Gasser pitches career-best 7 2/3 innings in 10-2 win as Brewers sweep
Cardinals in doubleheader
[July 08, 2026]
BY JOE HARRIS
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Joey Ortiz homered, Robert Gasser
pitched a career-high 7 2/3 innings and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the
St. Louis Cardinals 10-2 Tuesday night to complete a doubleheader sweep.
Jacob Misiorowski struck out 11 in the first game of the split
doubleheader, which was a makeup from May 5, and the Brewers won 4-3. |
Milwaukee Brewers' Luis Lara, right, scores past St. Louis Cardinals
catcher Iván Herrera during the seventh inning in the second game of a
baseball doubleheader Tuesday, July 7, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP
Photo/Jeff Roberson) |
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Milwaukee has won four straight games and seven in a row against
St. Louis. The Cardinals lost their fourth straight.
Gasser (2-3) allowed just a two-run homer to Nelson Velázquez.
He struck out four, walked one and scattered four hits.
Cooper Pratt gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead with a leadoff triple
in the third inning and scored on a Christian Yelich groundout.
Luis Lara, in his major league debut, got his first hit and RBI
with a two-run single that gave the Brewers a 3-0 lead in the
fifth.
Milwaukee broke it open with seven runs against Cardinals
reliever Jared Shuster in the seventh. Ortiz started the
outburst with a solo homer and Brice Turang, Gary Sánchez,
Jackson Chourio and Pratt followed with RBI hits.
Cardinals starter Hunter Dobbins (1-1), who was appointed the
team’s 27th man for the doubleheader, allowed three runs on four
hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked three.
With St. Louis trailing by eight, infielder Bryan Torres pitched
two scoreless innings of relief.
Up next
Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (3-7, 3.12 ERA) will make his
final start before the All-Star break after having turn in the
rotation pushed back a day. The Brewers counter with LHP Kyle
Harrison (8-1, 2.82 ERA) in the fourth game of their five-game
series on Wednesday night.
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