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The St. Louis Cardinals lost 6-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers, with a key 3-run home run by Andrew Vaughn. Despite late-game scoring, the Cardinals couldn't overcome an early deficit.
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The Brewers jump Pallante for an early 4-0 with a 3-run HR by Vaughn being the mortal blow. After, the pitchers traded outs into the middle innings, the Brewers tacked on a small-ball run in the fifth to extend the lead. Otherwise, both teams had some traffic but couldnāt buy a big hit, carrying a 5-0 lead deep into the game. Single tallies in the bottom of the 8th, top of the 9th and bottom of the 9th blemished the late relieversā lines but did little to alter the outcome.
Pallante gets two quick outs to start the game. Then a quick succession of single, HBP, single (of the RBI variety) and a long 3-run HR that is absolutely mashed for a quick 4-0 lead. put two runners on in the bottom of 1, with a Herrera double and a Walker walk. Sproat was pitching around Walker. Man, things have changed. Gorman strikes out. So, not everything has changed. In the end, the Cardinals are unable to respond.
The final score was 6-2 in favor of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Andrew Vaughn hit the 3-run home run that contributed to the Brewers' early lead.
The Cardinals struggled offensively, managing only two runs and failing to capitalize on scoring opportunities.
The Cardinals will play a four-game series against the San Diego Padres next.

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Pallente works a quick clean second inning. Cardinals get Church on via HBP, but otherwise quiet inning. Pallante faces the minimum 3 batters in the third, aided by a GIDP following a Chourio single. Pallante walks Bauer leading off the fourth, but promptly picks him off, then induces a couple of ground ball outs. All this efficiency gets APs pitch count back in order, which become the small victory of this game. In the bottom of the fourth, Walker leads off with a walk, steals second (somewhere an old schooler is turning over in his grave, stealing down 4-0). Gorman walks as well, but a Winn lineout and a Fermin GIDP upends the brief attempt at a rally.
In the fifth, the Brewers manufacture a small ball run with 2 IF singles, an F9 that advances the runner to third and an ill-timed wild pitch (is there ever a well-timed WP?). After a walk to complicate things further, a K quells the uprising.
Pallante returns for the sixth as the Cardinals prioritize getting another inning from a starter. A single, followed by a line-out and force-out continue the lackluster pace to the game, but yet another IF single adds drama, but AP gets a 6-3 to get through the sixth. Not quite a QS. APs line: 6 IP. 8 H. 5 R. 2 BB. 3 K. 1 HR (the killer). 104 pitches.
After Sproat is unable to get beyond the 4th inning (managerās decision), DL Hall relieves Sproat and works a quiet bottom of the fifth. Shuster in for Pallante to start the 7th. He works a 1-2-3 inning. Ashby relieves Hall and works a 1-2-3 sixth. That makes eight batters set down in a row. Ashby remains in and extends the streak of outs to ten before Fermin draws a walk inducing a check-swing 3u groundball from Pages. Shuster remains in the 8th. A harmless 2-out single is all to report here.
Megill in for Ashby for the Brewers. Scott II singles, first hit for the Cardinals since the first inning. JJW Kās on high heat. Teams are liking to throw that heat up at the top edge with him. Scott steals second. Herrera Kās again. Unusual. Must be the DH penalty + daytime getaway game penalty. Burleson with an RBI single. Walker bounces back to Megill to end the rally. Swanson in for Shuster in the ninth. Two backwards Kās show us he is on the road back, but a single and a double by the red-hot Chourio extends the lead to 6-1. A walk shows us there is more work to be done before a ground out quells the insurrection. Uribe relieves Megill, not a save opportunity. Gorman opens with a double, advancing to third on a Winn ground out. A rare Ortiz error plates a second run and puts Fermin on first and brings a brief rise from the crowd, but a GIDP by Prieto ends any suspense. Brewers defeat the Cardinals 6-2.