Capuano cruised through six innings on Sunday afternoon before he gave up back-to-back homers to allow the Marlins to tie the game in the seventh inning. Both teams scored one more run before Brian Shouse gave up a walk-off double to pinch-hitter Mike Jacobs in the bottom of the ninth that sent the Brewers to a 4-3 loss, their third straight against the Marlins.

"It was a nice piece of hitting, right down the third-base line," Brewers manager Ned Yost said of Jacobs' double. "They found a way to get a hit, score a big run, and we couldn't."

The loss dropped Milwaukee's road record to 23-42. It also continued the Brewers' drop in the NL Wild Card race, as they stayed 4 1/2 games behind the Reds, who lost in San Francisco on Sunday.

Up until the seventh inning, Capuano was having one of his best outings of the season. But a pair of solo blasts by Miguel Cabrera and Josh Willingham ruined the left-hander's day.

"I pitched well the whole game, but I just made those two mistakes at the end, so it leaves you feeling kind of sick about it," Capuano said.

Dan Uggla broke up the 2-2 tie when he hit an RBI single off Dan Kolb in the eighth inning, driving in Hanley Ramirez and giving the Marlins a 3-2 lead. David Bell's solo homer off Florida closer Joe Borowski tied the game in the top of the ninth.

At that point, the Brewers felt good about their chances. The Brewers are 7-1 in extra innings this season, and they were one out away from playing into the 10th. But with two outs in the ninth, Shouse walked Jeremy Hermida to put the winning run on base.

"I shouldn't have walked him," Shouse said. "He laid off of some good pitches. And that 3-2 pitch -- I tried to be too fine with and he laid off of it."

Shouse immediately paid for the mistake when Jacobs, pinch-hitting for Borowski, lined a double down the third-base line that Kevin Mench, who was shaded towards left-center field, couldn't get to in time

"It just hugged the wall, almost sliced it," Mench said. "As soon as I picked it up, he was touching the bag. I thought it would pick up speed, but it just stayed inside."

Before the pivotal seventh inning, Capuano had held the Marlins to just two hits, both by Willingham, with nine strikeouts. The no-decision was Capuano's third in his past four appearances.

The first home run Capuano gave up was on a 3-2 fastball to Cabrera, a pitch Capuano said he could live with. It was Willingham's blast -- on an 0-2 fastball down the middle -- that left Capuano upset.

"The pitch to Cabrera, I don't mind so much; I was 3-2 to him. That doesn't really get me as much as the pitch to Willingham," Capuano said. "There's a lot of things I could've done there, but I missed my spot. Especially with a guy 0-2, to throw one right down the middle is inexcusable."

Capuano, who was feeling the effects of the South Florida heat, said he had told Yost before the seventh that he had one more inning in him.

"That was a big inning there for me," Capuano said. "I was going to go in there and shut him down. For me to have a lapse of focus like that just really [ticks] me off. We're not going to hang our heads, but it was a tough loss."

Both teams remained scoreless over the first four innings until the Brewers finally got on the board in the fifth inning. Capuano led off the inning with a single and was followed by Gabe Gross, who hit a double to center field. Anibal Sanchez retired the next two batters before Bill Hall hit a two-run single off Sanchez that drove in Capuano and Gross.

The Brewers had an early opportunity to score in the second inning. Bell lined a double to center field and Mike Rivera walked to put two runners on with one out. Sanchez bore down, though, and picked up the final outs to get out of the inning unscathed.

"We battled all day, got great pitching from Cappy," Mench said. "We just couldn't get hits with guys on when we needed to."