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Woodruff returns to form as Brewers defeat Cardinals 5-1

Brandon Woodruff threw five shutout innings, Omar Narvaez homered and doubled, and the Milwaukee Brewers opened their home schedule with a 5-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday.

 

Woodruff (1-1) struck out two and allowed just three hits and a walk.The Cardinals trailed 2-0 but had two on with two outs when Woodruff got ahead of Paul Goldschmidt 1-2 in the count before two borderline pitches got called balls. Goldschmidt then hit an apparent inning-ending grounder but reached on catcher's interference to load the bases.

 

The Brewers gave Woodruff an early lead and delighted an announced sellout of crowd of 42,794 by scoring four runs in the first three innings off Adam Wainwright (1-1).

 

Kolten Wong ripped Wainwright's first pitch for a leadoff triple down the right-field line and came home on Andrew McCutchen's two-out single up the middle.

 

Milwaukee extended the lead to 2-0 in the second when Narvaez belted an 85-mph cutter from Wainwright over the right-field wall for his first homer since Aug. 11 and first RBI of this season.

 

The Brewers added two more runs in the third. Christian Yelich hit a leadoff double off the center-field wall and scored on Hunter Renfroe's two-out single. Narvaez followed with a double to left-center that brought home Rowdy Tellez, who had reached on a one-out walk.

 

Wainwright (1-1) struck out seven and allowed eight hits and two walks in 4 1/3 innings.

 

Milwaukee added one more run in the sixth as Wong singled home Jace Peterson, who reached with a single and two walks.

 

The Cardinals' only run came when Tommy Edman homered off Jandel Gustave in the eighth. Trevor Gott and Gustave each pitched two innings.

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