Jose Quintana tossed five solid innings and Christian Yelich had two hits and two RBIs as the visiting Milwaukee Brewers avoided a three-game sweep with a 7-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.
Quintana (4-0) allowed one run on five hits and has yielded three runs in 25 2/3 innings over four starts.
Quintana walked three and struck out six to become the first Brewers pitcher to win his first four starts for the team since CC Sabathia in 2008.
Brice Turang, William Contreras, Sal Frelick, Rhys Hoskins and Caleb Durbin each drove in a run for Milwaukee, which snapped a four-game losing streak. Jackson Chourio contributed two hits and Turang scored twice.
Brendan Donovan doubled in a run and Lars Nootbaar had two hits and a run for St. Louis, which had won three of its last four games.
Milwaukee took its first lead of the series with three runs in the first inning against Erick Fedde (1-3). With two runners on and one out, Contreras, Frelick and Hoskins delivered consecutive run-scoring singles.
Hoskins recorded his 500th career RBI with his single to right field.
St. Louis put two runners on with one out in the third before Quintana fanned Donovan and Nolan Arenado on called third strikes.
The Cardinals left 11 runners on base and were 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position after opening the set with back-to-back one-run wins.
Milwaukee extended its lead with four runs in the fourth. Isaac Collins hit a leadoff single and Joey Ortiz doubled before Durbin and Turang followed with a pair of RBI singles.
After a wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third and Chourio struck out, Yelich capped the rally with a two-run single to put the Brewers ahead 7-0.
Fedde gave up seven runs and tied a career high by allowing 10 hits over 5 2/3 innings. He walked two and struck out four while throwing a season-high 103 pitches.
The Cardinals pushed a run across in the fifth when Nootbaar hit a leadoff single and scored on Donovan’s one-out double to right field.
Grant Anderson, Nick Mears and Jared Koenig followed Quintana and combined to allow two hits over the final four scoreless innings.
