{"id":35806,"date":"2021-10-09T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=35806"},"modified":"2021-10-09T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:56:31","slug":"seeking-12th-win-in-row-cards-adam-wainwright-battles-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=35806","title":{"rendered":"Seeking 12th win in row, Cards' Adam Wainwright battles Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Cardinals will turn to veteran right-hander Adam Wainwright as they look to extend their winning streak and continue their playoff push by completing a four-game road sweep of the division-leading Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Wainwright (16-7, 2.89 ERA) will be opposed by right-hander Adrian Houser (9-6, 3.43), who has won both starts this season against St.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Louis without allowing an earned run in 14 innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Cardinals pounded out 15 hits to push their winning streak to a season-high 11 games with a 10-2 victory over the Brewers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 4 1\/2 games ahead of Cincinnati and Philadelphia for the second NL wild card.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals moved within 8 1\/2 games of NL Central Division-leading Milwaukee, which has secured a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“I think this team shows up ready to play, to get out there the next day, or grow from the previous day,” Cardinals manager Mike Schildt said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“We grew from today. We’ll get after it tomorrow. Wayno will be out there and we’ll be ready to go.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

St. Louis jumped on Brett Anderson, activated off the injured list earlier in the day, for six runs — two earned — on six hits in 1 2\/3 innings in his first start since Sept.<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Miles Mikolas (2-2), who was sidelined from May 22 until Aug. 20 with a right forearm injury, allowed two runs on four hits in a season-high seven innings in his seventh start back from the injured list.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“I love feeling a lit bit of the pressure there,” Mikolas said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“Like, ‘Hey, don’t drop the ball. Don’t mess this up.’ We’ve got a really nice streak going here.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tyler O’Neill jumpstarted<\/a> the offense with a two-run homer in the first, his 29th. Paul Goldschmidt added his 27th homer, a two-run shot in the eighth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The longest winning streak in Cardinals history is 14 in 1935.<\/p>\n

The previous time they won 11 consecutive games was in August 2001.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has lost four in a row and six of its last eight. The Brewers have scored just 10 runs combined in the six losses, and have been outscored 17-5 by St. Louis in the first three games of the series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Milwaukee is 15-45 when scoring three runs or fewer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“There’s no secret on what offense is, we just haven’t done it over the past four or five days,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “We’re going to need to score more runs, I think that’s pretty clear. We will, we just didn’t do it again tonight.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Wainwright is 19-12 with a 2.47 ERA in his career against the Brewers, including 9-4 at Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The 19 victories are his second-most against any team (Pirates, 21).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After going 0-3 with a 4.08 ERA in five April starts, the 40-year-old Wainwright has played a key role in the Cardinals late-season surge. He is 9-1 with a 1.81 ERA in his last 12 starts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Wainwright allowed two runs in six innings in his last start, link alternatif dewadominoqq<\/a> but did not get a decision as the team rallied for a 3-2 victory over San Diego.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado, who drove in two to give him 103 RBIs on the season — along with a team-best 33 homers — was removed in the fifth inning with lower back tightness.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“We’ll evaluate it, there’s always some concern,” Schildt said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

“It felt better at the end of the game than it did when he got taken out, so that’s encouraging.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Houser is 6-1 with a 2.87 ERA in his last 17 games, including 15 starts. Milwaukee is 17-7 in games started by Hauser.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In his previous start, Hauser allowed five runs — four earned — in four innings without a decision in an 8-5 victory over the Cubs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

–Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Cardinals will turn to veteran right-hander Adam Wainwright as they look\u2026","protected":false},"author":8144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35807,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35806\/revisions\/35807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}