Jac Caglianone picked up his first career hit and Noah Cameron had yet another dominant outing, but it wasn’t enough to stop the St. Louis Cardinals as the Kansas City Royals fell 6-5 in ten innings.

The Royals jumped out to an early lead thanks to a lead-off homer from Jonathan India. KC would add to their lead in the fourth, when Caglianone drilled an RBI double for his first career hit to make it 2-0. Vinnie Pasquantino drove home the third Kansas City run with an RBI single in the fifth.

Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas went six innings, allowing three runs on eight hits and a walk. Cameron pitched another gem for the Royals, going six scoreless innings with three punch outs.

The Cardinals finally got on the board in the seventh inning, attacking the Royals bullpen with an RBI hit from Nolan Arenado and a sac-fly from Yohel Pozo to cut the lead to one. St. Louis took its first lead in the game the following inning after Ivan Herrera drilled a two-run home run over the wall in left-center field.

The Royals tied the game in the ninth, when India hit a sac-fly off Ryan Helsley to bring home Nick Loftin.

In the tenth inning, the Royals would take a brief lead after a go-ahead RBI single from Pasquantino, but the Cardinals answered right back in the bottom half of the inning with an RBI groundout from Masyn Winn. Willson Contreras was the hero after hitting a walk-off RBI single a few batters later to win it 6-5 for the Cardinals.

The Royals fall to 32-30, while St. Louis improves to 34-27. Both teams will face each other for the second game of the doubleheader beginning at 6:45 p.m. Pregame coverage begins at 6 on KMMO FM 102.9.