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PITTSBURGH -- The St. Louis Cardinals were done in by a nemesis.Jung Ho Kang led off the eighth inning with a home run, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-3 win over the Cardinals on Wednesday night to snap an eight-game losing streak and cost St. Louis a chance to sweep the three-game series.Kang hit a drive deep into the bullpens in left-center off rookie Alex Reyes (1-1) for his 17th homer and third in two games. It helped snap the Pirates longest skid since dropping 10 straight in 2011.The Cardinals are percentage points ahead of the New York Mets for the second NL wild card, and the Pirates drew within 4 1/2 games of St. Louis.Kang has hit eight of his 33 career home runs against the Cardinals, his most against any opponent, since coming to the major leagues prior to the 2015 season after starring in South Korea.Hes a tough out against everybody, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. The guys got some juice. He can put the ball in the seats. Some guys are dangerous and hes one of them.The third baseman returned from the disabled list Monday after missing 15 days with a sore left shoulder.I really, really reflected on myself and how much I really want to win and how much I really want to play baseball, Kang said of his time on the DL. I really spent good time thinking about that.Trevor Williams (1-0) allowed one unearned run in three innings for the win in his major league debut.Reyes gave up one run in 3 2/3 innings and also singled off Williams in the seventh for his first major league hit.Tony Watson worked a perfect ninth inning for his 11th save after blowing his previous two opportunities, including Tuesday night when he allowed three home runs in the ninth inning of a 9-7 loss.The Cardinals ended a streak of 25 consecutive games with a home run, a club record.Mike Leake went 4 1/3 innings in his first start for the Cardinals since Aug. 21 after being sidelined by the shingles virus. He gave up three runs, nine hits and a walk while striking out three.I wasnt locating as well as I know as I can, Leake said. Im sure being off a couple of weeks played a factor. Now Im back on track and ready for the next one.Matheny was happy with what he saw from Leake, who allowed back-to-back RBI singles to Gregory Polanco and Kang in the first inning when the Pirates sent seven men to the plate.He had a stressful first inning but then he got some momentum and pitched pretty well after that, Matheny said. Overall, I thought his stuff was good.Pirates starter Jameson Taillon pitched five innings. The rookie gave up two runs, six hits and a walk with five strikeouts.The Cardinals Yadier Molina scored in the sixth to make it 3-3. 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Fernando Alonso believes title success in the near future is only possible with either Mercedes or McLaren, adding that he has no regrets about leaving Ferrari.Alonso joined McLaren from Ferrari at the end of 2014, only for his arrival to coincide with a further dip in form for the British team as it partnered with Honda and a return to victories for the Italian outfit. This season McLaren has made incremental progress while Ferrari has recently slipped behind Red Bull as the best of the rest, but the two-time world champion has no doubt he is in the better of the two teams for his long-term title hopes.I was right. I was right because I felt I was right, he said. In 2014 I made the decision and had two years more on my contract, but felt I was right to go. Whatever results they achieve in 2015 and 2016 or in the future, for me my time there was fantastic and I wanted to finish on that fantastic feeling. Every year was a little bit more stress because you are not winning and it seems that it is your fault.Now it is not a relief that they are not winning or having more problems, I dont wish any problems on Ferrari because it is a team that I will always have in my heart. But in terms of driving, how competitive I can be or my third world championship hopes, then you drive for Mercedes or McLaren-Hoonda.dddddddddddd. That is my opinion and the feeling from that decision.Alonso has scored 26 points this season with a best result of fifth at the Monaco Grand Prix, but says results this year do not matter as McLaren prepares for a championship challenge under new regulations in 2017.We dont have an estimation and we dont think in that way, guessing which position we will be. We really dont care too much and we are just concentrating on being world champions. Being world champions requires a big improvement for next year and a lot of the efforts for this year are with a view to next years car, so all the new parts that we are trying are being used in a way to understand what direction to go next year.The power unit will be a key factor for us and that is the main limitation we still have now. We need to understand and push for next year to have a power unit that is comparable to our opponents. So the priority is totally focused on 2017 in our heads. Definitely the 2016 car is still being developed at the same time, so we will bring new parts this year, but we dont know if those new parts will be enough to gain position or not, its just more of an understanding thing. ' ' '