Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
St. Louis 7, Milwaukee 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Saturday, September 21, 2013
Where: Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Alfonso Marquez, 1B - Ted Barrett, 2B - Mike DiMuro, 3B - Scott Barry
Attendance: 35008

Cardinals 7, Brewers 2: Matt Adams hit a two-run homer for the second straight game to back 6 1/3 strong innings from Lance Lynn as visiting St. Louis inched closer to a postseason slot.

Lynn (14-10) allowed one run on four hits and struck out seven as the Cardinals maintained a two-game lead over Pittsburgh atop the National League Central and reduced their magic number to one for clinching a playoff berth. Lynn ended an eight-start winless drought to notch his first victory since Aug. 4.

David Freese and Daniel Descalso each had two-RBI hits in a five-run eighth inning against Milwaukee's bullpen to break the game open and give St. Louis its fourth win in five games.

Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo (11-10) struck out seven in as many innings, giving up two runs on four hits to halt his three-game win streak. Rob Wooten relieved in the eighth and was battered for five runs on four hits in two-thirds of an inning.

Adams continued his torrid stretch by crushing a 1-2 breaking ball from Gallardo into the seats in right field for his 16th homer and fifth blast in 11 games. Khris Davis accounted for both of Milwaukee's runs with a groundout in the first and a ground-rule double in the eighth.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Cardinals 2B Matt Carpenter collected his 54th double to surpass Hall of Famer Stan Musial for the most by a left-handed hitter in franchise history. ... Brewers 3B Aramis Ramirez, who homered and drove in five runs Friday night, was not in the starting lineup due to a scheduled day off. ... St. Louis' victory on Friday night was the 30th 90-win season in franchise history, third in the National League behind the Giants (42) and Dodgers (34).
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
St. Louis   Milwaukee
Lance Lynn Player Yovani Gallardo
Win W/L Loss
6.1 IP 7.0
7 Strikeouts 7
4 Hits 4
1.42 ERA 2.57
Hitting
St. Louis   Milwaukee
Matt Adams Player Jonathan Lucroy
2 Hits 2
2 RBI 0
1 HR 0
5 TB 3
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
St. Louis 9 1 14 .265 11 9 7 4 1 0
Milwaukee 7 0 10 .212 17 8 2 4 1 1
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