updated 10:39 p.m. ET Sept. 7, 2011
ST. LOUIS - Chris Carpenter pitched a four-hitter to record his first shutout in two years and Rafael Furcal hit a solo home run as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 2-0 on Wednesday night.
After losing the series opener on Monday, the Cardinals won the last two to move within 8? games of the first-place Brewers in the NL Central with 19 games to play. The Cardinals are 6? games behind Atlanta in the wild card race with the Braves coming to St. Louis on Friday to start a three-game series. St. Louis won five of its last six against Milwaukee to earn a season series split (9-9).
The benches and bullpens emptied in the top of the ninth after Carpenter (9-9) struck out Nyjer Morgan. The two had words and Morgan headed toward the mound before being restrained by teammate Prince Fielder. No punches were thrown and Morgan was ejected.
Carpenter was 1-2 with a 5.68 ERA in three previous starts this season against Milwaukee. He needed just 2 hours, 5 minutes to record his 14th shutout and first since he blanked the Brewers 3-0 exactly two years before in Milwaukee. He struck out five and walked two, one intentional.
The home run was the third for Furcal in the last seven days against Milwaukee. He went deep twice in Milwaukee last week when the Cardinals swept the Brewers.
Jon Jay went 3 for 4 for his fifth straight multihit game and he has 11 hits in his last 17 at-bats. Albert Pujols was 2 for 4 but grounded into his major league-leading 27th double play.
Milwaukee's Corey Hart went 0 for 4 with a strikeout and hit into a double play as his 18-game hitting streak was snapped.
Lance Berkman doubled to lead off the fourth against Milwaukee's Zach Greinke (14-6) and scored the game's first run on Yadier Molina's sacrifice fly one out later.
Furcal made it 2-0 by leading off the fifth with his seventh home run.
Greinke went seven innings and allowed two runs and eight hits with four strikeouts.
NOTES: The Brewers' Casey McGehee was ejected for arguing a called third strike that ended the fourth inning. McGehee slammed his bat on the ground in the direction of home plate umpire D.J. Reyburn. He was replaced in the lineup by Craig Counsell. ... The start was Carpenter's 30th, giving him eight career seasons with 30 or more. ... Milwaukee's Chris Narveson (10-6) will face the Phillies' Cole Hamels (13-7) in the opener of a four-game series at Miller Park on Thursday. St. Louis' Edwin Jackson (11-9) will oppose the Braves' Randall Delgado on Friday. ... A moment of silence was held before the game in honor of former St. Louis Blues Pavol Demitra and Igor Korolev, who were killed earlier Wednesday in a plane crash in Russia. ... Pujols' double play was the 152nd for the Cardinals.
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