MILWAUKEE — On Tuesday, the Cardinals had one hit for seven innings and two for 10 before exploding for five runs to prevail in the 11th. Play it again, Sam, as on Wednesday night, the Cardinals again had one hit for seven innings before rallying.
Milwaukee righthander Brandon Woodruff had dominated them on Wednesday, striking out 10 and allowing only two base runners until Tyler O’Neill lifted a low slider and powered it over the right-field wall to tie the game at 1-1 with one out in the eighth. Woodruff had yielded just 16 hits over his previous 45 innings.
But there was no extra-inning magic this time. With two out and nobody on in the eighth, the Brewers started their own rally, a winning one, with a strikeout. Daniel Vogelbach whiffed but made it to first safely as Ryan Helsley’s high wild pitch on strike three eluded catcher Yadier Molina.
