St. Louis Cardinals vs Milwaukee Brewers Match Player Stats On Aug 29, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Aug 29, 2017

MILWAUKEE -- Luke Weaver struck out 10 batters and Matt Carpenter hit his 18th home run of the season as the St. Louis Cardinals' offense erupted in a 10-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night at Miller Park.

St. Louis' batters combined for 11 hits. Luke Voit knocked in four runs, and Paul DeJong had three RBIs.

Weaver (3-1) worked 5 2/3 innings, holding Milwaukee to two runs on eight hits and a walk. He wasn't challenged until his final inning, when Keon Broxton's RBI single made it a 9-2 game and the Brewers went on to load the bases before Zach Duke took over and ended the threat.

Only three of the six runs allowed by Brewers starter Matt Garza were earned, but the veteran right-hander struggled, allowing four runs while walking five in just 3 1/3 innings.

Garza (6-8) made a barehanded grab of Weaver's bouncer to end the second inning but was bit by bad luck in the third as the Brewers committed a pair of errors that allowed the Cardinals to take a 3-0 lead.

Tommy Pham started the inning with a one-out single and took second when DeJong reached on an error by Travis Shaw. Garza walked Dexter Fowler, loading the bases for Kolten Wong, who bounced back to the mound.

Garza knocked the ball down but couldn't control it, and instead of what could have been an easy double play, he made a diving shovel-pass toss that catcher Manny Pina couldn't hold onto, allowing Pham to score.

The Cardinals added two more when Neil Walker's relay on a Voit grounder went high, making it a 3-0 game.

Eric Thames hit a solo homer with two outs in the bottom of the inning, but the Cardinals added two more in the fourth on DeJong's single, chasing Garza.

Carlos Torres gave up two more runs on a single by Randal Grichuk.

Carpenter's two-run shot in the fifth put the Cardinals up 9-1. St. Louis added yet another in the seventh on DeJong's second RBI single of the night.

NOTES: Cardinals C Yadier Molina was scratched an hour before the game because of lower right abdominal soreness. ... Milwaukee announced that LHP Brent Suter would make a rehab start Wednesday with Class A Wisconsin. Suter (left rotator cuff strain) will be joined at Wisconsin by C Andrew Susac, who will go on rehab as he works his way back from a strained right trapezius.