Overview
- Willson Contreras launched a solo homer in the top of the ninth to give St. Louis an 8–4 lead.
- William Contreras led off the bottom of the ninth with his sixth homer, matching his brother’s feat in the same inning.
- The pair became the second opposing siblings to homer in one inning in the modern era and the first since Rick and Wes Ferrell in 1933.
- Willson was hit by a Jose Quintana pitch in the fifth inning, prompting warnings to both benches before his eventual ninth-inning shot.
- The victory snapped the Cardinals’ six-game skid in a high-intensity National League Central contest against the Brewers.