The 42-47 Milwaukee Brewers couldn't close the hatch on the 47-43 St. Louis Cardinals falling 3-2 Monday. Corey Hart's seventh-inning home run was the only run of the opener until the bottom of the eighth when Ryan Braun's RBI-double doubled Milwaukee's lead. St. L tied the game with Matt Holliday's two-run double drove in Matt Carpenter and Rafael Furcal during the top of the ninth with two outs and the bases loaded on a 2-2 pitch count. The Cards seized the lead on the Brewers with Allen Craig's RBI-single to left field.
St. Louis tries to steal another game Tuesday with a gem from 1-1 Joe Kelly and a 2.70 ERA stepping up to the bump. Kelly has only thrown six times this year with two of them coming in road environments at the 38-50 Kansas City Royals and at the 43-46 Miami Marlins in late June. Kelly conceded a total of five runs during 12 innings of an 11-4 win at KC and a 5-3 Cardinals loss at Miami.
Meanwhile Milwaukee turns to 2-6 Randy Wolf with a 5.80 ERA for Game Two. Wolf is 1-4 at Miller Park this season including losing 9-3 on April 8 to St. L allowing three runs during five innings. The 43-46 Arizona Diamondbacks, 48-42 Los Angeles Dodgers and 49-39 Pittsburgh Pirates also dumped in 18 runs, 17 earned, during 16 innings of Wolf home defeats. Wolf's only win at Miller this year came against the 33-56 Houston Astros on April 24 9-6 discarding four hits and two runs during six innings. The Cards are 60-for-261 with 35 RBIs, 11 Rafael Furcal's and nine Carlos Beltran's, versus Wolf. I don't like either team much this season so I'll cautiously side with the Brewers who are slightly better in Milwaukee than St. Louis is in away games.
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