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- Updated: June 1, 2016
MILWAUKEE — Zach Davies did what few others have this season, silencing the red-hot Cardinals bats over eight shutout innings as the Brewers won, 3-1, on Wednesday afternoon at Miller Park to salvage the series.
After Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia baffled the Brewers in a one-hit shutout on April 14, this time Milwaukee’s first four batters of the game reached base. Ryan Braun and Chris Carter drove in first-inning runs and Martin Maldonado clubbed his first home run of the season in support of Davies.
St. Louis scored 16 runs over the first two games of the series, but Davies responded by hurling the best start of his career, surrendering only three singles and retiring the last 14 batters he faced. He struck out the side in the eighth inning and exited to a standing ovation from the crowd. Davies struck out a career-high nine batters and yielded no walks in picking up his third win of the …
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