Wainwright gave up three hits and one run in seven innings. His ERA dropped from 6.68 to 5.53. He threw seven innings of one-run ball, allowing only three hits and one walk while striking out ten.
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St. Louis’ Jedd Gyorko broke the scoreless tie with a two-out home run in the sixth.
The Brewers struck out 43 times in the three-game series, including a franchise-record 19 times on Monday, 12 in a 10-inning game on Tuesday and another 12 on Wednesday. With Brewers closer in the top of the first extra inning, Corey Knebel, loading the bases; I believe, that is when Matheny decided upon a different direction.
Peralta’s outing caught the eye of St. Louis manager Mike Matheny. Against Oakland this past weekend, the Cardinals went one-for-14 with runners at second base, third base, or both.
Yadier Molina hit a solo home run in the fourth for the Cardinals giving them a homer in a franchise-record 20 consecutive games. Back to back doubles in the bottom of the sixth from Keon Broxton and Marin Maldonado plated a no-out run, but the Brewers couldn’t push that oh so important second run across, with Ryan Braun losing a nine pitch battle vs. Wainwright with a weak grounder to short to end the inning. It was a RBI single from Cardinals center fielder Randal Grichuk that brought in the winning run in the tenth. Milwaukee had lost a season-high six consecutive games before Wednesday. He had three innings, 3-up/3-down, in his seven frames.
Twice in as many nights, they saw a late-inning lead disappear against the St. Louis Cardinals, and they were desperately trying to avoid it happening a third time. After Greg Garcia singled, he walked pinch-hitter Stephen Piscotty. Nieuwenhuis took advantage in the third inning Wednesday.
Not known for his offense, Garza also had one of the big at-bats of the game when he worked St. Louis rookie starter Luke Weaver for a two-out walk in the third inning. Last night, he issued three walks, one intentional to Jonathan Villar. Both were able to trot home when Kirk Nieuwenhuis got into a 1-0 changeup from Weaver and sent it far out to right for his 13th homer of the season and 11th at Miller Park. But Scherzer closed the door from there, striking out three more in the seventh and eighth en route to his 15th win of the season.
Peralta turned in his finest performance this year, but the Brewers lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 in 10 innings on Tuesday night. Wily Peralta received his second no-decision for his last two game starts.
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Cardinals: Luke Weaver (1-1, 3.60 ERA) will make his fourth major league start and first against the Brewers. From the left, Garza has allowed a.313 BA. He is 1-0 with a 1.72 ERA in three career games (two starts) against the Pirates. Weaver is coming off his first major-league win, and with each start he’s pitched better. He replaced (called up August 12) starter Michael Wacha, who is now on the 15-Day DL due to a recurrence of a scapular stress injury (inflammation of the shoulder).
