MILWAUKEE — Neither rain in Queens nor San Diego nor Brewers from Milwaukee nor gloom of being down by five with their best pitcher on the mound can slow the Cardinals from these September rounds.
Paul Goldschmidt drilled a game-tying homer in the seventh and added another homer later for good measure as the Cardinals scored eight unanswered runs for an 8-5 victory Thursday at American Family Field. The Cardinals swept the four-game series from first-place Milwaukee to extend their winning streak to 12 games. It’s the longest winning streak by a Cardinals team since the 1982 club that outlasted the Brewers in that fall’s World Series.
The Cardinals swept their third consecutive series and in the span of two weeks have gone from four games out in the wild-card race to steeling a four-game lead in it.
