Cardinals Snap Losing Streak, Beat Brewers 8-5

NOBODY BEATS ST. LOUIS EIGHT GAMES IN A ROW!!!

Our long national nightmare is over: the St. Louis Cardinals have won a baseball game.

The Cards (37-34) snapped its six-game losing streak Saturday evening in Milwaukee, beating the Brewers (38-34) 8-5 to avoid going down 3-0 in the series.

The Cardinals scored a total of two runs in the first two games of this series; they had 10 total hits over that same span. St. Louis matched that output today and got four runs from two swings by Wilson Contreras and Nolan Gorman.

St. Louis wasted no time jumping on Milwaukee, as the Cards got its first three batters on base. Masyn Winn came home after Burleson singled to center.

Turns out, that first inning run was all the support Andre Pallante needed. After issuing a leadoff walk, Pallante responded in a big way and retired nine consecutive batters.

The fourth inning is when St. Louis really put some distance between themselves and the Brewers. St. Louis made their own luck, after Nolan Arenado singled to lead off the fourth, and moved to second when Gorman drew a walk. Victor Scott hit into a fielder’s choice, but a throwing error by Durbin allowed Arenado to come home and double LSU’s lead. Victor Scott then tacked on two more runs with a two-run single.

St. Louis really blew the game open in the fifth inning when Gorman crushed a three-run home run to right center field.

To their credit, Milwaukee answered St. Louis’s three-spot with three runs of their own and chased Pallante along the way. With two on and only one out, Frelick doubled to make it a football score, 7-3, and then Chourio brought Frelick home to make it 7-4 (still a football score, just way more unorthodox). That ended up being the end of the road for Pallante who only lasted 4.1 innings. While he didn’t extend as deep into the game as one would have liked, he still managed to strikeout seven against two walks and just four hits.

Leahy ended up being credited with the win. Leahy improved to 2-1 on the year after going 1.2 innings and just 22 pitches.

The sixth, seventh, and eighth innings produced no runs on either side, but the ninth was pretty cool because both Contreras brothers homered. Wilson went deep to make it 8-4, and then William matched in the home half to bring it back to 8-5.

St. Louis will try to salvage a series split tomorrow afternoon. Mikolas is scheduled to go up against Priester at 1:10.