MONTREAL – Tomo Ohka and Rocky Biddle combined on a three-hitter, and Jose Vidro homered and drove in two runs in leading the Montreal Expos over the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 on Saturday night for their season-high third straight win.

Ohka (1-5), who lost his first five starts of the season, allowed Albert Pujols’ double in the fourth and a pair of singles to Hector Luna in the fifth and eighth for his first complete game of the season.

Ohka struck out six and walked one in his fifth career complete game, and second by an Expos pitcher in three games. Biddle pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save in as many opportunities to complete Montreal’s third shutout of the season.

Vidro hit an RBI double off Jason Marquis (1-3) in the third to give Montreal a 1-0 lead.

Montreal’s second baseman added his fourth homer in the fifth, a drive just over the wall in the left-field corner on a 3-2 pitch to make it 2-0.

The Expos have won five of six after losing 20 of its first 25 games. Despite the win, Montreal is still off to a franchise-worst 10-21 start, matching the 1999 team.

St. Louis fell to 9-5 on the road, including 2-3 on its current trip.

Rookie Terrmel Sledge went 2-for-3 to extend his hitting streak to 10 games. He’s hitting .533 (16-for-30) during the streak, and has raised his average to .266 since beginning the season – and his career – with one hit in his first 34 at-bats (.030).

Marquis, who hasn’t won in four starts since April 17, allowed seven hits and two runs in seven innings to drop his second straight decision.

Notes: Cardinals SS Edgar Renteria didn’t play Saturday. He left Friday’s 4-2 loss in the sixth inning because of back spasms, and is day to day. … Livan Hernandez pitched the Expos’ first complete game of the season in a 3-1 win over Colorado on Thursday. … Former Expos OF Warren Cromartie was given a warm ovation from the crowd of 5,611 when he was shown on the video scoreboard. The Expos are giving away 5,000 Cromartie bobblehead dolls – featuring his familiar gap-toothed smile – as a promotion for Sunday’s game.

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