Brewers knock Cardinals out of 1st place with win

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ST. LOUIS (AP) – Mike Moustakas homered and Keston Hiura drove in a pair of runs to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in a rain-shortened game Wednesday night.

The game was stopped after 7 1/2 innings and made official following a rain delay of 66 minutes.

Milwaukee broke a six-game losing streak against the Cardinals, who were knocked out of first place in the NL Central, falling one-half game behind the Cubs. Chicago beat San Francisco 12-11.

Milwaukee, which won for the third time in nine games, is 3 1/2 behind the Cubs.

Adrian Houser (6-5) gave up three runs , one earned, and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. It marked the third straight start he’s allowed just one earned run. Houser struck out six and walked two.

Junior Guerra got the last out in the bottom of the seventh and earned his third save.

Moustakas, who also walked three times, hit a three-run homer in the first off Adam Wainwright (9-9) to highlight a four-run outburst. Hiura had run-scoring hits in the first and fourth innings for a 5-0 lead.

Wainwright gave up five runs and eight hits over five innings.

The Brewers needed just 17 pitches to go in front 4-0 as five of the first six hitters reached safely.

St. Louis capitalized on a pair of errors to climb to 5-2 in the fifth. Yadier Molina’s double brought the Cardinals to 5-3 with a double in the sixth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: St. Louis OF Tyler O’Neill went 1 for 3 in a rehab stint Wednesday for Triple-A Memphis. He missed the last 18 games with left wrist strain.
“There’s no crystal ball on that. He’s missed some time so we think some at-bats are important,” St. Louis manager Mike Shildt said. “Like most things, the player will let you know when he’s ready.”

UP NEXT

Cardinals: RHP Miles Mikolas (7-13) squares off against Colorado RHP German Marquez (12-5, 4.71 ERA) on Thursday in the first of a four-game set in St.
Louis. Mikolas is 0-0 with a 5.40 ERA in four career appearances vs the Rockies. Game time is 6:45 with the pre-game at 5:50 on KTLO-AM.

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