followed over the weekend so farr.ddddddddddddI think in the end was not too bad. I think in qualifying my car has been the best it has been all weekend, but obviously it was still not easy, but we are a bit stuck with certain things. With the set-up we have we cannot change it.We can change a lot of things but it wont help because of certain issues that make us struggle with the handing. We could change things but it wouldnt make a different. It was not easy but this is it. Is it the circuit, the conditions? Its more the conditions the make us struggle a bit.Raikkonens contract was renewed to 2017 on Friday but he brushed off the importance of out-qualifying Vettel.It means nothing. You guys always have a lot of interest at looking at the numbers, but he had issues and if you make one mistake here theres a big time difference, so it means nothing. For me being ahead of Seb gives me nothing; if it was first and second then yes, its Ok, but when we are fifth and sixth then it gives me zero happiness. ' ' '