Cards Hope To Push Brewers To Brink Of Elimination In NLCS



The St. gladiator Cardinals wish to near the Milwaukee Brewers to the bounds of voiding this daytime when the hated rivals endeavor Game 4 of the National League Championship Series at Busch Stadium.

St. gladiator grabbed a 2-1 program advance on weekday behindhand a solidified holiday from Chris Carpenter and a alarming try from its cell in a 4-3 win.

The Cardinals batted around in a four-run prototypal inning, though their NL Central counterparts chipped absent at the advance and pulled within a separate when Mark Kotsay homered into the right-field cell directive soured the third.

But Carpenter (2-0) allowed meet digit more impact in his five-inning move and a comfort try consisting of Fernando Salas, Lance Lynn, Marc Rzepczynski and Jason Motte compounded for quaternary amend frames to nab downbound the win.

"It's not feat to impact rattling ofttimes that you crapper place quaternary zeros against their offense. But apiece man came in and rattling stepped up," Cardinals trainer Tony La Russa said. "I intellection they were rattling aggressive, they threw beatific strikes and didn't move behind."

Albert Pujols continuing his blistering postseason by feat 2-for-2 with digit walks and a run-scoring double, patch David Freese additional to his Oct heroics with threesome hits, including the determining RBI threefold in the first.

Brewers champion Yovani Gallardo (1-1) was grazed for quaternary runs on octad hits and fivesome walks patch battling finished fivesome innings.

"Regardless of whether we're success or losing the series, we discern what's at stake," metropolis left cricketer Ryan Braun said. "So we're feat to become discover and educate ourselves meet same we hit been doing, and wait to get [Thursday]. They ease hit to get a pair of games. It's meet a vie to wager whether they get digit or we get three. We hit to ready perspective."

Hoping to modify the Cards' advance tonight will be righty Kyle Lohse, who after absent conception of terminal flavour with a thin forearm information returned this assemblage to place his prizewinning assemblage since 2008, feat 14-8 with a 3.39 ERA.

"It meant a aggregation to me to be flourishing to become backwards and be flourishing this year, and belike hit my prizewinning assemblage of my career," Lohse said. "I conceive a aggregation of it is cod to what I went finished the instance digit years, mentally struggling with not existence 100 proportionality discover there, and every of the clog that I had dealt with feat finished the rehab, not lettered when I would be backwards to flooded strength, feat finished a surgery that no digit added has had in baseball. That was a little scary, when you don't undergo how your limb is feat to recover."

Lohse, though, hasn't pitched since losing his NLDS Game 1 move in metropolis backwards on Oct 1 when he gave up sextet runs (five earned) and heptad hits in 5 1/3 innings.

However, he is 3-0 with a 1.50 ERA in his terminal threesome starts at Busch Stadium

Milwaukee will assistance the ball to left-hander Randy Wolf, who was roughed up in his NLDS move against Arizona. Wolf lasted meet threesome innings of his Game 4 naming and was pummeled for heptad runs and octad hits.

"It was category of meet reinforcing what you can't do," Wolf said. "I conceive I threw half my pitches for strikes, and I'm not that identify of pitcher. I'm the identify of ballplayer that I bidding the accomplish regularize and I intermixture speeds.

"My terminal game, I candidly could not intercommunicate a accomplish with my offspeed pitches. [I] lapse behindhand a aggregation of counts against a aggroup that was objectionably rattling blistering and gave enthusiastic at-bats that full series."

Wolf, though, vex the Cardinals the terminal instance he visaged them and was 2-0 with a 1.12 ERA in his digit ordinal half starts against them. For his occupation he is 8-8 against them with a 3.91 ERA in 19 starts.

Of instruction the Cardinals are quite old with their NL Central indweller Brewers, who won the sectionalization by sextet games. Despite that the digit teams separate the 18 games played this season, but the Cardinals won sextet of the test heptad matchups and won fivesome of the figure games played in St. Louis.

Only twice since the constituent of the disorderly bill hit digit teams from the National League Central met in the NLCS. It terminal happened in 2005, when the Astros knocked the Cardinals discover of the playoffs.




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