ST. LOUIS _ For the second time in as many days, a Milwaukee error opened the way for a big fourth inning from the Cardinals as they knocked off the Brewers, 3-0, before a soggy crowd of 40,573 at Busch Stadium.
After Stephen Piscotty reached on a throwing error with one out in the fourth, the Cardinals came up with hits from Yadier Molina _ the 1,500th of his career _ Kolten Wong (two-run triple) and Greg Garcia (run-scoring squeeze-bunt single).
Friday night, an error by Milwaukee pitcher Matt Garza aided in a five-run outburst in the Cardinals' 7-1 rout that halted the Cards' seven-game losing streak at home.
The Cards and Brewers wrap up the series Sunday.
Saturday's game was delayed 1 hour, 32 minutes due to rain.
Starter Adam Wainwright pitched seven shutout innings and worked his way in and out of jams all day, improving to 7-5. He scattered seven, striking out five and walking two. He also benefited from double plays in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings.
The Cardinals turned a fourth double play to end the eighth inning.
"If we can play baseball like that every day, that'd be great," Wainwright said following the game. "We played good today. Tough lineup over there, but our guys our guys made plays when they needed to and we swung the bats when we needed to. Good win."
Wainwright continued: "My stuff was actually very mediocre today. I tried to mix and match it, cut it, sink it, curve it. At times I didn't have the best location, but I was always moving it somewhere, altering my delivery. I had way better stuff against Kansas City (in a 6-2 loss on Monday) than I did today, but that's baseball. You just try to make the pitches when you need to."
Jimmy Nelson (5-7) started and took the loss for the Brewers.
The Cardinals and Brewers each had seven hits in the game. With two singles, Milwaukee's Ramon Flores was the only player with more than one hit. Wong drove in two runs with his fourth-inning triple and scored when Garcia followed up with a squeeze-bunt single.
Seung-hwan Oh posted his first save with a 1-2-3 ninth inning.
