Jake Bauers and Brice Turang went deep for the Milwaukee Brewers, who capped a long week in St. Louis by beating the Cardinals 8-4 on Thursday and taking four of the five games.
Turang (2-for-5) and Bauers (2-for-4) were joined by Jackson Chourio (2-for-5), Sal Frelick (2-for-4) and Cooper Pratt (2-for-3) as part of an 11-hit attack. Bauers hit a three-run shot, his 17th, to cap a four-run third inning. Turang hit his 13th long ball to lead off the seventh as he drove in a pair.
Jordan Walker homered for the Cardinals, who managed just five hits while falling for the fifth time in their last six games.
Logan Henderson (3-1) tossed 5 1/3 innings for Milwaukee in his first game since May 22. The rookie, fresh off the 15-day injured list with a strained lower back, allowed three runs on three hits, a walk and a hit batter.
Bauers played a role in the first two scoring frames. He hit a one-out single in the second off Andre Pallante (10-6) and later in the inning juked to avoid a tag from third baseman Jose Fermin on Andrew Vaughn’s fielder’s choice. Frelick and Pratt followed with run-scoring hits.
The singles barrage continued in the third as Garrett Mitchell, Chourio and Turang reached to start the inning. Turang’s hit extended the lead to 3-0. One out later, Bauers cleared the bases with a liner over the wall in right.
Pallante went five innings, giving up six runs on eight hits and two walks.
Henderson’s only blemish through the first five innings came in the fourth when Alec Burleson hit a one-out double and scored on Lars Nootbaar’s two-out hit.
He exited an out into the sixth after hitting JJ Wetherholt (2-for-3) to begin the inning and issuing his only walk to Burleson. Walker greeted Chad Patrick with his three-run blast to the third deck in left, his 22nd of the season.
The Cardinals threatened in the eighth when Wetherholt singled and Ivan Herrera walked to start the inning. Milwaukee reliever Aaron Ashby recovered to get Burleson on a forceout, Walker on three straight strikes and Nootbaar on a popup.
