JUPITER, Fla. (AP) _ Mark McGwire and Jim Edmonds make a great pair.

The two, who homered in the same game nine times last season, connected Friday as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Kansas City Royals 10-5.

``I hope we can do it about 100 more times,'' Edmonds said.

McGwire's two-run homer in the fourth off Jose Santiago was his third homer of the spring and gave the Cardinals a 7-5 lead as they won their sixth straight.

Edmonds hit a three-run, opposite-field drive in the first off Dan Reichert, his second of the spring. Edmonds had been batting .200 with six RBIs _ all against Houston on March 6.

``I'm usually hitting .600 and it doesn't matter,'' Edmonds said. ``It is kind of different, though. It's weird to go up there feeling so good and not be able to do the right thing.''

Edmonds, who had a career-best 42 homers and 108 RBIs last year, said the major reason for his low average this spring is he's been trying to pull the ball.

``I haven't been getting pitches to pull and I've kind of been struggling with it,'' he said. ``I've been swinging too hard, trying to hit home runs. Today, I just tried to relax.''

Last year, Edmonds and McGwire homered in consecutive at-bats homered in consecutive at-bats.

Cardinals starter Matt Morris gave up three runs and six hits in three innings. Kansas City's Dan Reichert allowed three runs and five hits in three innings.

``There's always one bad pitch you want to have back _ it's either a home run or ball four,'' Reichert said. ``Edmonds is a great hitter and if you throw a fastball down the middle, he's not going to make a mistake and ground out, he's going to hit a home run.''

Morris gave up five singles in a three-run third, with Mike Sweeney, Mark Quinn and Luis Alicea driving in a run apiece.

``I had in mind what I wanted to do and just didn't execute,'' Morris said. ``I need quick outs and I need to go deeper into games with 60-pitch counts.''

Jermaine Dye had a two-run single off Mike Cather in the fourth.

Shane Andrews added a two-run single and pitcher Mike James drew a bases-loaded walk off Jared Camp in the Cardinals' three-run sixth. Andrews, battling for a roster spot, entered the game with two RBIs in 26 spring at-bats.

Notes: St. Louis RHP Garrett Stephenson was in a minor traffic accident Thursday night. But it didn't stop him from doing his scheduled throwing Friday. ... Cardinals 2B Fernando Vina, who injured his heel in the second spring game, is scheduled to return to the lineup Sunday or Monday. He's been taking fielding practice and hitting batting practice for three days.