Davies dynamite in career-best performance

MILWAUKEE — Arguably the best starting pitching performance of the season for the Brewers came against the top offense in the National League.

Zach Davies pitched eight scoreless innings against the Cardinals in Milwaukee’s 3-1 win on Wednesday at Miller Park, giving up three singles and not allowing a runner to get past first base.

The Cardinals came into the game having scored 16 runs in the first two games of the series and an NL-best 292 on the season. For nearly the entirety of Wednesday’s series finale, however, they could not touch Davies.

“I think the game said it all,” Brewers catcher Martin Maldonado said. “You hold that lineup to only three hits — he was pretty good.”

Davies struck out a career-high nine batters without walking a single Redbird, improving to 24 strikeouts and two walks over his last four starts. He retired the last 14 batters he faced, punching out the side and exiting to a standing ovation in the eighth inning.

“It was just being able to find the bottom of the zone and just being able to command the ball a lot better today, making them put the ball in play early and getting ahead of guys,” Davies …

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