By JOE TOTORAITIS, Associated Press
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Yadier Molina hit two solo home runs, Kolten Wong added a two-run double, Luke Weaver pitched into the seventh inning and the St. Louis Cardinals held on for a 5-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.
Weaver (1-1) made one mistake in the first and Eric Thames hit it for his 25th home run of the season. Weaver regrouped and held the Brewers scoreless until Hernan Perez’s one-out RBI single in the seventh.
Weaver allowed five hits, struck out eight and walked two over 6 1/3 innings in his first road start of the season.
Molina homered in the fourth and then crushed the first pitch from Brent Suter (2-2) leading off the sixth over the wall in left for his 12th of the season and fourth career multi-homer game.
Jesus Aguilar hit a pinch-hit, two-run homer off John Brebbia in the eighth. Trevor Rosenthal got the last four outs for his seventh save.
Cardinals 5, Brewers 4
| St. Louis | Milwaukee | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
| Wong 2b | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Sogard 2b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rsnthal p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Villar ph-2b | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pham cf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Thames 1b-rf | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| DeJong ss | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Braun lf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Gyorko 3b | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | T.Shaw 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Y.Mlina c | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | Do.Sntn rf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mrtinez lf | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | C.Trres p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duke p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Aguilar ph-1b | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Brebbia p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Pina c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G.Grcia 2b | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Broxton cf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Voit 1b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | Hughes p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grichuk rf-lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Arcia ss | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| L.Waver p | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Suter p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pscotty rf | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Jffress p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| H.Perez rf-cf | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Totals | 35 | 5 | 10 | 5 | Totals | 35 | 4 | 8 | 4 |
| St. Louis | 010 | 103 | 000—5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee | 100 | 000 | 120—4 |
E_DeJong (5). LOB_St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 7. 2B_Wong (17), Y.Molina (16), Braun (15), Broxton (13), Arcia (15). HR_Y.Molina 2 (12), Thames (25), Aguilar (10). CS_Pham (5). S_Suter (1).
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ||
| St. Louis | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weaver W,1-1 | 6 | 1-3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Duke H,1 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Brebbia H,2 | 2-3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rosenthal S,7-9 | 1 | 1-3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Milwaukee | |||||||
| Suter L,2-2 | 5 | 1-3 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| Jeffress | 2-3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Torres | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Hughes | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
HBP_by Suter (Pham).
Umpires_Home, Vic Carapazza; First, Tom Hallion; Second, Mark Ripperger; Third, Chad Whitson.
T_2:58. A_34,433 (41,900).
