Brewers Late Rally Downs Reds

Tanner Roark's first start for the Red was a rocky one.  Roark walked the first batter he faced, Lorenzo Cain on four pitches.  It was an inning, he'd like to forget against the Milwaukee Brewers.

He struck out the red hot Christian Yelich, who has homered in each of the Brewers first four games.  Ryan Braun followed with a double.  Travis Shaw walked to load the bases.  Jesus Aguilar singled to score two runs.  Mike Moustakas doubled in a run and the Brewers jumped to a 3-0 lead.  David Bell ordered Orlando Arcia walked to face Brewers' starting pitcher Zach Davies, who popped out to Joey Votto at first.

Tanner got better and matched Davies over the next three plus innings but the Brewers scored a run late to win 4-3.

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"I just trusted my stuff.  Starting pitchers, it's their job to stay out there as long as they can," Roark said.  "There are going to be innings like that, you can't just throw in the towell, you've got to keep pitching."

The Reds stayed in the game because Roark didn't throw in the towel.

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"After an inning like that, what a great job to keep competing," Bell said.  "He did that to give us a shot to win.  Our bullpen came in and really gave us a chance to win.  Overall, it started out a little tough and then our pitching gave us a chance to win.   We lost the game tonight but the guys battled."

The Reds had three singles and Scott Schebler worked Davies for two walks through four scoreless innings, giving 14 consecutive scoreless innings since Thursday.

The Reds loaded the bases in the first on walks to Schebler and Yasiel Puig.  Eugenio Suarez singled sharply a step in front of  Yelich in right.  Schebler had to stop at third.  Davies struck out Matt Kemp and Jose Peraza to get out of the threat.   The Reds had two on with no outs in the third, a walk to Schebler and single by Votto.  Puig hit into a double play and Saurez popped up to stifle the opportunity.

Amir Garrett replaced Roark who kept the Reds in the game into the fifth inning.  Garrett struck out Shaw and Moustakas.  Then added a scoreless sixth as the Reds got back in the game.

Derek Dietrich was hit by a pitch to open the fifth.  He went to third on a ground ball to first by Schebler.  Votto walked.  Puig's first hit as a Red was a two-run double.

The Reds used four outfielders when Yasmani Grandal was up with the bases empty.  Grandal hit a liner past Votto but the shift prevented the ball from going into the corner for extra bases.   Grandal hit a gounder just inside the first base bag off Garrett in the sixth.  Arcia hit into a double play.  Garrett struck out Cain to complete his outing.

"You want to get outs with it but it is also about limiting the extra base," Bell said. "It is the guys who have the larger fly ball rates.  You can't use it against any guy, who has a larger fly ball rate, it is the guy who is pulling the ball.  With Grandal we didn't have anybody on the left side of the infield.  He rarely hits ground balls to the left side of the infield."

The Reds drew even in the bottom of the sixth.

Peraza and Barnhart singled off Alex Claudio to start the inning.  Pinch hitter Kyle Farmer hit into a force play, a ground ball to third.  Moustakas dropped the ball trying to make the relay.  Barnhart was ruled out with Peraza moving to third.  Dietrich hit a one hopper to Aguilar at first, who went for the inning ending double play but didn't get it as Peraza scored the tying run.

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Zach Duke and David Hernandez turned the tie game over to Raisel Iglesias, who retired the first two Brewers' batters in the ninth.  Yelich was 0-for-4 but doubled to left center.  Ryan Braun gave the Brewers the lead with a double down the left field line.

"We know how important Raisel is to our team," Bell said.  "We want him pitching in that situation.  We will continue to do that.  He went up against a really good hitter and then another one."

Milwaukee brought in Josh Hader.  Curt Casali, the Reds' last man off the bench, pinch hit to open the bottom of the ninth.  Casali doubled down the third base line.  Michael Lorenzen ran for Casali, the second time in three games, Lorenzen has been used to pinch run.  Schebler swung through three pitches.  Votto flied out deep to left, leaving the game in Puig's hands.  Puig fouled out to Grandal.