Shaw's homer in 10th lifts Brewers past Cardinals
ST. LOUIS -- Travis Shaw belted a three-run homer with two outs in the top of the 10th inning Monday night as the Milwaukee Brewers outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 at Busch Stadium.
Shaw victimized Seung Hwan Oh (1-1), who had to try to get four outs in the inning after a throwing error by second baseman Kolten Wong enabled pinch hitter Hernan Perez to reach base.
Jonathan Villar bunted Perez to second. After Eric Thames was intentionally walked, Oh slipped a called third strike by Domingo Santana. Shaw then ripped a 1-2 pitch 451 feet over the St. Louis bullpen in right-center for his sixth homer of the year.
Oliver Drake (1-0) pitched a clean ninth for the win, and Neftali Feliz picked up his seventh save despite yielding a leadoff homer to Jedd Gyorko, his second of the night.
Milwaukee (14-13) improved to 7-3 on the road. The Cardinals (12-13) lost their second consecutive game, falling to 3-3 on a nine-game homestand.
St. Louis erased a 4-2 deficit in the eighth with a pair of runs off reliever Jacob Barnes. Gyorko cracked a leadoff homer, his fifth of the year, and Wong's one-out infield single scored Stephen Piscotty with the tying run.
Both starters were not involved in the decision. Milwaukee's Zach Davies worked five innings, allowing seven hits and two runs while issuing two walks and fanning three.
St. Louis' Michael Wacha gave up seven hits and four runs in six innings with a walk and five strikeouts, failing to log a quality start for the first time in five outings this year.
Milwaukee opened the scoring in the top of the third. After a two-out single by Davies, Villar jumped on a fat pitch down the middle and launched it 450 feet to right-center for a two-run homer, his fourth of the year.
Manny Pina made it 3-0 in the fourth when he laced an RBI single through a drawn-in infield to score Santana. He led off the inning with a double down the left-field line and reached third on a groundout by Shaw.
Thames upped the lead to 4-0 in the fifth when he doubled to right-center, scoring Villar, who drew a two-out walk.
St. Louis threatened consistently in the first four innings without scoring off Davies, but finally got on the board in the fifth when Aledmys Diaz and Matt Carpenter launched back-to-back homers with one out.
NOTES: Milwaukee designated LHP Tommy Milone for assignment Monday and selected the contract of RHP Rob Scahill from Triple-A Colorado Springs. Milone was 1-0 with a 6.43 ERA in six appearances for the Brewers. ... St. Louis entered Monday night's game with a 3.32 ERA from its starting pitchers, the lowest in the majors. ... Brewers LF Ryan Braun (right trapezius soreness) didn't play Monday night after being injured Sunday in a 4-3 win over Atlanta, but 3B Travis Shaw (hand) was back in the lineup after sitting out Sunday.