Cards power by Reds

ST. LOUIS -- For the second straight game, Albert Pujols upstaged Ken Griffey's quest for 500 homers.

Pujols' go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning led the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night, their sixth straight win. Pujols hit the game-winning homer leading off the 10th Friday.

"You can't miss a mistake, and that's what happened," Pujols said. "He made a mistake and I put a good swing on it."

Griffey remained stuck on 499 homers for the fifth straight game, although he contributed to the offense with two singles, an RBI and a walk.

Woody Williams threw seven innings to get the win, and Jim Edmonds was 3-for-4 with a homer for the Cardinals, who have won 15-of-19. Edmonds is 8-for-12 with two homers for his career against Jose Acevedo (3-6).

Jason La Rue homered in the sixth to give the Reds a 2-0 lead. Edmonds countered with his 15th homer leading off the bottom of the sixth.

Tony Womack and Ray Lankford hit consecutive one-out singles in the seventh off Acevedo, and Pujols lined his 19th homer -- one more than Griffey -- over the left-field wall on the first pitch.

Williams (5-6) has won four of his last five starts and is 3-0 against the Reds the last two seasons. He allowed two runs on four hits in seven innings. He also worked around three walks, two wild pitches and a hit batter.

"That's the best I've ever seen him throw," Adam Dunn said after going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts. "He had everything."

Jason Isringhausen recorded the last four outs for his 15th save in 18 chances. In his first at-bat of the season he gave himself a nice cushion with a two-run, bases-loaded single off Phil Norton in the Cardinals' five-run eighth.

Scott Rolen added a bases-loaded triple on a drive to the left-field warning track that Dunn apparently lost in the lights. Rolen leads the majors with 70 RBIs.