ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright’s first two RBIs of the season helped knock out Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw in the sixth inning in a game that began in 103-degree heat as the St. Louis Cardinals ended Los Angeles’ five-game winning streak with an 8-2 victory on Tuesday.

Wainwright (8-10) allowed two runs and seven hits with seven strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings. Wainwright was batting .079 (3-for-38) with three singles and 17 strikeouts coming in.

Wainwright doubled to left-center with two outs in the fifth for St. Louis’ first run, then scored the tying run on Rafael Furcal’s single. After UC Davis graduate Daniel Descalso was intentionally walked to load the bases in the sixth, Wainwright walked on five pitches to give the Cardinals a two-run lead in a six-run sixth that put them up 8-2.

Kershaw (7-6) gave up eight runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings, the second-most runs ever allowed by the 2011 NL Cy Young winner.

Royals 4, Angels 1: At Anaheim, Will Smith pitched two-hit ball over seven innings in the longest of his five major league starts, Lorenzo Cain hit a two-run homer in the first, and Kansas City beat Los Angeles.

Smith (2-3) allowed a run, struck out four and walked four against the club that drafted him in 2007 and traded him to Kansas City in 2010. The only hits against the 23-year-old left-hander came in the first inning — a line-drive single through the box by Torii Hunter and an RBI single by Mark Trumbo that followed a walk to Albert Pujols.

Jonathan Broxton allowed two singles during a scoreless ninth for his 23rd save in 27 chances.

Garrett Richards (3-2) gave up four runs, five hits and three walks in five innings. The 24-year-old right-hander is trying to secure the fifth spot in the Angels’ rotation.

White Sox 11, Twins 4: At Chicago, Adam Dunn tied the game with his major league-leading 30th homer and Dayan Viciedo hit a bases-loaded single to cap a four-run seventh inning as Chicago rallied to beat Minnesota.

The victory allowed the White Sox to move into a tie for the AL Central lead with Detroit, which lost at Cleveland.

Dunn hit a two-run homer off lefty reliever Tyler Robertson to make it 4-4. Casey Fien (1-1) relieved and gave up a single to Paul Konerko, a double to Alex Rios and an intentional walk to Alexei Ramirez before Viciedo followed with his go-ahead two-run single.

Dunn added a two-run double and Ramirez had a two-run homer in a five-run eighth to put the victory away.

Rays 3, Orioles 1: At Baltimore, Jeremy Hellickson took a three-hitter into the seventh inning to earn his first win in 10 starts, and Tampa Bay got a home run from light-hitting Brooks Conrad in a win over Baltimore.

Jeff Keppinger had two hits and an RBI for the Rays, who were playing their first road game since the All-Star break. Tampa Bay made the most of six hits in bouncing back from two straight 2-1 defeats against Seattle.

Hellickson (5-6) gave up one run and three hits in 6 1/3 innings, striking out four and walking none. The right-hander was 0-6 since beating Boston on May 16, although he allowed more than three earned runs only once during his losing streak.

Fernando Rodney got three outs around two walks to complete the three-hitter and pick up his 28th save in 29 tries.

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