ST. LOUIS -- At least the Milwaukee Brewers showed some fight.Stephen Piscottys second grand slam of the season propelled the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-8, rain-soaked, elongated victory Sunday and a weekend sweep, but the Brewers made the ending suspenseful.It was 8-2 and rain delays and everything, and we put the tying run 90 feet away and certainly had a chance to tie it up, manager Craig Counsell said. Its an easy game to kind of stop, but they dont make excuses for anything.Brandon Moss had a go-ahead double in a two-run fifth inning, and rookie Aledmys Diaz hit his 11th homer. The Cardinals lead the season series 7-2, with many of the games lopsided.Im sure were not the only team that struggles against the Cardinals, said Ryan Braun, who had a season-high four hits and made a nice catch at the left-field wall to rob Diaz of an extra-base hity. Theyre fundamentally sound. They dont make mistakes. They dont beat themselves.The Cardinals won the first two games of the series by a combined 10-1.We certainly havent done enough in all phases to beat them, Counsell said. Against any of these better teams, youve got to do a lot right and were just not doing enough against these guys.The series finale was looking like another comfortable victory for St. Louis, ahead by six in the sixth. The Brewers scored two in the seventh and four in the ninth to make it very interesting.It would have been an amazing win if we came all the way back, Braun said. But, obviously, its a good sign that we continue to fight and continue to battle to the end.The start was delayed by 1 hour, 20 minutes by rain, there was a 14-minute stoppage in the middle of the sixth and a third delay of 55 minutes in the top of the Brewers two-run seventh. Perhaps a few thousand of a crowd of 41,148 stuck it out for a game that lasted 3:48 and ended with puddles everywhere.Piscotty is 5 for 9 with 13 RBI with the bases loaded this season, including his first career slam on May 27 at Washington, and for his career hes 8 for 15 with 18 RBI. He connected on a full count against Blaine Boyer with two outs in the sixth for an 8-2 lead.Michael Wacha (5-7) allowed two runs and nine hits and escaped his fifth and final inning when Aaron Hill grounded into a double play on a 3-1 count with the bases loaded. Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit a two-run double in a four-run ninth and the tying and go-ahead runs were on base when Seung Hwan Oh struck out pinch-hitter Martin Maldonado for his second save.Chase Anderson (4-9) has lost three straight starts, allowing 15 earned runs in 10 2/3 innings and was pulled after his fifth walk, with one out in the fifth. Jacob Barnes gave up Moss RBI double for the lead and Jhonny Peraltas sacrifice fly.Ramon Flores two-run double put the Brewers ahead in the fourth.Milwaukee is 13-26 on the road with one series win and four splits in 13 attempts, and finished the first half 35-46.BREWERS MOVEAfter the game OF Keon Broxton was optioned to Triple-A Colorado Springs and INF Will Middlebrooks contract was selected from Colorado Springs. LHP Chris Capuano was transferred to the 60-day disabled list from the 15-day DL.SURPRISE STICKAnderson, who entered a career .077 hitter, singled in the second.ROSENTHALS WOESTrevor Rosenthal, who lost his closer job about a week ago, faced four hitters in the seventh, retired none of them and was charged with two runs.UP NEXTMilwaukee is 9-2 in starts by Junior Guerra (5-1) entering an 11:05 a.m. matchup against Max Scherzer (9-5, 3.30) at Washington. The right-hander will be facing the Nationals for the first time. DeSean Jackson Youth Jersey . 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Fears are growing that the NRLs crackdown on players making contact with referees could have an undue influence on the finals series.The one-match suspension of Tyson Frizell last week for making incidental contact with Chris James has all NRL players on edge just a month out from the finals.Canterbury prop David Klemmer was the first player to test the limits of referee contact when he successfully fought a two-match ban at the judiciary in March.But incidents of match-official contact and the suspensions handed out since have only served to muddy the waters on the controversial issue.Frizells contact did not appear as forceful as Klemmers touch on Ben Cummins in the round two win over Penrith in March.But St George Illawarra star Frizells ban came in the week after the NRL moved to redefine how intentional contact with a referee would constitute a ban.Jarryd Hayne become the latest player caught up in the issue when he brushed against referee Gavin Reynolds in Gold Coasts loss to the Warriors on Sunday in his first game in the NRL in almost two years.Hayne was not charged by the match review committee over the contact.Five months after he avoided a ban Klemmer, who received a contrary condduct ban for his remonstrations with Gerard Sutton last year, said on Monday he was still unsure if contact with a referee might or might not sideline him for a finals match.ddddddddddddDefinitely, it is semi-final time you dont want to be missing a week for that, he said at Bulldogs training at Belmore Sports Ground.They have to clarify that and bring in (a) more common sense (approach).If you push the referee sure it is one of those cases (for suspension).If you are telling a referee to buzz off in his face or using rude words and then pushing him out of they way ...But if it is just a case of `sorry sir just and you are getting out of the way that should be OK.I felt really sorry for Tyson Frizell.Klemmer said players were not acutely aware of the presence of referees during a game.One or our players was touched by the referee on the weekend, so what happens there? he said.Henry Perenara was standing right in the scrum (last weekend) and what are you supposed to do.He was right in the middle there and if you touch him you get suspended.You dont know what to do. 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