MILWAUKEE — Any offense the Cardinals generated Tuesday night for the first 10 innings happened almost strictly in the infield and that generally doesn’t win you many games no matter how well you pitch.
Lefthander Kwang Hyun Kim held the Milwaukee Brewers to one run over 5 1/3 innings and the Cardinals’ bullpen followed suit. But the Cardinals had only four base runners against Milwaukee starter Freddy Peralta. One was an infield hit by Tommy Edman off Peralta’s leg. That was the only hit off Peralta in seven innings. The other three runners reached base on a walk, a hit batter and an error by Peralta.
But Harrison Bader’s leadoff single to left in the eighth against St. Louisan Devin Williams and Bader’s legs accounted for the tying run on Dylan Carlson’s sacrifice fly after Bader had tagged up from second and boldly gone to third on an earlier fly out.
