Pedro Pages goes deep, Cardinals defeat Cubs

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Rookie Pedro Pages belted a two-run homer and Miles Mikolas tossed 6 1/3 strong innings, lifting the visiting St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon.

Paul Goldschmidt had two of the nine hits for the Cardinals, who won the rubber match of this three-game series and improved to 4-1 in the season series.

Michael Busch had an RBI single in