The Cardinals took a giant step toward punching their playoff ticket Sunday at Busch Stadium when they scored four runs in the third inning against Milwaukee to break a scoreless tie, fueled by Harrison Bader’s leadoff triple to right center off lefthander Brett Anderson. Bader. hitting eighth in the lineup, then blasted a 425-foot homer to left in the fourth to cancel a Milwaukee run in the top half as the Cardinals took a 5-1 lead
After Bader's triple, Tyler O’Neill, the No. 9 hitter, worked his way back from an 0-2 count to draw a walk and then Anderson departed with a blister on the index finger of his pitching hand, to be replaced by righthander Freddy Peralta.