MILWAUKEE — By the time he ran his own personal scoreless inning streak to 24 innings, Kwang Hyun Kim had also helped keep the Milwaukee Brewers searching, groping, seeking a run of any type for the first time in 21 innings.
With baseball's extra-inning booster, they got two in the eighth.
That was enough to upend the Cardinals, take Game 1, and spoil the lefty's brilliant return to the rotation.
Keston Hiura's sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the eighth inning brought up Avisail Garcia to send the Brewers to a 2-1 victory in the first half of a doubleheader Monday night at Miller Park.