Miles Mikolas carried a one-hitter into the seventh inning and Tommy Edman and Nolan Arenado each homered as the Cardinals rolled to a 10-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday.

St. Louis’ hitters made Mikolas’ job easier by scoring four runs in a first-inning rally that began with two outs and nobody on base.

Mikolas (1-0) struck out seven and allowed one run, three hits and one walk in 6 2/3 innings.

Milwaukee managed just six hits against the combination of Mikolas, Nick Wittgren and Andre Pallante.

Brewers starter Freddy Peralta (0-1) wasn’t nearly as effective.

After retiring his first two batters, Peralta allowed nine of the next 11 to reach on six hits, two walks and a hit batter. That allowed the Cardinals to build a 6-0 lead in the first two innings.

The Cardinals’ first-inning outburst started with Tyler O’Neill’s two-out double. After Peralta loaded the bases with walks to Arenado and Lars Nootbaar, Harrison Bader and Andrew Knizner delivered two-run singles.

Peralta hit Dylan Carlson with a pitch to start the second inning. Paul Goldschmidt doubled home Carlson and scored on an Arenado single to make it 6-0.

Peralta struck out four in three innings but allowed six earned runs, seven hits and two walks.

Edman hit a two-run shot off José Ureña in the fifth to make it 8-0.

The Brewers scored their lone run in the seventh when Omar Narváez greeted Wittgren with a two-out RBI single.

Arenado closed the scoring with a two-run shot off Brent Suter in the ninth.

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LHP Steven Matz (0-1, 21.00 ERA) starts for the Cardinals and RHP Adrian Houser (0-1, 4.91) pitches for the Brewers as this four-game series continues Saturday night. Game time is 6:10