Hall homers in ninth, Brewers beat Cardinals 4-3

By R.B. FALLSTROM
AP Sports Writer
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Bill Hall homered to snap a late-inning tie for the second straight game and the Milwaukee Brewers also caught up with Kyle Lohse, beating the St. Louis Cardinals and their surprise ace 4-3 for their sixth straight victory Tuesday night.
Ryan Ludwick hit the longest home run at 3-year-old Busch Stadium for the Cardinals, who have lost two straight after winning five in a row. But Lohse tired in the last two innings of an eight-inning outing, squandering a three-run lead and missing a chance to win his 10th straight decision.
The Brewers bunched all but one of their seven hits off the right-hander in the seventh and eighth. They tied the game with two runs in the eighth on an RBI single by Rickie Weeks and a run-scoring single by J.J. Hardy in consecutive at-bats.
Hall, whose 10th inning homer off Ryan Franklin ignited a three-run rally in a 6-3 victory on Monday, hit his 14th homer with one in the top of the ninth off Kyle McClellan (2-5). The Brewers have homered in 18 straight games, the second-longest streak in franchise history, totaling 28 in that span.
Brian Shouse (4-1) needed only eight pitches to retire the side in order in the eighth and Salomon Torres got three outs for his 18th save in 22 chances.
Troy Glaus was 0-for-3 with a walk for St. Louis, ending a 10-game hitting streak in which he batted .525 (21-for-40) with five homers.
No Brewer reached base until Prince Fielder singled up the middle to start the fifth and Lohse had a season-best seven strikeouts.
Jeff Suppan allowed three runs and eight hits in seven innings after being activated from the 15-day disabled list with joint irritation in his elbow. He had been 4-0 with a 1.48 ERA against his old team since leaving for a free agent deal with the Brewers in 2007.

Brewers 4, Cardinals 3
MILWAUKEE .. @. ST. LOUIS ......@.
ab r h bi . ....... .@ab r h bi
Weeks 2b 4 1 1 1 Schmkr rf 5 0 1 0
Hardy ss 4 1 2 1 Ldwick lf 4 1 1 1
Braun lf 4 0 1 0 Pujols 1b 4 1 2 0
Fielder 1b 4 0 2 1 Glaus 3b 3 1 0 0
Kapler rf 4 0 0 0 Ankiel cf 4 0 1 1
BHall 3b 4 1 1 1 YMolna c 4 0 2 1
MCmrn cf 4 0 0 0 AKndy 2b 3 0 1 0
Kendall c 3 1 1 0 Villone p 0 0 0 0
Suppan p 2 0 0 0 McCllln p 0 0 0 0
Brnyan ph 1 0 0 0 Lohse p 2 0 0 0
Shouse p 0 0 0 0 Miles 2b 1 0 0 0
Torres p 0 0 0 0 Izturis ss 3 0 0 0
Mather ph 1 0 0 0
Totals ...@34.4.8.4 Totals ....@34.3.8.3
Milwaukee ... ... .....000 000 121--4
St. Louis ... ... ... ...201 000 000--3
DP--St. Louis 1. LOB--Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 7. 2B--Weeks (17), Hardy (23), Pujols (22), YMolina (14). HR--BHall (14), Ludwick (23). S--Lohse.
IP H R ER BB SO
..Milwaukee ... ... ... ... ... @... ...
Suppan 7 8 3 3 2 3
Shouse W,4-1 1 0 0 0 0 1
Torres S,18 1 0 0 0 0 0
..St. Louis ... ... ... ... ......@... ...
Lohse 8 7 3 3 0 7
Villone 1-3 0 0 0 0 1
McClellan L,2-5 2-3 1 1 1 0 1
WP--Suppan.
Umpires--Home, Joe West; First, Ed Rapuano; Second, Todd Tichenor; Third, C.B. Bucknor.
T--2:22. A--41,955 (43,975).
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