Crew stuns Cards with late rally for sweep after being no-hit for 7 frames 

MILWAUKEE -- Eight innings into the finale of a tense series against the division-rival Cardinals, Garrett Mitchell’s double finally gave the Brewers their first hit.

Then, they scored a run on Christian Yelich’s two-out single.

Then, they scored again when Cardinals shortstop Masyn Winn booted a ground ball, and came away with a most satisfying three-game sweep, capped by Wednesday’s 2-1 Brewers win in front of 30,391 fans at American Family Field who witnessed St. Louis starter Dustin May dominate for most of the afternoon.

The last time May pitched in this ballpark -- in 2021 -- he was a hotshot Dodgers prospect, and he blew out his right elbow requiring Tommy John surgery. Back with the Cardinals five years later, May needed only 82 pitches to navigate the first seven innings without allowing a hit. The Brewers’ only baserunners to that juncture were Jake Bauers, who was hit on the foot by a curveball in the second inning, and Sal Frelick, who drew another catcher’s interference call in the third. Neither moved beyond first base.

But Mitchell finally broke through with a double leading off the eighth, and Luis Rengifo’s bunt single suddenly knocked May out of the game in favor of left-hander JoJo Romero, who was one out away from escaping when Yelich grounded a single to center field to make it a 1-1 game.

The go-ahead run scored with some help from Winn, whose spectacular play to end the fifth inning had kept May’s no-hit bid intact. Jackson Chourio hit a grounder up the middle that should have ended the inning, but Winn booted it allowing Frelick to score the go-ahead run.

The rally secured the Brewers’ third series sweep in the month of May -- all against winning teams in the Yankees, Cubs and Cardinals.