Times wires
Saturday, June 11, 2011
MILWAUKEE — Rickie Weeks hit a go-ahead two-run homer and Zack Greinke outpitched fellow Cy Young winner Chris Carpenter to lift the Brewers over the Cardinals 5-3 on Saturday night.
Milwaukee, the hottest team in baseball over the past month, pulled within a half-game of St. Louis for the NL Central lead.
Prince Fielder hit his seventh homer in the past eight games and Corey Hart added a two-run double for the Brewers, who improved their major-league best home record to 24-9, their best ever.
Lance Berkman homered off Greinke to give St. Louis a 2-1 lead in the sixth, but Milwaukee scored four in the bottom half off Carpenter on Weeks' shot and Hart's double.
Daniel Descalso's RBI double cut Milwaukee's lead to 5-3 in the seventh, but reliever Kameron Loe pitched a quiet eighth and John Axford converted his 14th straight save opportunity.
St. Louis came into town with the most road wins in the majors at 20, but the Cardinals will try to avoid being swept out of first place this afternoon.