The St. Louis Cardinals continued their mastery over the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park, taking game two of the series Tuesday night 2-1 in 10 innings.
St. Louis is 34-12 against the Brewers in Milwaukee since 2009.
This game was a terrific pitching duel between WilyPeralta and Adam Wainwright. Both starters had shutouts working through five innings.
In the top of the sixth, Peralta gave up a solo home run to Jedd Gyrko. He would leave after seven innings, allowing just that run on three hits with 10 strikeouts.
Wainwright set down the Brewers in order through the first three innings but he was touched for his only run in the bottom of the sixth when Martin Maldanado ripped an RBI double.
The game went to the bullpens and in the 10th, Corey Knebel gave up a single to Johnny Peralta, a double to Yadier Molina and the go ahead RBI single from Randall Grichuk.
The Brewers drew three straight walks in the bottom of the 10th against Todd Bowman but Zach Duke, the ex-Brewer, struck out pinch hitter Manny Pina to end the game.
It was the Brewers’ sixth consecutive defeat, all at home and all to division rivals and they fall a season low 20 games under .500 at 56-76.
The series and homestand wraps up Wednesday night with Matt Garza facing Luke Weaver. Pre-game coverage begins at 6:35 PM on WTAQ.
