St. Louis needed six pitchers to throw nine innings, but it worked as the Cardinals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 Friday night at Chase Field.

St. Louis starter Jaime Garcia (6-3) allowed only one run in five innings, but issued five walks and threw 102 pitches so he could only go long enough to earn the win.

Kyle McLellan, Dennis Reyes, Jason Motte, Trever Miller and Ryan Franklin then patched together the last four innings to preserve the victory.

St. Louis opened the scoring in the second when Skip Schumaker doubled to score Matt Holliday, then Yadier Molina singled in Schumaker.

Arizona starter Rodrigo Lopez then retired 16 consecutive batters until he stumbled in the seventh. Schumaker and Molina both singled with two outs and then Brendan Ryan homered to extend the lead to 5-1.

Lopez (2-5) finished the inning and in all gave up five runs on six hits with four strikeouts.

Arizona had made the score 2-1 in the fifth on an Adam LaRoche double and scored their second run in the seventh on a RBI single, also by LaRoche.

Ryan Franklin pitched 1 2/3 innings to earn his 11th save of the season.