Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 2
When: 8:05 PM ET, Thursday, October 13, 2011
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature:
67°
Umpires:
Home -
Mike Everitt, 1B -
Bill Miller, 2B -
Mike Winters, 3B -
Gary Darling, LF -
Tim Timmons, RF -
Sam Holbrook
Attendance:
45606
By SportsDirect Inc.
The Milwaukee Brewers finally got a strong effort from their starting pitcher in a 4-2 victory over the host St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night, evening the National League Championship Series at two games apiece.
Ryan Braun drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth for the Brewers, who ensured that the series would make it back to Miller Park.
Milwaukee starting pitchers were carrying a 9.00 ERA in the NLCS through the first three games, and it did not look like that number would come down when
Randy Wolf (1-0) surrendered solo homers to Matt Holliday and Allen Craig in the second and third for an early 2-0 hole.
But the veteran lefthander settled down in the middle innings, allowing just two hits after the third while striking out six to pick up the win.
Francisco Rodriguez worked a scoreless eight and John Axford pitched the ninth for his second save of the series.
The Brewers got to Kyle Lohse (0-1) in the fourth, knotting it at 2-2 on back-to-back RBI hits by Scott Hairston and Yuniesky Betancourt.
Nyjer Morgan doubled leading off the fifth and moved up on a groundout, prompting the Cardinals to go to their bullpen for Mitchell Boggs to face Braun. The move backfired when Braun sent a single into left, plating Morgan to make it 3-2.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Milwaukee |
|
St. Louis |
|
Randy Wolf |
Player |
Kyle Lohse |
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
7.0 |
IP |
4.1 |
|
6 |
Strikeouts |
3 |
|
6 |
Hits |
6 |
|
2.57 |
ERA |
6.23 |
Hitting
| Milwaukee |
|
St. Louis |
|
Jerry Hairston Jr. | Player |
Matt Holliday |
|
2 |
Hits |
2 |
|
1 |
RBI |
1 |
|
0 |
HR |
1 |
|
4 |
TB |
6 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
.667 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Milwaukee
|
10 |
0 |
15 |
.278 |
18 |
8 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| St. Louis
|
8 |
2 |
16 |
.222 |
14 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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