Ben Rice drove in seven runs and scored twice as the visiting New York Yankees outslugged the St. Louis Cardinals 12-8 on Saturday night.

Rice recorded a three-run homer, a three-run double and an RBI single as the Yankees won for the fourth time in five games.

Aaron Judge had a homer, a double and two RBIs for New York. Trent Grisham went 4-for-5 with four runs, and Jose Caballero was 2-for-4 with two stolen bases and three runs.

Yankees starter Max Fried (13-5) allowed seven runs on eight hits in five innings. David Bednar got the final out for his 20th save of the year.

Masyn Winn hit a three-run home run, Nolan Gorman had a two-run homer, and Pedro Pages belted a solo shot for the Cardinals, who lost their fourth straight.

Cardinals starter Sonny Gray (11-6) allowed six runs on nine hits in five innings.

St. Louis outfielder Victor Scott II left the game with a left ankle sprain he suffered while attempting a leaping catch on Judge’s homer.

The Yankees took 2-0 first-inning lead as Judge ripped an RBI double, followed shortly thereafter by a Jasson Dominguez run-scoring single.

The Cardinals cut the lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the inning on Alec Burleson’s triple and Ivan Herrera’s RBI single. St. Louis, though, surged ahead 5-2 in the second inning on Scott’s RBI single and Winn’s three-run blast.

Judge’s third-inning homer cut the deficit to 5-3. Then the Yankees moved ahead 6-5 in the fourth on Caballero’s bunt single, Grisham’s single and Rice’s three-run homer.

Austin Wells, Caballero and Grisham loaded the bases with singles in the sixth inning, setting the table for Rice’s bases-clearing double to put New York up 9-5.

The Cardinals trimmed their deficit to 9-7 in the bottom of the inning on Jordan Walker’s double and Gorman’s homer.

New York pushed its lead to 12-7 in the seventh inning on Ryan McMahon’s homer, which was followed by Rice’s RBI singleand Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s sacrifice fly.

Pages’ homer in the ninth inning made it 12-8.

–Field Level Media