Cards Look Good In Win vs Brewers

Final Score: St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 1

Milwaukee, WI (Sports Network) - Adam Wainwright pitched seven innings of one-run ball and hit his third career home run, helping the St. Louis Cardinals to an 8-1 win over Milwaukee in an NL Central battle.

Wainwright Helping Himself With a HR

Wainwright (5-2) took the win after allowing the one run on five hits and two walks, while striking out nine. Wainwright hit one of St. Louis’ four homers, as the club also got one apiece from Colby Rasmus, Chris Duncan and Nick Stavinoha — who hit the first of his career.

Skip Schumaker went 3-for-5 with a double and one run batted in for the Cardinals, who had dropped the opener of this three-game set on Monday, but moved back into a tie for first place in the division with Tuesday’s win.

Jeff Suppan (3-4) took the loss after giving up five runs on seven hits — three of them homers — in 3 2/3 innings of work, as the Brewers tumbled to their fourth loss in five games.

Prince Fielder had the lone RBI for Milwaukee, while Mike Cameron and Craig Counsell each had two hits. Additionally, Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun left before the top of the fifth inning because of a wrist injury he sustained when Wainwright hit him with a pitch in the third.

Stavinoha’s homer in the second and Albert Pujols’ sacrifice fly in the third made it a 2-0 Cardinals lead. The Brewers got a run back in the home third, on Fielder’s RBI ground out, but St. Louis responded with a three-run fourth.

Rasmus began the frame with a solo blast, and three batters later Wainwright sent a line drive over the wall in left-center field. Joe Thurston followed with a double, and he scored on Schumaker’s single to chase Suppan and make it a 5-1 game.

Seth McClung replaced Suppan and recorded the final out, but the Cardinals got to him in the sixth inning. Schumaker hit a two-out double and Duncan homered to right-center, putting St. Louis up 7-1.

Pujols’ run-scoring single in the eighth completed the scoring.

Game Notes

Wainwright hit his first homer since April 16, 2008, when he hit one off the Brewers’ Carlos Villanueva…St. Louis went 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position and left nine on base…The Brewers left eight on base and were 0- for-8 with RISP…Stavinoha, Rasmus, Thurston and Duncan each had two hits for the Cardinals.