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“font-size: 9pt;”>Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and Yuniesky Betancourt each drove in two runs in the 5th inning as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals in Game One of the National League Championship Series, 9-6.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>St. Louisan David Freese belted a three-run homer in the fourth to give the Cardinals a 4-2 lead at that point.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>Lance Berkman drove in Rafael Furcal in the 5th to make it 5-2 before things unraveled for Cards starter Jaime Garcia (0-1) in the fateful fifth.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>Braun doubled to cut the Brewer deficit to 5-4, his second extra base hit and third and fourth RBI’s of the game. Cards manager Tony La Russa left Garcia in to face the lefty-swinging Fielder, and on the first pitch Fielder smashed a line drive homer to right to put Milwaukee in front.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>Garcia was then replaced by righthander Octavio Dotel. La Russa went in the face of the stats that showed Dotel had retired the Braun-Fielder combination 12-out-of-16 times with 12 strikeouts.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>Once in the game, Dotel wasn’t able to stop the bleeding.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>Rickie Weeks hit a shot that went off Dotel. The righthander fielded it and threw wildly past Albert Pujols, allowing Weeks to reach second. Betancourt fell behind in the count 1-and-2 and then smashed a hanging breaking pitch out of the park for an 8-5 Brewers lead.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>The teams will meet again tonight (Mon., Oct. 10) at Miller Park for Game Two. Edwin Jackson will take on Shaun Marcum. The first pitch is set for 7:05 p.m.
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“font-size: 9pt;”>Information from KSDK.com contributed to this report.