Jay Bruce Has a Career Inning As The Reds Drain the Brewers

Jay Bruce and the Reds had a very good second inning.

Bruce led it off with a home run off Hiram Burgos and his teammates batted around while scoring five runs as the Reds drained every drop from the Brewers in a 13-7 win.

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The next inning was even better for Bruce.  This time he settled for two doubles, the first of which led off the third.  The second drove in Joey Votto for his second RBI of the game. It was the seventh run of the inning.

Bruce improved his average to .258 and increased his RBI total to 20.  It was the first time a Reds' batter had two hits in an inning since Drew Stubbs did it on April 25, 2011 at Milwaukee and the first to hit two doubles in an inning since Sean Casey did it on August 7, 1998 against Milwaukee.

Mat Latos was better at the plate than on the mound.  He hit two singles and drove in two runs but had his worst pitching performance of the season.

Latos gave up seven runs, six earned on nine hits and three walks in six innings.  His earned run averaged ballooned from 2.23 at game time to 3.04 at game's end.  The Reds' starters have now gone nine games without a quality start.  The good news for Latos that in his worst outing of the year, he picked up a win in his fourth consecutive start.

The Reds offense took advantage of young Hiram Burgos, who was placed in the starting rotation to give struggling Marco Estrada an extra day to iron out his problems.  A short outing of four innings by Yovanni Gallardo on Friday, causing the young pitcher to take a beating to save the bullpen.

The Reds banged out 14 hits in getting a win that allowed manager Dusty Baker to tie Fred Clarke with 1,602 wins on the all-time manager's win list.

Votto had two hits. Todd Frazier improved to .244 on the season with two hits. Xavier Paul had two hits.  Devin Mesoraco and Latos had two hits.