In St. Louis, the Brewers blew out the Cardinals, 10-0, to take Game 1 as Mike Caldwell pitched a three-hit complete game shutout. The Cardinals narrowly won Game 2 to even the series going to Milwaukee. The Cardinals won Game 3 by a 6-2 score to take a 2-1 series lead and regain the home field advantage. Then, the Brewers won Games 4 and 5 by two runs to be one win away from their first ever World Series title. When the series moved back to St. Louis, the Cardinals routed the Brewers by a 13-1 score to force a Game 7, with John Stuper pitching a complete game for the Cardinals. In Game 7, the Brewers led 3-1 going into the bottom of the sixth, until Brewers' manager Harvey Kuenn pulled starting pitcher Pete Vuckovich after the Cardinals got men on first and third bases with one out. This decision proved to be fatal for the Brewers, as the Cardinals scored three runs to take the lead, and then scored two more unanswered runs in the bottom of the eighth to secure the title.
