The St. Louis Cardinals will turn to veteran right-hander Miles Mikolas in a bid to snap a seven-game losing streak Sunday afternoon when they close a four-game series against the host Milwaukee Brewers.
Mikolas (2-5, 6.43 ERA) has lost four of his last five starts.
Right-hander Bryse Wilson (2-1, 2.40 ERA), who began the season in the bullpen, will make his fifth start for Milwaukee.
The Brewers rallied for a 5-3 victory on Saturday when Rhys Hoskins hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning off reliever Andrew Kittredge.
The Cardinals threatened in the ninth with consecutive two-out singles by Lars Nootbaar and Paul Goldschmidt before Nolan Arenado flied out to right field. The single by Goldschmidt, who struck out in his first four at-bats, snapped a career-worst 0-for-32 slump.
St. Louis, which scored just three runs in dropping the first two games of the series, outhit Milwaukee 12-6 on Saturday.
“The at-bats were way better,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “We got beat tonight; we didn’t beat ourselves.”
Milwaukee has won eight straight games against St. Louis, including all six this season and 11 of the last 12 overall. The Cardinals are in last place in the National League Central, nine games behind the front-running Brewers.
