St. Louis Cardinals

Another Brewers Rookie Drives In Winner Late

From Elias: Jeff Bianchi's two-run single in the 10th inning provided the winning margin in the Brewers' 6-4 win at St. Louis. Bianchi is the second rookie this season to drive in the winning run in the ninth inning or later. The other, Blake Lalli, also did it for Milwaukee, against the Giants on April 17.

Top 5 National League Starters

Doug Glanville and Manny Acta break down their top starting pitchers in the National League.

Brewers 6, Cardinals 4(10)

Brewers 6, Cardinals 4(10)

Shoulder strain sends Cardinals' Garcia to DL

The St. Louis Cardinals have placed left-hander Jaime Garcia on the 15-day disabled list with a left shoulder strain.

Brewers Top Cardinals In 10

The Brewers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Cardinals in ten innings.

Brewers top Cardinals in 10 innings

Out Of The Deep Freese

From Elias: David Freese entered Friday night's game homerless in his last 112 at-bats, the longest drought of his big-league career; he had not homered since September 19 of last season, off Lucas Harrell. But with the bases loaded and two outs in the first inning, Freese took a Wily Peralta pitch over the centerfield fence for his second career grand slam. The Brewers would rally but never tie the game, with the Cards winning, 7-6. Freese was the first Cardinals third baseman to homer this season, in their 41st game; the last time that the Cardinals went deeper into a season without a home run from the hot corner was 1986, when they went homerless from third base in their first 112 games of the season: their first homer from third base was hit by Terry Pendleton on August 14 of that year, against the Mets' Ron Darling at Shea Stadium.

Ramirez: 2 Homers, 6 Rbi And A Loss

From Elias: Aramis Ramirez belted a pair of three-run homers to account for all of the Brewers' runs at St. Louis, but those blasts were not enough to prevent a 7-6 Cardinals victory. You have to go back nearly four years to find the last time that a big-league player who produced a multiple-homer game with at least six RBI did not come up a winner; the last such instance came on July 20, 2009, when Justin Morneau had two home runs and seven RBI in a game that the Twins lost to the Athletics by a 14-13 score. (One reason that the Twins lost that game: Matt Holliday had two homers and six RBI for Oakland!) Following that 2009 game, major-league players had gone 69-0 in games in which they contributed two homers and six RBI -- until Ramirez's Brewers lost on Friday night.

Cards without Westbrook

The St. Louis Cardinals rotation, currently the best in baseball, will be missing Jake Westbrook for a bit longer. The veteran right-hander is on the DL with right elbow inflammation, is having continued discomfort in the area, according to Rick Hummel of the Post-Dispatch.