ST. LOUIS — Keon Broxton and Eric Thames homered to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.
Thames' 18th of the season off Cardinals closer Seung Hwan Oh (1-3) in the ninth barely skimmed over the right field wall and broke a 4-4 tie as the Brewers won their second straight series against the Cardinals. Milwaukee had gone 0-15-2 in the previous 17 series.
Broxton drilled the first pitch he saw 489 feet into the left field seats to tie the game 2-2 in the second. It is the longest home run in Busch Stadium III's history and the second-longest this season in the major leagues.
Domingo Santana's single scored Eric Sogard to give the Brewers a 3-2 lead in the third.
For the second consecutive start, Brewers right-hander Zach Davies gave up four runs in five innings. He gave up nine hits and struck out one.
Oliver Drake earned his first career save for the Brewers. Josh Hader and Carlos Torres (3-4) combined for three scoreless innings of relief.
Stephen Piscotty and Aledmys Diaz had RBI singles to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead in the first.
Dexter Fowler tied it for the Cardinals with a solo home run in the third and again with a single scoring Matt Carpenter in the fifth.
Carpenter doubled in the first and fifth, scoring both times. He has doubled in six straight games.
Michael Wacha struggled again, giving up four runs in four innings. It is the fourth of his last five starts that the Cardinals right-hander failed to go five innings.
NATIONALS 8, METS 3 Bryce Harper hit a home run so hard that it twice sailed over the head of Mets right fielder Jay Bruce, propelling
Thursday’s games
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Washington 8, New York Mets 3 Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 4 San Francisco at Colorado, (n)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Minnesota 6, Seattle 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Baltimore 2 Detroit 5, Tampa Bay 3 New York Yankees at Oakland, (n) Kansas City at LA Angels, (n)
INTERLEAGUE
Cleveland 12, LA Dodgers 5 Philadelphia 1, Boston 0
Gio Gonzalez and the Washington Nationals past New York. Harper lined a solo drive in the first inning that sailed about a dozen rows deep into the seats. The ball ricocheted out of the stands in a hurry and Bruce couldn’t catch the rebound, the carom flying far onto the grass.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
TIGERS 5, RAYS 3 Miguel Cabrera hit a tworun homer in the ninth off Tommy Hunter (0-2). Justin Wilson (3-2) won with a scoreless inning. Justin Verlander pitched seven innings, allowing two runs, six hits and five walks. WHITE SOX 5, ORIOLES 2 Rookie Matt Davidson homered for the fourth straight game, then doubled and scored in a four-run sixth to send Baltimore to its seventh loss in eight games. Davidson hit a solo homer in the fourth, his 14th home run this season.
INTERLEAGUE
PHILLIES 1, RED SOX 0 Pinch-hitter Ty Kelly doubled home the only run in the eighth inning of a pitchers’ duel between Philadelphia’s Nick Pivetta and Boston’s Chris Sale to lead the Phillies to a victory over the Red Sox. Sale (8-3) was cruising until a one-out single by Andrew Knapp set the stage for Kelly’s game-winning hit that ended the Phillies’ eight-game losing streak. Kelly lined a slider into the left-field corner. Andrew Benintendi’s throw sailed over the cutoff man and was a tad late, allowing Knapp to score from first for the only run of the game. INDIANS 12, DODGERS 5 Pinch-hitter Lonnie Chisenhall connected for a three-run homer and had five RBIs, stopping the Dodgers’ sixgame winning streak. Chisenhall’s 415-foot drive in fifth inning on the second pitch from Ross Stripling opened up a four-run lead.