MILWAUKEE -- Wily Peralta is making the most of his second chance with the Milwaukee Brewers after early season struggles led to a demotion to the minors.Peralta turned in his finest performance this year, but the Brewers lost to the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 in 10 innings on Tuesday night.Peralta gave up three hits and one run in seven innings, walking one and striking out a season-high 10. It marked the second time in his career that he reached double digits in strikeouts and lowered his ERA to 3.00 in five starts since returning from Triple-A Colorado Springs on Aug. 8.When youre throwing the ball good, your confidence is always going to be high, Peralta said. Since Ive come back, Ive been able to execute the pitches when I want to.Peralta had not gone more than six innings in a game this season. He retired the first nine batters before surrendering a single to Matt Carpenter, who led off the fourth.This is his best start of the year, for sure, Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said. The slider and the fastball were both equally good. Hes really strung together a bunch of good starts since hes been back.Peraltas outing caught the eye of St. Louis manager Mike Matheny.Thats the best weve seen him. He had a very heavy fastball and his slider was disappearing, Matheny said. There were a lot of swings and misses.Zach Duke stranded the bases loaded with a strikeout in the 10th inning after Randal Grichuk hit an RBI single in the top half of the inning, lifting St. Louis to victory.Seung Hwan Oh (4-2) pitched out of a jam in the ninth to get the win. Duke got his first save with the Cardinals by entering to strike out pinch-hitter Manny Pina after Matt Bowman walked three batters.Peralta and St. Louis Adam Wainwright dueled for seven innings, leaving a 1-1 game for the bullpens.Neither team had a hit until the fourth and neither scored until the sixth.St. Louis Jedd Gyorko broke the scoreless tie with a two-out home run in the sixth.Martin Maldonados run-scoring double tied it in the bottom of the inning.Wainwright retired the first nine batters until Jonathan Villar singled leading off the fourth. Wainwright gave up three hits and one run in seven innings. He struck out seven and didnt walk a batter.The Brewers put two runners on in the ninth, but Oh struck out Chris Carter to end the threat. Milwaukee has lost six straight, all at home.TRAINERS ROOMBrewers: INF Will Middlebrooks (lower leg strain) was activated from the disabled list and outrighted to Triple-A. Middlebrooks can refuse the assignment and become a free agent. 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Westbrook has missed 27 games since having a procedure on Dec. 27 to deal with swelling in his injured right knee — the third operation on the knee in nine months.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- One day after his father was buried in San Francisco 49ers gear out of devotion to his son, coach Chip Kelly invoked a lesson in loyalty from his dad in explaining why he didnt leave for the head-coaching job at the University of Oregon.I think with all those questions, and hopefully this is the end of it for me, is that I will never leave my job for another job while a season is going on, Kelly said. I dont think thats fair. I didnt do it when I was in college. I never talked to anybody in the National Football League until after our bowl game was over.I think in the NFL they have a great rule; youre not allowed to leave your job. If youre in the playoffs you cant go until your season is done. Its tough with the cycle that goes on in college. So, when Ive said that Im not going back to college, theres never going to be an opportunity for me to go back to college, because I have a job. I will not leave a team with three games to go because I got a bigger, better deal somewhere. Thats not the way Im wired and thats not what I would ever do.The way Kelly is wired is a reflection of E. Paul Kelly, his 87-year old father who died Friday night and was laid to rest in Portland, Maine, on Tuesday afternoon.Thats one thing I did learn from my dad, Kelly said. They (the 49ers) made a commitment to me. I made a commitment to them. Im not searching around and looking for other jobs while I have a job. I have a job to take care of, and I would be disingenuous and wouldnt be loyal to the players I coach, and those are the most important people that I deal with on a daily basis. I talk to them about making sacrifices all the time and being all-in and doing all that, and then Im looking to try to go find a job while all this is going on?I will never leave my job. I never have in the past and Im not going to leave my job if I still have games to coach. Thats what my deal is. I have a commitment. I learned that from my father. We can talk about my dad. I made a commitment to -- whether it was a university I was at, I made a commitment to a football team that I was at, and I just wont do that.Despite rampant speculation to the contrary, Kelly insisted for the better part of the past two months that he didnt have any interest in returning to Eugene to coach the Ducks despite his past success there and the Niners current struggles.ddddddddddddSince the 49ers are 1-11, amid an 11-game losing streak, Kelly would have had reason to depart for a better situation. But he made it clear Wednesday that he had no interest in following in the footsteps of former Atlanta Falcons coach Bobby Petrino, who left for Arkansas with three games to go in the 2007 season.Before Wednesday, Kelly had mostly stuck to simple a no when asked about his interest in Oregon or any other coaching vacancy, but he had never so forcefully and thoroughly explained why.After Oregon on Wednesday morning?tabbed South Florida coach Willie Taggart to replace Mark Helfrich, Kelly was compelled to go in-depth about how he disagrees with the idea of abandoning a team in the middle of the season for another job.I could never look (safety) Antoine Bethea or (tackle) Joe Staley in the face again and talk to them about commitment, and then if I was the guy that had a job that was offered that I thought was better than the one I had and I took off on them with three games to go, thats just not the way Im wired, Kelly said. I think some guys do it. I would never do it.I dont know why college questions ever come up with me because I would never leave my players before the season ended, and thats what Ive said all along and thats the way Ill always be. So if that precludes me from ever being involved in a college job, then that precludes me from ever being involved in a college job. So hopefully you guys dont ever have to ask that question again.Kelly returned to the Bay Area on Tuesday night after attending his fathers funeral. His players greeted him warmly?Wednesday. Kelly stopped to give a few players a hug as he walked on the field for practice.Minutes earlier, Kelly shared fond memories of his father, providing a rare glimpse into a private life he has doggedly protected.My dad is loyal now, Kelly said. He knows where his son was. So he actually got buried in 49ers gear. He did not want to wear a suit in the coffin. He wore a suit for his whole career as a trial lawyer, but he wanted to wear a 49ers sweatsuit when he passed away. ' ' '