MONDAY’S RESULTS Cardinals 12, Nationals 5:

Paul DeJong hit two of the Cardinals’ five homers, including a grand slam, Tommy Edman (La Jolla Country Day) and Paul Goldschmidt went deep back-to-back and St. Louis offered Jack Flaherty his usual strong run support in a victory at Washington.

A day after St. Louis was shut out for the second time in four games, DeJong got the offense going by clanging a solo shot off the left-field foul pole in the second inning for the first run allowed by Joe Ross (1-1) in three games this season after he sat out 2020 because of COVID-19 concerns.

DeJong later ended the right-hander’s evening with another drive to left, this one off a high fastball after Dylan Carlson was walked intentionally to load the bases, making it 10-2 in the fifth. Edman, who hit a 3-0 pitch, and Goldschmidt homered in the third off Ross, whose season ERA went from 0.00 to 5.87 after he gave up 10 runs in 41⁄3 innings. Justin Williams added a shot off Ross’ replacement, Kyle Finnegan.

Giants 2, Phillies 0: Brandon Belt hit a two-run homer, Kevin Gausman niftily pitched out of trouble in six innings and visiting San Francisco beat Philadelphia.

San Francisco’s Gabe Kapler became the first manager in major league baseball history to start his career 200-200. Kapler, who was 161-163 as Philadelphia’s manager in 2018-19, was booed when he brought out the lineup card.

Gausman (1-0) allowed six hits, walked four and struck out five. He lowered his ERA to 2.45.

Matt Wisler tossed a perfect seventh, Camilo Doval worked the eighth and Wandy Peralta finished off the seven-hitter for his second save.