Milwaukee Brewers right fielder Luis Lara, right, dives to catch a fly ball hit by the Cardinals' Iván Herrera as Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell watches in the third inning on Wednesday in St. Louis. (AP photo)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson and José Fermín homered, Michael McGreevy worked 6 1/3 strong innings and the St. Louis Cardinals snapped a seven-game losing streak against Milwaukee with a 5-1 win over the Brewers on Wednesday night.

NL Central-leading Milwaukee had its four-game winning streak halted.

McGreevy (4-7) struck out six and allowed five hits and one run on his 26th birthday.

After the Cardinals’ Masyn Winn hit a leadoff double in the first, Jordan Walker followed with an RBI double and Burleson drove in Walker with the third double of the inning.

Walker, who was selected to the All-Star Game for the first time on Saturday, was 2 for 4 with two runs scored.

Fermín hit a 404-foot solo homer to left-center in the fourth, extending the lead to 3-0. Burleson homered on a cutter from Jared Koenig that traveled an estimated 443 feet to right in the sixth.

The Brewers got one back on Cooper Pratt’s sacrifice fly in the seventh inning.

Kyle Harrison (8-2) allowed four hits and three runs in four innings, striking out two in the loss. Garrett Mitchell led the Brewers with a single and a double.

Woodruff update

Milwaukee starter Brandon Woodruff was diagnosed on Wednesday with a new injury to his troublesome right shoulder after exiting early from his most recent start and returning to the injured list.

The team said an MRI exam revealed a new injury to his anterior capsule, which was surgically repaired after the 2023 season. The Brewers planned to send Woodruff to surgeon Dr. Keith Meister for a second opinion after initially diagnosing him with inflammation. The 33-year-old experienced a drop in velocity on Saturday at Arizona and was removed during the fourth inning of his third start since coming off the injured list, where he’d spent nearly two months after minor surgery to remove a cyst.

Woodruff, who has a 2.98 ERA in nine starts this season, didn’t pitch at all in 2024. He returned midway through last season and fared well, before a lat muscle strain kept him from pitching in the playoffs.

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