Milwaukee reliever Joel Payamps (3-7), who
entered to start the 10th, retired the first two hitters before
walking Nolan Arenado intentionally. Hoby Milner took over on
the mound, and Baker lined an RBI single up the middle to score
automatic runner Masyn Winn from second.
Ryan Fernandez struck out three in the bottom of the 10th for
his second save. Andrew Kittredge (3-4) got the win after
throwing 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Milwaukee (81-59) leads the National League Central by nine
games over the Chicago Cubs, who no-hit the Pittsburgh Pirates
in a 12-0 win on Wednesday. The Cardinals (71-69), who defeated
Milwaukee 7-4 in 12 innings Tuesday, are in third, 10 games
back.
St. Louis is 5 1/2 games out of a playoff position after taking
two out of three in the series.
After being held to one run through seven innings by Cardinals
starter Sonny Gray, the Brewers tied the game 2-2 on the first
pitch of the eighth when Eric Haase went deep to left-center off
reliever JoJo Romero.
Brice Turang then doubled and moved to third on a groundout.
Kittredge entered and fanned pinch hitter Wiliam Contreras.
Willy Adames was intentionally walked and stole second, but
Garrett Mitchell struck out to end the inning.
The Brewers, who had the leadoff man aboard in the fourth, fifth
and sixth innings, finally broke through against Gray in the
seventh. Mitchell opened with a triple down the right field line
and came home on Joey Ortiz's groundout.
The Cardinals capitalized on command issues by Brewers starter
Colin Rea for two runs in the first.
Paul Goldschmidt singled with two outs, extending his hitting
streak to 11 games. Nolan Arenado followed with a ground-rule
double and Brendan Donovan was hit by a pitch to load the bases.
Rea, who had not walked a batter in 23 2/3 innings over four
starts, then issued consecutive run-scoring walks to Ivan
Herrera and Lars Nootbaar.
Gray gave up a run on four hits and a walk in seven innings. He
struck out seven.
Rea lasted four innings and yielded two runs on four hits and
two walks with four strikeouts.
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