The Milwaukee Brewers were able to gut out a 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday despite not getting a hit until the eighth inning. While Milwaukee's offense was struggling, the pitching staff was able to keep it in the game by making things difficult on the Cardinals as well.

Brewers manager Pat Murphy relied on four pictures to get Milwaukee to the finish line. He started the game with Chad Patrick, who pitched four innings and allowed five hits, one earned run and a walk while striking out four batters. After Patrick’s afternoon was over, Murphy went to his bullpen.

After Shane Drohan and Aaron Ashby did their parts, and the Brewers’ offense came alive in the eighth inning to take a 2-1 lead, it was up to Trevor Megill to close the door on the Cardinals.

Megill was successful through his one inning of work in which he struck out one batter and only allowed one hit, and he earned his sixth save of the season.

Afterward, he talked about the bullpen remaining ready.

“Just kind of coming into the day, knowing the plan with Chad, try to get three, four innings out of him,” Megill said. “That was a bullpen day, everybody be locked in. We're gonna do matchups. Everybody just take care of their part and just go after it today. So, just kind of everybody doing their part today.”

Megill also credited Cardinals right-hander Dustin May, who was nearing a no-hitter until Milwaukee finally broke through against him in the eighth.

“Yeah, yeah, I mean, hats off to Dustin,” Megill said. “I mean, he had a great game today, and hats off to our offense for not feeling defeated in the eighth and still grinding out at bats and getting a guy on and causing a little chaos and getting two runs there.

"So, it's just an absolute kind of demonstration of how baseball is playing out here a little bit,” Megill continued.

For Megill, dramatic changes in a game like Wednesday’s cannot affect his preparation leading up to taking the mound.

“Yeah, yeah, I mean it was tie or lead,” he said. “Just kind of know to just do your normal routine and just what happens, happens. You just kind of can't really get too up and down on the swing of the game there.”

Milwaukee is now 17-6 in the month of May, and Megill talked about what has been key to the team’s success.

“Yeah, just guys are out there grinding and getting it done,” Megill said. “And just, kind of, that Yankees series really helped swing things around a little bit. So, it's kind of the same script from last year a little bit.”

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