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Cardinals get offense going but can't overcome Brewers

MILWAUKEE • Carlos Martinez and Kevin Siegrist, who probably ranked in the top three of most reliable Cardinals pitchers last year, along with Seung Hwan Oh, probably are among the top three disappointments early this season.

Martinez (0-3), failing to win for the fourth straight time, hasn’t made it past the sixth inning in his last three starts after a brilliant opening-night outing against Chicago. He allowed a 458-foot, three-run shot to Milwaukee’s Travis Shaw in the first inning, retired 11 in a row and then, after a single to Jonathan Villar in the fifth, surrendered a two-run blast to Eric Thames, the Brewers’ new Ruthian figure who has eight home runs and a .