GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: NL: ST LOUIS (73-82) at MILWAUKEE (79-76)

Fielder, Braun homer as Brewers rout Wainwright, Cards

<h3>MILWAUKEE 13, ST. LOUIS 5</h3>MILWAUKEE (Ticker) -- The Milwaukee Brewers won't be going downwithout a last word.


In a game that featured three Milwaukee ejections, the Brewersdid plenty of talking with their bats as well in a 13-5 victoryover the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday.


With the win, the Brewers (80-76) moved within three games ofthe idle Chicago Cubs (83-73), whose magic number remained atfour for clinching the National League Central with six gamesremaining.


Prince Fielder's majestic 458-foot home run - tied for thesixth-longest in Miller Park history - brought home three runsand gave the Brewers a 4-0 lead in the first inning againstCardinals starter Adam Wainwright (13-12).


"We've got to win every game, honestly," Fielder said. "Then youcan go home without wanting to kill yourself, making sure yougave it your all and did your best."


Fielder finished a triple shy of the cycle and Ryan Braun addeda two-run homer in the sixth as part of a three-run rally.Braun finished with three RBI and three runs scored and RickieWeeks was on base five times and scored three runs.

"How about those two kids, Fielder and Braun?" manager Ned Yostsaid. "They've got to be two of the best run producers inbaseball, and they're both so young."


With 81 home runs, the pair now has more blasts than any twoteammates in Milwaukee history, eclipsing the 79 set on twoprevious occasions.


Milwaukee catcher Damian Miller's bases-clearing double was thecrown jewel of a five-run rally in the fifth that broke the gameopen.


"You have a long season and you're going to deal with a lot ofstuff," Miller said. "Just the character of the guys on theteam, how guys can brush it off and give them tomorrow, that'swhat's impressive to me. Guys at such a young age being able todo that ... it's been fun to watch."


Miller was watching the latter third of the game from theclubhouse after earning one of three ejections handed out byhome plate umpire Phil Cuzzi, who tossed hitting coach JimSkaalen and the Brewers catcher after a called third strike inthe sixth.


"It's all forgotten now," said Miller, who trotted out in fullcatcher's gear in the top of the seventh before getting theheave-ho, a moment he termed "premeditated frustration."

"I've forgotten about the whole thing, and I'm sure I'm not thefirst guy Phil Cuzzi has thrown out of the game."


He also wasn't the last. Yost was later ejected for the secondconsecutive game after Cuzzi ruled Rick Ankiel safe at homeplate on a close play in the seventh.


Ankiel scored on Ryan Ludwick's two-run single, part of athree-run seventh that chased Milwaukee starter Dave Bush(14-11), who allowed five runs - three earned - on nine hits in6 2/3 frames.


"The offense gave me everything I could ask for tonight," Bushsaid. "We don't have a whole lot of room for error and have towin just about every game."


Wainwright was victimized by porous defense, with three St.Louis errors leading to five unearned runs. The righthanderallowed four earned runs on eight hits in five innings withseven strikeouts.


"He wasn't quite sharp enough in the first inning and theyjumped him," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said.

Gary Bennett, who figures to see increased playing time withword that knee surgery had ended starting backstop YadierMolina's season, hit a two-run home run against Bush in thefourth.