ST. LOUIS _ The Cardinals pushed across seven runs in the seventh inning and went on to a 13-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers at Busch Stadium on Monday night.
Holding a 5-4 lead, the home team loaded the bases when Matt Carpenter hit an opposite-field double, Paul Goldschmidt walked and Paul DeJong singled.
Those three scored as Marcell Ozuna walked with the bases loaded, Jose Martinez hit a sacrifice fly and Yadier Molina followed with a run-scoring single to right-center field.
After a pitching change, Dexter Fowler singled to left-center, giving the Cardinals another run. Pinch-hitter Lane Thomas added to the lead with a bases-loaded single to left that drove in the two runs and made it 11-4.
A run-scoring single by Goldschmidt closed out the seven-run outburst.
In the eighth, Fowler singled to drive in the game's final run. It was the fifth four-hit game of his career.
Travis Shaw hit a solo homer _ the Brewers' fifth round-tripper of the night _ in the ninth for the visitors.
Goldschmidt's two-run homer in the fifth inning _ after the Brewers had tied it at 3-3 in the top of the inning _ allowed the Cardinals to regain the lead at 5-3.
The Brewers' Yasmani Grandal hit a solo shot with two outs in the sixth to make it 5-4.
The Brewers, who were held without a hit through 4 1/3 innings by starter Jack Flaherty, had tied it with three runs on a pair of home runs in the fifth.
Fowler's two-run shot into the Cardinals' bullpen in the fourth allowed the home team to stretch its lead to 3-0.
In the top of the fifth, Ryan Braun connected for the visitors' first hit of the game, an opposite-field home run with one out to make it 3-1.
After Eric Thames walked, Hernan Perez hit the first pitch he saw into the Milwaukee bullpen, evening the game at 3-3.
The Cardinals threatened but failed to score in the first inning against Milwaukee's Adrian Houser, who was making his first big-league start.
After starter Flaherty retired the visiting Brewers in order in the top of the first, Carpenter led off the home half of the first with a walk and Goldschmidt followed with an infield single.
But DeJong struck out and Ozuna hit into a 5-4-3 double play to end the threat.
The Cardinals jumped on top in the second on a two-out single from Kolten Wong. Martinez led off with a single, but was thrown out a third on a one-out Fowler single to Braun in left. But with two outs, Wong singled to right, driving in Fowler with the game's first run.
The Cardinals, who outhit the Brewers 18-5 in the series opener, got four hits, including a two-run homer, and four RBIs from Fowler and three hits, a two-run homer and three RBIs from Goldschmidt. Carpenter, DeJong and Martinez chipped in with two-hit games and Lane Thomas drove in a pair of runs. Flaherty (2-1) picked up the win, striking out 10 over six innings.
