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Milwaukee Brewers at St. Louis Cardinals

Final
Busch Stadium III84°, Partly Cloudy20,399

Recap

Player of the gameRobert GasserMIL7.2ip 4h 2er 4k

Luis Lara was in the middle of a soccer match on PlayStation when his cell phone buzzed Monday night with a call from Triple-A manager Rick Sweet. It was the call the Top 100 prospect had been waiting for ever since he signed a seven-year, $31 million contract with the Brewers in early June. “I had a feeling that whenever he called, that was going to be it,” Lara said. He was right. The Brewers got 14 2/3 terrific innings from starters Jacob Misiorowski and Robert Gasser while winning both ends of Tuesday’s doubleheader against the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, taking the opening game, 4-3, before winning 10-2 in the nightcap. But they began the day by promoting Lara -- the 21-year-old, 5-foot-7 switch-hitter who is ranked as Milwaukee’s No. 4 prospect and No. 67 overall by MLB Pipeline. Lara wasted little time making an impact. After watching the Brewers’ Game 1 victory from the bench, he went to work in Game 2 as the starting center fielder and two-hole hitter in a victory that had his fingerprints all over. Lara collected his first hit, his first walk, his first run scored, his first RBIs and recorded the final out in a victory that pushed Milwaukee 25 games over .500 at 58-33. “A kid’s dream,” Lara called it. “It’s the moment you always dream of when you are a kid, and that moment arrived today.” Lara met that moment by shrugging off Cardinals right fielder Jordan Walker’s diving catch of his sinking liner in the third inning to deliver a two-out, two-run single in the fifth for his first Major League hit and RBIs. Then in the seventh, he worked a walk and flashed his superior speed while scoring his first big league run amid Milwaukee’s seven-run, game-breaking rally. “He looked great, man,” said Brewers manager Pat Murphy. “His ABs were great, all of them, except for the one off the \[position player\

How the bets landed

Moneyline favoriteSTL -112 · 51% to win
Upset
Run LineMIL -1.5
Covered
TotalO/U 8.5 · 12 scored
Over
Against the consensus line at the start, across 15 books

Team stats

11Hits4
1Home runs1
7Walks1
6Strikeouts5
0Stolen bases0
104Pitches thrown175
5Pitching strikeouts6

Box score

BattersABRHRBIHRBBSO
Cooper PrattSS4222010
Brice Turang2B5121000
Gary SanchezC3212021
Garrett MitchellPR-CF1100000
Jake BauersLF-RF2000021
Christian YelichDH5001002
Luis LaraCF-RF4112010
Andrew Vaughn1B4120011
Joey Ortiz3B5121101
Sal FrelickRF2000000
Jackson ChourioPH-LF3111000
Totals38101110176
PitchersIPHRERBBSOHR
Craig YohoP1.1000010
Robert GasserP7.2422141