Pitcher Greg Maddux delivers, striking out six batters.

ST. LOUIS – Greg Maddux pitched seven strong innings, stole a base and scored twice, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-3 Monday.

Sammy Sosa, Todd Walker and Derrek Lee homered for the Cubs, who split the four-game series despite scoring a total of only 14 runs.

Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer for the Cardinals and also flied out twice to the warning track. Jim Edmonds hit a solo shot in the eighth off Cubs reliever Francis Beltran.

Maddux (2-2) outpitched former Braves teammate Jason Marquis for his 291st career victory. He allowed two runs and seven hits, walking none and striking out six.

Maddux entered the game with an uncharacteristically high 5.65 ERA. His third straight solid outing left him with a 5.05 ERA.

Walker drove in three runs. He hit an RBI single in the third after Maddux reached on a forceout and stole the sixth base of his career.

Walker’s two-run homer broke a 1-all tie in the sixth. Maddux reached on an infield single and Walker hit his third homer.

Lee hit a two-run shot in the eighth. Sosa connected for a two-run drive in the ninth, his sixth homer of the season and 545th of his career.

The Cubs won for only the seventh time in their last 34 games at Busch Stadium since 2000.

Marquis (1-2), who considers Maddux a mentor, matched the four-time Cy Young winner at the plate with a bunt single and his first career steal.

Rangers 9, Devil Rays 0

ARLINGTON, Texas – Kenny Rogers pitched a four-hitter and Texas’ offense supported him with an eight-run first inning in a 9-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Monday night, the Rangers’ fifth straight win. Alfonso Soriano hit a two-run homer, and David Dellucci and Michael Young each had three-run shots as the AL West leaders won their eighth in a row at home.

Rogers (4-1) struck out four, walked one and helped protect his eighth career shutout when he made a lunging grab of a line drive by Rocco Baldelli with runners at first and second to end the third inning. It was the 34th complete game of Rogers’ career.

Carl Crawford led off the game with a single, Rey Sanchez and Jose Cruz Jr. singled in the third, and Cruz had a leadoff double in the ninth for the Devil Rays’ hits. Crawford was the only runner to reach third base.

The Devil Rays, the only team in the majors without consecutive victories this season, have lost nine of 11. Tampa Bay, coming off an 8-2 win over Oakland on Sunday, has gone 25 games without back-to-back victories. That’s the longest such streak since Baltimore failed to win two straight over the first 25 games in 1999.

Texas, which has won nine of 10, sent 11 to the plate in the first against Paul Abbott (2-3).

Royals 3, Blue Jays 2

TORONTO – Aaron Guiel homered in the 10th inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 Monday night after nearly wasting a stellar outing by Jimmy Gobble.

The left-hander retired his first 16 batters and came within one out of a shutout for the Royals, who snapped a four-game losing streak and improved to 2-10 on the road.

Gobble gave up a two-out double to Carlos Delgado in the ninth and an RBI single to Josh Phelps, cutting it to 2-1.

Mike MacDougal then came in and blew the lead.

He gave up a single to Eric Hinske and walked pinch-hitter Frank Catalanotto, loading the bases. MacDougal then walked Orlando Hudson, tying it at 2.

But Nate Field (1-0) got out of the inning, and Guiel hit a 3-2 pitch from Terry Adams (2-1) over the right-center fence with one out in the 10th.

Field stayed on and got the first out in the bottom half.

White Sox 5, Orioles 4

BALTIMORE – Scott Schoeneweis pitched seven innings of two-hit ball, and the surging Chicago White Sox scored three runs in the seventh inning of a 5-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night.

Joe Crede homered for the White Sox, who have won five of six. Crede’s shot tied it at 1 in the sixth, and Chicago went up 4-1 an inning later against Mike DeJean (0-3).

Melvin Mora drove in two runs with a two-out single in the ninth off Billy Koch, who loaded the bases on three walks. Miguel Tejada, who also drove in two runs, then grounded sharply to short but Juan Uribe turned it into a game-ending fielder’s choice that gave Koch his fourth save in five tries.

The Orioles finished with six hits. Schoeneweis (3-1) allowed one run, struck out three and walked three in winning his third straight decision. He came in 0-2 with a 9.55 ERA in nine career appearances at Camden Yards.

Uribe led off the seventh with a single and took third on a one-out single by Frank Thomas. Carlos Lee then hit a slow roller to short, and Tejada threw the ball wide of second in an effort to begin a double play, allowing Uribe to score on the error.

After an intentional walk and a strikeout, Aaron Rowand singled in a run, and Sandy Alomar drew a bases-loaded walk to make it 4-1.