Chris Narveson shines as Milwaukee Brewers shutout St. Louis Cardinals 8-0 - MLB Update
Milwaukee Brewers’ starter Chris Narveson had an exceptional day with the ball as he tossed eight shut-out innings in the club’s 8-0 win over the National League leader St. Louis Cardinals in the series opener at Miller Park on Friday, June 10.
In his 13th start of the season, the 29-year-old hurler struck-out six batters, allowed just one walk and six hits over 115 total pitches to achieve his third win of the season. It was the second straight win for Narveson, who achieving this has
improved his record to 3-4 with a 4.32 ERA.
The right-hand managed to impress his manager Ron Roenicke, who expressed this game as a huge surprise for himself.
Not only Roenicke but the Brewers’ closer Tim Dillard also became a source of excitement for his manager. Dillard tossed a perfect ninth inning without allowing any hit and walk over nine pitches.
Roenicke said, "It was huge for me to see it. When I see things, I see things as I want him to get it going, not so much what the outcome of the game is. I know we're going to need him."
Narveson restricted the opposition’s batters with the ball while hitting a sacrifice fly to lead the game off for the Brewers in the third inning.
"I think you always need an outing like this," Narveson said. "It's definitely a good feeling to be able to go out there and just go out and get back to base one and get yourself set."
As the pitchers held the opposition to no-score, the batters piled up eight runs over the span of five innings starting from the third to eighth. In the third, Narveson and Nyjer Morgan each scored an RBI single to take 2-0 lead. Then in the fifth inning,
Ryan Braun hammered a striking two-run homer off Cardinals’ starter Kyle Lohse to elevate the lead 4-0.
In the sixth inning, Corey Hart launched a 389-feet long one-run homer and Rickie Weeks drove in a single to take it to 6-0. In the eighth inning, Josh Wilson and Morgan hit an RBI single each to elevate it to 8-0.
The Cardinals employed three pitchers including strong starter Kyle Lohse, but each of them went for runs. Lohse gave four runs on five hits, walked three and struck-out batter over five innings to lose his third game of the season. Reliever Ryan Franklin
went for two runs on three hits walked one and struck-out four batters over two innings while closer Brian Tallet scattered two runs on three hits in one inning of pitching.
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