Brewers push HR button in fourth

The last team to hit five home runs in an inning was Minnesota in 1966.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers became the first major league team in 40 years to hit five home runs in one inning, and Damian Miller went 4-for-4 with three doubles and five RBIs in an 11-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday.
Dave Bush (2-1) pitched a four-hitter with a season-high nine strikeouts for his second career shutout and fourth complete game. Bill Hall, Miller, Brady Clark, J.J. Hardy and Prince Fielder all homered for Milwaukee in a seven-run fourth.
The last team to hit five homers in an inning was the Minnesota Twins on June 9, 1966, in the seventh against the Kansas City Athletics. Three other teams have accomplished the feat: the 1939 New York Giants, 1949 Philadelphia Phillies and 1961 San Francisco Giants -- all against Cincinnati as well.
Brandon Claussen (1-2) gave up nine runs and eight hits in three-plus innings. He failed to get an out in the fourth while giving up the first four Brewers home runs in the inning.
CINCINNATIMILWAUKEE
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LOB--Cincinnati 5, Milwaukee 6. 2B--Kearns (7), Hatteberg (4), Fielder (4), DMiller 3 (8). HR--BClark (1), Hardy (3), Fielder (3), BHall (3), DMiller (1). CS--Freel (3). SF--Weeks.
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Cincinnati
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Milwaukee
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Claussen pitched to 6 batters in the 4th. WP--Bush. Balk--Mercker. Umpires--Home, Larry Vanover; First, Greg Gibson; Second, Paul Nauert; Third, Charlie Reliford. T--2:35. A--35,768.
Cardinals 4, Cubs 1
ST. LOUIS -- Albert Pujols' two-run single with the bases loaded snapped a fifth-inning tie, helping St. Louis grind out a victory over Chicago.
Pujols has six RBIs in the first two games of the series. His two-out bouncer up the middle off Scott Williamson gave the Cardinals, swept earlier this month in Chicago, a chance to sweep the Cubs at home on Sunday.
The Cubs have lost two in a row for the first time this season while totaling four runs without Derrek Lee, out at least two months with two broken bones above his right wrist.
Sidney Ponson (2-0) worked through control problems for the second consecutive start, allowing one run on six hits and four walks in five innings.
A pair of two-out walks by Glendon Rusch (1-3) to eighth-place hitter So Taguchi and pinch-hitter John Rodriguez opened the door for the Cardinals' three-run fifth. David Eckstein followed with an RBI single.
CHICAGOST. LOUIS
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E--Isringhausen (1). DP--St. Louis 2. LOB--Chicago 7, St. Louis 7. 2B--YMolina (3). SB--Cedeno (1). S--Cedeno, Ponson.
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HBP--by Williamson (Taguchi). WP--Williamson. Umpires--Home, Alfonso Marquez; First, Larry Young; Second, Rob Drake; Third, Mike Everitt. T--2:54. A--41,424.
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