Lynn solid again, leads Cardinals to win over Brewers

ST. LOUIS -- Lance Lynn extended his April success with five solid innings and Matt Holliday had a two-run single in the first inning, lifting the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.

Lynn (1-1) allowed one run and six hits. He pushed his April record to 13-2 since 2012, the best record in the majors over that period.

Wily Peralta (0-1) gave up four runs on 10 hits over five innings for Milwaukee.

Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez was removed from the game in the ninth inning. He was limping after beating out a play at first base.

Yadier Molina had three hits for St. Louis, which won 12 of 19 against Brewers last season.

Kevin Siegrist, Seth Maness, Matt Belisle, Randy Choate, Jordan Walden and Trevor Rosenthal followed Lynn. Rosenthal picked up his third save despite giving up a two-out run-scoring hit to Ryan Braun in the ninth.

Lynn worked out of trouble in four of his five innings and threw 99 pitches. He rebounded to set the side down in order on 16 pitches in the fifth.

The Cardinals needed just six pitches to take a 2-0 lead. Matt Carpenter singled and Jason Heyward doubled before Holliday ripped the first pitch to right field. Holliday has a hit in all seven games this season.

Milwaukee cut it to 2-1 on a run-scoring single by Aramis Ramirez in the third.

St. Louis pushed the lead to 4-1 in the fourth on successive singles by Jhonny Peralta, Jon Jay and Molina. Matt Carpenter doubled in Molina with two outs.

The Cardinals had 10 hits and went 4 for 11 with runners in scoring position after stranding an NL-high 50 runners over their first six games.

Trainer's room

Brewers: Braun started for the sixth time this season despite a sore rib cage that caused him to miss two starts last week. ... RHP Jim Henderson remains on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation.

Cardinals: LHP Jaime Garcia threw another side session at extended spring training on Wednesday. He is expected to throw batting practice on Friday.

Up next

Brewers: RHP Mike Fiers (0-1, 9.00) will make his second start of the year in the series finale today at 12:45 p.m. He is 2-1 with a 1.30 ERA in six career starts against the Cardinals.

Cardinals: RHP John Lackey (0-0, 6.00) will make his second start of the season today. He is nine strikeouts shy of 1,800 for his career.