Baker singles in 10th to give Cardinals 2nd straight extra-inning win over Brewers, 3-2

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Luken Baker singled home the go-ahead run with two outs in the 10th inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 3-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night.

The Cardinals won two of three from the NL Central-leading Brewers, with extra-inning victories each of the last two nights. St. Louis won 7-4 in 12 innings on Tuesday.

“That was a fun game,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “There was a lot of moving parts to that one. Both teams played well.”

Milwaukee went 0 for 15 with runners in scoring position.

“I guess this is a phase we’re going through,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. “A lot of it’s youth. There’s a lot of bright spots at the same time. Just very, very frustrating.”

St. Louis had a runner at third with two outs in the 10th when Joel Payamps (3-7) intentionally walked Nolan Arenado. Milner, who was promoted from Triple-A Nashville on Tuesday, came out of the bullpen to make his first major league appearance since Aug. 8.

Baker came in as a pinch-hitter, got ahead 3-1 in the count and sent a grounder up the middle to drive in Masyn Winn. Baker, who has spent most of this season in the minor leagues, has an RBI in each of his last six games.

“As far as the RBIs go, that's my job, and that's the ultimate goal, right?” Baker said. “You have to score runs to win games. ... The job is to score more than the other team, so the more I can drive runs in, the better.”

With usual closer Ryan Helsley unavailable one night after pitching two innings, Ryan Fernandez worked the 10th to earn his second save in four opportunities. Fernandez struck out two batters, intentionally walked Jackson Chourio to put the potential winning run on base and then struck out Rhys Hoskins to earn his second save in four opportunities.

“(Chourio's) a high-contact guy, he's having a good season,” Marmol said. “You look at his last 60 days, he's thumping. Hoskins has more strikeout in him. Fernandez has more ‘K’ in him. I'll take my shot."

Andrew Kittredge (3-4) got the win with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief.

The Cardinals took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a pair of bases-loaded walks from Colin Rea, and the score stayed that way until the Brewers scored single runs in the seventh and eighth.

Milwaukee’s Garrett Mitchell hit a leadoff triple in the seventh and scored when Joey Ortiz grounded out to third. That was the only run allowed by St. Louis’ Sonny Gray, who struck out seven and gave up four hits and one walk in seven innings.

JoJo Romero took over for Gray in the eighth, and Eric Haase sent the left-hander’s first pitch way over the wall in left center for his fourth homer of the season. Haase's tying, 438-foot blast marked the first time he’d gone deep since a two-homer game at Minnesota on July 21.

The Brewers nearly took the lead later in the inning.

Brice Turang doubled to left and advanced to third when Chourio grounded out. Romero then was removed in favor of Kittredge.

With the go-ahead run at third, Kittredge struck out pinch-hitter William Contreras, intentionally walked Willy Adames and struck out Mitchell.

The Cardinals pulled ahead early by capitalizing on Rea’s uncharacteristic control problems.

Rea hadn’t walked anybody in four straight starts and had issued just one walk the entire month of August, but he issued bases-loaded walks to Iván Herrera and Lars Nootbaar in the first inning.

The Cardinals did no more damage against Rea in his four-inning stint. Milwaukee’s DL Hall struck out six in four innings of scoreless relief.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: Off Thursday before beginning a three-game home series with the Seattle Mariners on Friday. The scheduled starting pitchers Friday are RHP Erick Fedde (8-8, 3.43) for the Cardinals and RHP Bryce Miller (10-8, 3.30) for the Mariners.

Brewers: Off Thursday before starting a three-game home series with the Colorado Rockies on Friday. RHP Frankie Montas (6-9. 4.70) pitches for the Brewers on Friday. The Rockies haven't announced a starter.

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Milwaukee Brewers' Eric Haase celebrates after hitting a home run in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

St. Louis Cardinals' José Fermín, left, high-fives Nolan Arenado (28) after Arenado scored on a bases-loaded walk in the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher DL Hall throws to first for the out on a bunt by St. Louis Cardinals' Michael Siani during the sixth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher DL Hall throws during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

Milwaukee Brewers' Jackson Chourio hits a double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Sonny Gray throws to first for the out on a bunt by Milwaukee Brewers' Garrett Mitchell during the second inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Sonny Gray throws during the second inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)

Instagram is making teen accounts mandatory for those under 18 as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives.

Beginning Tuesday in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia, anyone under under 18 who signs up for Instagram will be placed into teen accounts — which will be private by default — and those with existing accounts will be migrated over the next 60 days. Teens in the European Union will see their accounts adjusted later this year.

Meta acknowledges that teenagers may lie about their age and says it will require them to verify their ages in more instances, like if they try to create a new account with an adult birthday. The Menlo Park, California company also said it is building technology that proactively finds teen accounts that pretend to be grownups and automatically places them into the restricted teen accounts.

The teen accounts will be private by default. Private messages are restricted so teens can only receive them from people they follow or are already connected to. “Sensitive content,” such as videos of people fighting or those promoting cosmetic procedures, will be limited, Meta said. Teens will also get notifications if they are on Instagram for more than 60 minutes and a “sleep mode” will be enabled that turns off notifications and sends auto-replies to direct messages from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m.

While these settings will be turned on for all teens, 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to turn them off. Kids under 16 will need their parents' permission to do so.

“The three concerns we’re hearing from parents are that their teens are seeing content that they don’t want to see or that they’re getting contacted by people they don’t want to be contacted by or that they’re spending too much on the app,” said Naomi Gleit, head of product at Meta. “So teen accounts is really focused on addressing those three concerns.”

The announcement comes as the company faces lawsuits from dozens of U.S. states that accuse it of harming young people and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms.

In the past, Meta's efforts at addressing teen safety and mental health on its platforms have been met with criticism that the changes don't go far enough. For instance, while kids will get a notification when they've spent 60 minutes on the app, they will be able to bypass it and continue scrolling.

That's unless the child's parents turn on “parental supervision” mode, where parents can limit teens' time on Instagram to a specific amount of time, such as 15 minutes.

With the latest changes, Meta is giving parents more options to oversee their kids' accounts. Those under 16 will need a parent or guardian's permission to change their settings to less restrictive ones. They can do this by setting up “parental supervision” on their accounts and connecting them to a parent or guardian.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said last week that parents don't use the parental controls the company has introduced in recent years.

Gleit said she thinks teen accounts will create a “big incentive for parents and teens to set up parental supervision.”

“Parents will be able to see, via the family center, who is messaging their teen and hopefully have a conversation with their teen,” she said. “If there is bullying or harassment happening, parents will have visibility into who their teen’s following, who’s following their teen, who their teen has messaged in the past seven days and hopefully have some of these conversations and help them navigate these really difficult situations online.”

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said last year that tech companies put too much on parents when it comes to keeping children safe on social media.

“We’re asking parents to manage a technology that’s rapidly evolving that fundamentally changes how their kids think about themselves, how they build friendships, how they experience the world — and technology, by the way, that prior generations never had to manage,” Murthy said in May 2023.

File - The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, Oct. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

FILE - Students use their cellphones as they leave for the day the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts High School in downtown Los Angeles, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)