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ST. LOUIS -- Tony Womack and Reggie Sanders hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning and Sanders added another for his second two-homer game of the season, helping the St. Louis Cardinals halt an early slump at home with a 13-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Friday night.

Womack added a double and single, and Marlon Anderson also homered and had three hits for St. Louis, which opened the season 1-6 at Busch Stadium for the first time since 1973. The Cardinals had a day off Thursday after getting swept in three games and outscored 26-9 by the Astros.

Matt Morris (2-1) worked around homers to Todd Helton, Vinny Castilla and Kit Pellow, allowing four runs on five hits in seven innings. He struck out four and walked three and added an RBI single in the sixth, his third of the year.

The Cardinals battered Denny Stark for four homers and 11 runs -- eight earned -- in 2 1-3 innings. IN his two starts, Stark (0-2) has allowed six homers and 15 earned runs for a 16.20 ERA.

Stark lost consecutive starts for only the second time of his career as the Rockies fell to 2-5 on the road. They also committed their first two errors of the season after entering the game as the only perfect-fielding team in the majors, on Starks' throwing error and left fielder Matt Holliday's dropped fly ball near the wall in the second.

Womack and Sanders opened the bottom of a four-run first with back-to-back homers, and Sanders hit a three-run shot, his fourth, in the third. Sanders also hit two homers April 9 at Arizona, and this was the 24th multihomer game of his career.

Sanders finished 3-for-5 with a single in the sixth, and did it batting second for the first time this season, in order to inject some pop at the top of the lineup.

Womack doubled and scored in the second, walked, stole a base and scored in the third, singled in the fifth and hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth off Turk Wendell.

Anderson was 3-for-4, homering to start the third and adding a pair of singles.