SPORTSTICKER NL RECAP LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- Raul Mondesi hit his league-leading 16th homer as the Los Angeles Dodgers outslugged the St. Louis Cardinals, 10-7, despite another historic home run by Mark McGwire. Mondesi, who is just one long ball off the pace of major league-leader Jose Canseco, had an RBI triple in the fourth before capping the scoring with a solo shot in the eighth. He has homered in seven of his last 11 games. "It was a real good night for me," Mondesi said. "The team won and tomorrow we go back at it." McGwire, who hit his first-ever Dodger Stadium homer in the first off Darren Dreifort, became only the third player to hit a ball out of the park in the eighth, pulling St. Louis within 9-7. He lifted a 2-0 offering from rookie reliever Jamie Arnold that sailed high above the seats in left center-field before bounding off the roof and into the parking lot. The shot was estimated at 484 feet and marked the first time a baseball left Chavez Ravine since Mike Piazza's blast on September 24, 1997 off Colorado's Frank Castillo. "It was a nice hit," McGwire said. "I get paid to see the ball and hit it. God gave me the talent to do it and I try doing it every day. The home run is meaningless because we lost." "You throw a 2-0 slider, you got to think he's waiting on a fastball," Los Angeles catcher Todd Hundley added. "He got all of it. I hope he got all of it. If he didn't, it's not fair." Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell accomplished the feat twice, including a 506-foot blast on August 5, 1969. Los Angeles closer Jeff Shaw, who surrendered a game-winning homer to Ray Lankford in St. Louis on Sunday, induced the left fielder to line out with two on in the ninth, recording his ninth save. "Anytime you can capitalize on a save opportunity in a big game, it helps," said Shaw, who had given up a run in each of his previous three outings. "Fortunantely, we came through." St. Louis starter Clint Sodowsky (0-1) made an unsuccesful jump from the bullpen, surrendering eight runs and nine hits over 3 1/3 innings. Dreifort (5-2) notched the win despite yielding five runs and six hits in six innings. He helped himself with a two-run single during a five-run first. Fernando Tatis hit his team-leading 13th homer in the fourth. McGwire is one behind him and climbed into a tie for fourth with Jimmie Foxx on the all-time list with his 55th career multi-homer game. Todd Hollandsworth his his first homer of the season for the Dodgers, who had lost five of six but stayed above the .500 mark with the win. With two out and no one on in the first, McGwire teed off on Dreifort's 2-0 pitch, sending it deep into the left-field seats to stake the Cards to a 1-0 lead. The Dodgers came right back in their first at-bat. Devon White walked before Hollandsworth, making his first career start at first base, sent a 3-1 pitch from Sodowsky over the fence in right to spark the five-run outburst. The lead grew to 6-1 in the second on Dave Hansen's RBI single. Lankford, who homered twice in Friday's 10-6 victory, cut the deficit to 6-2 with an RBI double in the fourth. Tatis smacked a full-count fastball over the left-field wall to lift the Cards within 6-5. "It seems like the fences are coming in towards home plate," Dodgers manager Davey Johnson said. "I've quit saying, `Stay in here,' because I know they're not." But Los Angeles responded with two runs in the bottom half. Hollandsworth singled and scored on Mondesi's triple that sent Sodowsky to the showers. Hundley greeted reliever Lance Painter with a run-scoring single that made it 8-5. St. Louis has taken five of nine meetings from Los Angeles this season in a series that ends Sunday.  