Braden Looper pitched around Prince Fielder and held the Milwaukee Brewers to three hits in five innings, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-1 victory tonight in St. Louis.

Skip Schumaker had two hits and two RBIs and Adam Kennedy was 3-for-4 with an RBI for the surprising Cardinals, who lead the NL Central Division with a 10-4 record.

Chris Duncan also had an RBI and Kennedy added a heads-up baserunning play, going from first to third on a groundout and then scoring an insurance run in the seventh.