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 After starter Lance Lynn threw 99 pitches through five innings, the
next few pitchers eventually did their job, but trouble was always
mere moments away.
"We had to use multiple guys because we kept getting into trouble,"
Matheny said. "Someone else had to come in and do their job. Ideally
that's not what it looks like. We'd like to use guys for multiple
innings, so we're not getting them all up every night. But when
you're fighting to finish it up, you have to do what you've got to
do.
"But I'm not happy about that. It's not how we've drawn it up. This
is not what we're going to do. We can't. It's too much of a
workload."
As for Lynn, who won the 50th game of his career, Matheny said, "It
was a full day even though it wasn't as long as what he wanted. He
wanted to go back out there as he always does."
Lynn became the first Cardinals starter this season not to pitch at
least six innings, which disappointed him.
"I wasn't sharp," Lynn said. "I threw a lot of pitches and got to a
lot of deep counts. When they did swing, they fouled off a lot of
pitches. I left the bullpen in a tough spot where they had to use a
lot of guys. I have to be better than that."
The Brewers punched out 10 hits, but left 11 runners on base,
including three on second and three on third.
Said manager Ron Roenicke, "We certainly had our share of chances.
We got a lot of hits early. But we're just not stringing them
together. We need to get a key hit and we need hits in bunches."
Added catcher Jonathan Lucroy, "We need to get guys hot. Once that
happens everyone will start moving forward and the other guys will
catch hot, too."
Rosenthal notched his third save of the season, although he allowed
a run in the ninth after the other five relievers -- Kevin Siegrist,
Seth Maness, Matt Belisle, Randy Choate and Jordan Walden -- gave up
no runs and four hits in three innings.
The Cardinals jumped on Brewers starter Wily Peralta for two runs in
the bottom of the first, stringing together three hits by the first
three batters on just six pitches.
Third baseman Matt Carpenter led off the game with a single up the
middle. Right fielder Jason Heyward laced a double down the
left-field line, sending Carpenter to third. Left fielder Matt
Holliday then also went the other way, stroking a single to right on
the first pitch, scoring Carpenter and Heyward.
The Brewers cut the lead in half in the third when Lucroy worked
Lynn for a one-out walk, just the eighth walk given up by Cardinals
starters in their first 39 2/3 innings.
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After right fielder Ryan Braun sent Lucroy to second with a single
to right, third baseman Aramis Ramirez scored Lucroy with a two-out
single that fell just in front of center fielder Jon Jay after a
Lynn strikeout of first baseman Adam Lind. It was just the second
time this season that a player walked by a St. Louis starter came
around to score.
St. Louis extended its lead to 4-1 in the fourth. Shortstop Jhonny
Peralta, Jay and catcher Yadier Molina opened the inning with
singles, with Peralta scoring on Molina's second hit of the game.
Then, with two outs, Carpenter bounced a double off the wall in
right field, scoring Jay, but the slow-footed Molina was stopped at
third. Heyward bounced out to second to end the inning.
The Brewers' final run in the ninth was driven in by Braun, who
singled in pinch-runner and pitcher Kyle Lohse, who was on second
base courtesy of a Rosenthal wild pitch. Lohse was running for
center fielder Carlos Gomez, who suffered a strained hamstring
beating out a potential double play.
NOTES: Brewers OF Gerardo Parra started in left field for the first
time this season. He replaced Khris Davis, who had started all seven
games in left and reached base safely in each game. Parra, who had
two previous starts this year in right field, homered off Cardinals
RHP Lance Lynn in St. Louis on Sept. 16. ... Lynn made the 99th
start of his career on Wednesday night. ... The open date Tuesday
was the fourth for the Cardinals in the first 10 days of the season
thanks to three scheduled off days and a postponed game in Chicago.
... Similar to other games around the major league, all players,
coaches and managers wore uniform No. 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson
Day on the 68th anniversary of his debut as the first
African-American player. ... Brewers CF Carlos Gomez, who limped off
the field after beating out a potential double play in the top of
the ninth, will have further tests on a strained hamstring, and he
will not play in Thursday afternoon's series finale.
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