MILWAUKEE — Before the gifts that welcomed the Milwaukee Brewers back into the game came the array of misplays, missed chances, and mishaps that make the Cardinals vulnerable.

The Brewers scored seven runs in their final three at-bats to flip a game Saturday night that Cardinals once lead by five runs. Three of the five runs the Brewers scored in the eighth and ninth innings to tie the game reached base by walk or hit batter. The game ended with a 9-8 Brewers victory on Andruw Monasterio’s walk-off single in the 10th inning, but it was lost by the creeping erosion of the Cardinals’ play.

A runner not advanced.

A rally abandoned.

A play not made.

Another play not made.

Compounding mistakes proved costly.

“To completely simplify it, we don’t deserve to win that game or to even be in t

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