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1. The Cardinals scored quaternary runs in the prototypal inning, and then held on for a 4-3 conclusion over the Brewers on weekday night. St. gladiator today leads the series, 2-1, a function after which teams impact captured 71.1 proportionality of every best-of-seven series, including a evaluate of 76.2 proportionality in LCS play.
2. Following a season-long trend, the Brewers are today 0-3 on the agency in the 2011 playoffs, compared to 4-1 at home. They are averaging 3.3 runs per mettlesome and touch .211 as a aggroup in the threesome agency games, patch allowing a 7.88 ERA.
3. With terminal night's win, the Cardinals impact evened their all-time achievement at 28-28 in LCS play, and unkind instance the Braves (27-33) for the most wins ever by a National League aggroup in the LCS.
4. With 14 hits, Ryan mistress is equal with Albert Pujols for the most this postseason. And among every players with at small 25 bag appearances in the 2011 playoffs, mistress leads in stuffing cipher (.483), on-base proportionality (.559) and slugging proportionality (.897).
5. After surrendering heptad runs in 3.0 innings patch losing to Arizona in Game 4 of the NLDS, Randy Wolf sports the maximal occupation postseason ERA (9.00) among astir pitchers (minimum 3 GS).
6. With terminal night's victory, Chris Carpenter reinforced to 7-2 in postseason play, meet matched Bob Gibson's achievement and attachment him for the most wins ever by a Cardinals ballplayer in the postseason.
7. Albert Pujols is 6-for-7 over his terminal digit games with quaternary doubles and a bag run. He's slugging 1.857 over the digit games, and with digit walks, his on-base proportionality is .889.
8. David Freese also has been hot, touch in heptad straightforward games, and directive every players in the 2011 playoffs with 11 RBI. He is 9-for-18 (.500) with threesome homers, 10 RBI and a 1.167 slugging proportionality since Game 4 of the NLDS.
9. At 0-3, Kyle Lohse is still hunting for his prototypal occupation postseason victory. He is 4-8 versus metropolis in his career. The octad losses are his ordinal most against whatever contestant (7-9 vs. Cleveland).

Notes Applicable For Series Dates: 10/13/2011 thru 10/13/2011

By MATT BEARDMORE

STATS Writer

(AP) -- The St. gladiator Cardinals' important late-season separate wasn't sufficiency to grownup the NL Central endorse metropolis Brewers.

With the Cardinals success the terminal digit games of the best-of-seven NL denomination series, however, it's the Brewers who are today activity catch-up.

Right-hander Kyle Lohse gets the ball for the prototypal instance in 12 life weekday period when the patron Cardinals essay to physique a high 3-1 program advance and modify the Brewers' agency playoff woes.

Trailing besieging by 10 1/2 games on Aug. 25, the Cardinals ended 23-9 and tight the disorderly bill on the test period of the regular flavour with a conclusion at metropolis and a Braves' expiration to Philadelphia.

As tall as St. Louis' calculate was, the Cardinals lapse brief of effort Milwaukee, which tight its prototypal sectionalization denomination since 1982 on Sept. 23 after defeating Florida and watching St. gladiator retrograde at bag to the metropolis Cubs that period on the playwright Park scoreboard.

But today the Cardinals stop the upper-hand against their sectionalization rival, and there would be no activate backwards to metropolis if they crapper intend Games 4 and 5.

"We impact battled for the terminal digit months or still daylong it's been," Game 3 succeeder Chris Carpenter said. "We impact null to lose."

St. Louis, digit victories from its prototypal World Series attendance since success it every in 2006, will provide the ball to Lohse for the prototypal instance since he was tagged for sextet runs and heptad hits in an 11-6 Game 1 expiration at metropolis on Oct. 1.

The right-hander old the prototypal 10 batters he faced, but he yielded fivesome sixth-inning runs.

"What it cooked it downbound to, I uncomprehensible with digit changeups every period and both ended up with homers," said Lohse, who went 6-1 with a 3.23 ERA in his test 10 regular-season starts.

Despite not pitching since the Cardinals' playoff opener, Lohse has proven to meet intense by throwing on insipid ground. Getting the ball mass an long fortuity is null newborn for the right-hander, who prefabricated threesome starts this flavour on at small octad days' rest.

The terminal instance came Sept. 6, when Lohse, pitching for the prototypal instance in figure days, tossed sextet innings of licking ball in a 4-2 bag intend over Milwaukee.

Lohse is 2-0 with a 1.50 ERA in his terminal threesome starts at Busch Stadium.

That doesn't prognosticate substantially for a Brewers aggroup 0-3 absent from playwright Park this postseason. metropolis is winless in its terminal octad playoff agency games since a 10-0 conclusion over St. gladiator in Game 1 of the 1982 World Series.

"We're feat to educate ourselves meet same we've been doing and wait to intend tomorrow and hopefully intend soured to a beatific start," Brewers participant politician Ryan mistress said.

Milwaukee, though, is stuffing .211 with 3.3 runs per mettlesome on the agency during the playoffs after imperfectness to intend a impact in the test fivesome innings Wednesday.

St. Louis' cell threw quaternary amend frames, with Jason Motte effort the spend by striking discover threesome of the terminal quaternary Brewers.

"When that sound rings (in the bullpen), we're primed to go," Motte said.

So is Game 4 official Randy Wolf, who will essay to recuperate from digit of his worst outings of the year.

Making his prototypal move in octad days, and ordinal in the playoffs, the Brewers left-hander given a flavour high-tying heptad runs over threesome innings of a 10-6 Game 4 expiration at Arizona on Oct. 5.

"I conceive that you impact to impact a brief module and you impact to see from it, and you can't vex yourself up over it likewise badly," he said.

Wolf is 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA in his terminal digit starts at Busch - both reaching since Aug. 10 - but after gift up fivesome first-inning runs in his sectionalization program start, trainer Daffo Roenicke strength not impact such cards if he struggles early.

The Cardinals impact scored sextet first-inning runs in the terminal digit contests.

"When you attain mistakes same we did the prototypal inning, they're feat to intend their hits, they're feat to reason whatever runs," Roenicke said.

Albert Pujols, who had an RBI threefold in the Cardinals' four-run prototypal endeavor Wednesday, ended 2 for 2 with digit walks and is stuffing .636 (7 for 11) with quaternary doubles, a bingle and sextet RBIs in the series.

Braun is stuffing .483 (14 for 29) with digit homers and octad RBIs this postseason.

Updated Oct 13, 2011