MILWAUKEE — For a team that admits it must play detailed-oriented and hiccup-free baseball to have a chance to win, the Cardinals proved that point Friday night.

They did not play that precision game.

And, as a result, they weren’t as close as the score wound indicate.

On their way to a seventh playoff berth in the past eight years, the Brewers did their part to clinch as early as Friday night with an 8-2 victory against the Cardinals. Milwaukee needed only one hit to turn the Cardinals’ third-inning quagmire into a four-run lead, and then stiff-armed the Cardinals from there. Christian Yelich added the exclamation in the seventh with a two-run homer off the scoreboard at American Family Field. The Cardinals (72-76) missed on their lone opportunity to stun the Brewers and could overcome

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