ST. LOUIS -- Stephen Piscotty hit a three-run home run and Randal Grichuk also went deep to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh 5-1 on Thursday to avoid a four-game sweep and end the Pirates season-best seven-game winning streak.Adam Wainwright (8-5) worked seven effective innings for St. Louis, which reclaimed second place in the NL Central by a half-game over Pittsburgh to end a rough 4-5 homestand. All-Star Matt Carpenter (oblique) joined Brandon Moss (ankle) and Brayan Pena (knee) on the 15-day disabled list earlier in the day.Piscottys 11th homer off Arquimedes Caminero was initially ruled off the top of the center-field wall but the call was overturned after review.Tyler Glasnow (0-1) was charged with four runs in 5 1/3 innings in his debut. The 22-year-old right-hander was the 11th starter used by the Pirates and, like Steven Brault earlier in the series, got his first career hit.Jordy Mercer doubled and had an RBI for the Pirates, who had come from behind to win the previous six games. They havent swept a four-game series in St. Louis since 1997 and the Cardinals havent been swept in four games at home by anyone since Colorado in 2009.Aledmys Diaz, named an All-Star earlier in the day to replace Carpenter, tripled off the top of the left-field fence and scored on a wild pitch to tie it in the fourth. Grichuks first homer since June 12 gave the Cardinals the lead for good in the fifth.Wainwright matched his season best with nine strikeouts and got his 129th career win, passing Harry Brecheen for seventh on the franchise list. 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Thakkar was dismissed for 47 shortly after, and a promoted Jalaj Saxena fell for 5, but Kerala chased down the target comfortably after that. Left-arm spinner Gurinder Singh took all three wickets. Azharuddeen, who had also top-scored for Kerala with 40 in the first innings, was named Player of the Match.Hyderabad moved to the top of the group with a 286-run win over Jammu & Kashmir in Vadodara.J&K began the day on 42 for 4, after Tanmay Agarwals second century of the match - an unbeaten 103 to go with 119 in the first innings - had helped Hyderabad set them a target of 404. Their overnight pair of nightwatchman Ram Dayal (33) and Aditya Partap (26) added a further 51 in the morning, before Dayal was dismissed by CV Milind (4-39). This started a J&K collapse that saw them fall from 93 for 4 to 101 for 9, before being bowled out for 117.The win was Hyderabads third in a row and pushed them above Andhra into first place.Chattisgarh lost their last four wickets for 15 runs as Services pipped them by 18 runs in Mumbai, on a day that saw them shutting shop in the final session in hopes of collectingg first-innings lead points.ddddddddddddOpeners Sahil Gupta (87) and Abhimanyu Chauhan (52) put up an 80-run partnership before the former was dismissed by Diwesh Pathania. From the other end, left-arm spinner Vikas Yadavs three wickets derailed Chattisgarhs middle order. At tea Chattisgarh had four wickets in hand, needing 75 runs more to win, but Pathania returned to tear through the tail to take Services home to a memorable win, finishing with figures of 4 for 67. The loss meant Chattisgarh continued to languish at the bottom of the table while Services clinched their first win of the season.Prashant Chopra scored a career-best 237 off 241 deliveries as Haryana and Himachal Pradesh played out a draw in Valsad.Chopra started the day on 89 with Robin Bist and the duo added 126 runs for the second wicket. After Bist was out on 42, Chopra added another 110 runs with Prateek Dogra, but was dismissed on 237 (25x4, 7x6). Rahul Tewatia struck with three wickets to make HP declare at 432 for 6 after Dogra was out for 62.Chasing 264 in under 38 overs, Haryana opener Nitin Saini was bowled in the innings second delivery. However his partner, Shubham Rohilla completed a 108-ball 100 to remain not out with Chaitanya Bishnoi (41) as their 81-run partnership secured a draw with Haryana finishing on 162 for 3. ' ' '