By MATT PIKE
With Dustin May's workload limited for the St. Louis Cardinals, David Hamilton and Brice Turang drove in two runs each during a four-run seventh inning against the Redbirds bullpen and the Milwaukee Brewers rallied from a three-run deficit to beat the Cardinals 4-3 at Busch Stadium.
St. Louis built a 3-0 lead through the first six innings of the game. A fielding error by Turang led to two unearned runs off Milwaukee starter Shane Drohan in the third inning with Pedro Pagés scoring the first run as Nelson Velázquez grounded into a force out and JJ Wetherholt came home with an RBI single by José Fermín. Velázquez had a leadoff double in the sixth inning and scored on a single by Masyn Winn for the 3-0 advantage and the only earned run allowed by Drohan on six hits in six innings.
May threw 81 pitches on three days rest and left with two outs and runners on the corners in the fifth. Justin Bruihl was able to retire Christian Yelich to hold the 2-0 lead at the time prior to the Cardinals adding the third run. In the seventh inning, Garrett Mitchell opened with a single off Bruihl and Sal Frelick greeted Ryan Fernandez with a ground-rule double. Cooper Pratt was safe on Fernandez’s fielding error to load the bases and Hamilton followed with a two-run double to put the Brewers down by one.
Ryne Stanek came in, relieving Fernadez without him recording an out, and surrendered the go-ahead two-run single to Turang. From there, Chad Patrick struck out two in two perfect innings and Trevor Megill gave up a leadoff single to Winn before finishing off his 14th save in 16 opportunities.
May allowed four hits and struck out seven in 4.2 innings. Fernandez took the loss, falling 1-2 on the season, surrendering three runs, two earned, without retiring a batter. At the plate, Winn was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Fermín was 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
Next, St. Louis and Milwaukee will have a day-night doubleheader as part of a five game series. The Cardinals have not announced starters for either game while Jacob Misiorowski (9-4, 1.47 ERA, 156K's) starts the first game for the Brewers, with the second game starter not announced. First pitch in the first game will be at 1:15pm, coverage will begin at 1:05, while the second game will begin at 6:45pm with coverage starting at 6:35, both on KY 102 (102.5 FM).
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