MILWAUKEE \u2014 Christian Yelich homered and Trevor Megill escaped a jam in the ninth inning, sending the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday in the finale of a four-game series.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The Milwaukee Brewers topped the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 in the finale of a four-game series
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Christian Yelich homered and Trevor Megill escaped a jam in the ninth inning
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Drew Avans and Sal Frelick each drove in a run for Milwaukee, which won for the fourth time in six games
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Yelich had three hits, and Caleb Durbin went 2 for 3<\/p>\n
Drew Avans and Sal Frelick each drove in a run for Milwaukee, which won for the fourth time in six games. Yelich had three hits, and Caleb Durbin went 2 for 3.<\/p>\n
Iv\u00e1n Herrera hit his eighth homer for St. Louis with two out in the eighth inning. Willson Contreras also drove in a run.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals wasted a prime scoring opportunity against Megill in the ninth. Nolan Arenado hit a leadoff single on the 12th pitch of his at-bat, and Nolan Gorman followed with a bunt single.<\/p>\n
The runners advanced on a one-out wild pitch, but Megill fanned Victor Scott II and Masyn Winn for his 15th save in 17 opportunities. It was the Brewers’ third win of the four-game set.<\/p>\n
Yelich hit a solo drive in the fourth for his 14th homer and Avans’ sacrifice fly off Miles Mikolas gave Milwaukee a 2-1 lead. It was Avans’ first career RBI.<\/p>\n
The Brewers added another run in the seventh on Frelick’s groundout.<\/p>\n
Mikolas (4-4) struck out seven in six innings.<\/p>\n
Quinn Priester (5-2) pitched six innings of one-run ball in his fourth consecutive win. He struck out three and walked none.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Alec Burleson followed Herrera\u2019s homer with a ground-rule double, but Nick Mears relieved and struck out Contreras to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
St. Louis second baseman Brendan Donovan went 2 for 4 with a pair of singles. He returned to the lineup in the leadoff spot after he was removed from Tuesday\u2019s game with left big toe discomfort.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Cardinals are off Monday before opening a three-game series at the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The Brewers begin a three-game series at the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night. RHP Chad Patrick (3-6, 3.25 ERA) is scheduled to start for Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Christian Yelich homered and Trevor Megill escaped a jam in the ninth inning, sending the Milwaukee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,160,4,169,185,673,67,4311,4310,558,1519],"class_list":{"0":"post-109824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-st-louis","17":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","18":"tag-stlouis","19":"tag-stlouiscardinals","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114697108790416206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}