Milwaukee 9, St. Louis 6
When: 4:05 PM ET, Sunday, October 9, 2011
Where: American Family Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Temperature:
76°
Umpires:
Home -
Gary Darling, 1B -
Tim Timmons, 2B -
Sam Holbrook, 3B -
Mike Everitt, LF -
Bill Miller, RF -
Mike Winters
Attendance:
43613
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Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder homered and combined for six RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers pounded their way to a 9-6 victory over the visiting St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday.
Yuniesky Betancourt added a two-run blast and Jonathan Lucroy singled in a run for the Brewers, who have won all four of their home games in the playoffs.
St. Louis held a 5-2 advantage when Jaime Garcia (0-1) fell apart in the fifth inning. The first four batters each recorded hits, with Braun’s two-run ground-rule double pulling Milwaukee within 5-4.
Fielder followed and launched the first pitch he saw - a cutter right over the heart of the plate - on a line over the right-center field wall to put the Brewers back on top and end Garcia’s day.
Betancourt followed two batters later with a two-run blast off Octavio Dotel, capping the six-run frame.
Zack Greinke (1-0) ended up with the win but was not sharp, allowing a run in the first. He put Milwaukee in a hole when he served up a three-run homer to David Freese on a high curveball in the fourth.
Greinke ended up charged with six runs in six innings but Takashi Saito, Francisco Rodriguez and John Axford each worked a clean inning to lock down the win.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| St. Louis |
|
Milwaukee |
|
Jaime Garcia |
Player |
Zack Greinke
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
4.0 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
|
6 |
Hits |
8 |
|
13.50 |
ERA |
9.00 |
Hitting
| St. Louis |
|
Milwaukee |
|
Lance Berkman | Player |
Yuniesky Betancourt |
|
2 |
Hits |
2 |
|
1 |
RBI |
2 |
|
0 |
HR |
1 |
|
2 |
TB |
6 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
.500 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| St. Louis
|
9 |
1 |
13 |
.257 |
11 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
| Milwaukee
|
11 |
3 |
25 |
.324 |
15 |
4 |
9 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
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