ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Joey Ortiz homered, Robert Gasser pitched a career-high 7 2\/3 innings and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-2 Tuesday night to complete a doubleheader sweep.<\/p>\n
Jacob Misiorowski struck out 11 in the first game of the split doubleheader, which was a makeup from May 5, and the Brewers won 4-3.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee has won four straight games and seven in a row against St. Louis. The Cardinals lost their fourth straight.<\/p>\n
Gasser (2-3) allowed just a two-run homer to Nelson Vel\u00e1zquez. He struck out four, walked one and scattered four hits.<\/p>\n
Cooper Pratt gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead with a leadoff triple in the third inning and scored on a Christian Yelich groundout.<\/p>\n
Luis Lara, in his major league debut, got his first hit and RBI with a two-run single that gave the Brewers a 3-0 lead in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee broke it open with seven runs against Cardinals reliever Jared Shuster in the seventh. Ortiz started the outburst with a solo homer and Brice Turang, Gary S\u00e1nchez, Jackson Chourio and Pratt followed with RBI hits.<\/p>\n
Cardinals starter Hunter Dobbins (1-1), who was appointed the team\u2019s 27th man for the doubleheader, allowed three runs on four hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked three.<\/p>\n
With St. Louis trailing by eight, infielder Bryan Torres pitched two scoreless innings of relief.<\/p>\n
Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (3-7, 3.12 ERA) will make his final start before the All-Star break after having turn in the rotation pushed back a day. The Brewers counter with LHP Kyle Harrison (8-1, 2.82 ERA) in the fourth game of their five-game series on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Joey Ortiz homered, Robert Gasser pitched a career-high 7 2\/3 innings and the Milwaukee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,47085,3800,46956,1301,1127,3875,11714,12174,1513,2168,57928,4392,843,59,4280,4,17102,9500,9501,9496,9497,82856,82744,12052],"class_list":["post-746268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-brewers-cardinals-score","tag-brice-turang","tag-bryan-torres","tag-christian-yelich","tag-gary-sanchez","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jared-shuster","tag-joey-ortiz","tag-kyle-harrison","tag-luis-lara","tag-michael-mcgreevy","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-nelson-velazquez","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40822-ap-wisconsin-sports-only","tag-robert-gasser"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746268","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=746268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}