Brewers manager Ned Yost was keeping the faith Friday afternoon, saying that one win could erase all the doom and gloom surrounding a team that had lost its last six games.
How about one swing?

Rickie Weeks ripped a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the Brewers a 4-3 win over the Cardinals and snapping the team's six-game losing streak in front of 42,705 fans at Miller Park.

Cardinals closer Jason Isringhausen (1-4) retired the first two Brewers hitters in the ninth on two pitches, though Bill Hall hit a long line drive to center field. Shortstop J.J. Hardy and pinch-hitter Gabe Kapler followed with two-out singles and Jason Kendall walked to load the bases for Weeks, who pulled a 1-and-0 pitch to left field to win the game.

Brian Shouse (3-0) worked a scoreless eighth inning for the win, and along with two innings from David Riske extended Brewers relievers' scoreless streak to 11 innings. Isringhausen suffered his fifth blown save.

Before the ninth, the story was once again Milwaukee's sluggish offense, which was 1-for-7 in the game with runners in scoring position and had missed a huge opportunity in the sixth, when it squandered a first-and-third, no-out situation in a 3-2 game.

Brewers starter Manny Parra surrendered a first-inning home run to Albert Pujols and two more runs in the second, when he hung a curveball to Cards pitcher Todd Wellemeyer and then walked the No. 9 hitter with the bases loaded for a 3-0 St. Louis lead.

The Brewers scored both of their runs in the fourth inning with some help. Ryan Braun reached second base on a throwing error by third baseman Brendan Ryan, one of three Cardinals errors, and scored on Corey Hart's RBI double. Hart took third on a groundout and scored on Wellemeyer's wild pitch, cutting the deficit to 3-2.