MILWAUKEE — A decisive element of the Cardinals’ ongoing search for that reliever who could seize a middle inning and steal time for the offense to rally was, of course, banking on their offense to at some point conjure that rally.
They had not always been able to sync the two.
They did Wednesday, emphatically.
In his 25th appearance in the majors, Johan Oviedo, emerging on this trip as the answer to the Cardinals’ middle-relief riddle, earned his first big-league win. He had been 0-9. But the win only came when he froze the Brewers’ one-run lead in the fifth and Nolan Arenado reversed it in the sixth inning.