The Reds jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead in the first two innings and held on to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 14-11Te. It was the second series win for the 7-24 Reds. The completed a 4-2 homestand.
Both teams scored six runs in their last at bat. Milwaukee's ninth, featured a triple by Christian Yelich that gave him the cycle.
Tylers Naquin and Stephenson had extra base hits with the bases loaded. TJ Friedel opened the game with a single. Tommy Pham had a bad hop ground ball the skipped past Luis Urias at third base. Originally ruled a hit. It was later changed to an error. Stephenson, the designated hitter, hit a double to plate Friedl. Milwaukee starter Adrian Hauser, walked Colin Moran to load the bases. Naquin's triple put the Reds up 4-0.
Reds' starter Vladimire Gutierrez survived two doubles in the first inning. Kolten Wong hit a double to start the game. He was caught stealing third by Aramis Garcia after Willy Adames struck out. Christian Yellich hit a double but Gutierrez fanned reigning player of the week, Rowdy Tellez.
Friedl started the second inning rally with a two-strike bunt single. Brandon Drury and Pham walked. Mike Moustakas, who left seven runners on base, struck out. Stephenson's second double cleared the bases, giving him four RBI for the game.
Gutierrez had an easy second but Yellich hit a two-out three run home run the opposite way to left field. Lorenzon Cain singled and Jace Peterson walked. Gutierrez tried to escape again. He struck out Wong and got Adames with a week pop out to Moran at first. Yelich hit a 3-1 pitch out of the park, his fifth of the season.
Hunter Renfroe hit a towing drive just fair into the Brewers' bullpen for his seventh home run.
The Reds got that run back in the fifth after Alexis Diaz bailed out Gutierrez in the top of the frame. Gutierrez recorded his sixth strikeout, fanning Peterson. Wong worked a tough walk. Adames forced Wong at second base for the second out. Yelich singled for his third hit. David Bell brought in Diaz. He hit Tellez with his first pitch to load the bases. Diaz struck out Urias.
Moran started the bottom of the inning with a double. Naquin bunted him to third. Kyle Farmer delivered the eighth run with a fly to deep center.
Jeff Hoffman used the whole outfield in the seventh retiring the the first two batters with warning track fly balls. Renfroe hit his second home run of the game with two outs in the seventh off Hoffman. This one was a line drive blast to left field. His eighth home run gave him 16 career multi-homer games. It was the second time this season. Renfroe also threw out Friedl at second on a hit down the right field line in the sixth inning.
The Reds used the wildness of J.C. Mejia who was recalled on Monday to support a tired Brewer bullpen. Mejia walked Farmer, Friedl and Drury to load the bases with one out. Mejia got ahead of Pham 0-2 but Pham drilled a single to left to drive in two runs. Moustakas singled Drury home as Drury disregarded the stop sign by J.R House. Stephenson forced Pham at third but hustled down the line to avoid a double play. Moran rewarded the hustle with his fourth home run on the homestand off Luis Perdomo for a three-run blast.
Dauri Moreta came in to mop up in the ninth but was bombed. Peterson hit his second home run of the season. Wong singled. Pinch hitter Mike Brosseau hit a ball off the top of the wall that was called a home run after a review. Yelich hit a triple down the right field line that gave him the cycle. It was his third career cycle, all against the Reds. He had two in one week against Cincinnati in 2018. They were three weeks apart, One was in Cincinnati. One was in Milwaukee.
""I'd definitely rather win the game," Yelich said. "Weird things happen in baseball anytime you can hit for a cycle, it's pretty cool. I will try to enjoy it as much as possible. I was DHing so I was kind of joking around with guys on the bench. They said all you have to do is hit a triple now. Th theere's only one spot you can do it here and that's the right field corner. I wasn't trying to but I was ahead of a change up. Once I saw it bounce over his head, I knew I had it. It was just there. A lot of things kind of have to happen to hit the cycle. It is hard enough to get four hits in a major league game and to have the right kind, there's an element of luck. It is still pretty cool. They are rare so you have to enjoy them as much as possible. Once I saw it go that way as long as I didn't trip going around the bases, I knew I had it."
Bell had to bring in Joel Kuhnel to rescue Moreta. Tellez greeted Kuhnel with a run scoring single. Urias doubled to score Tellez from first base. Kuhnel struck out Renfroe for the first out. Omar Navarez doubled home Urias with the Brewers' 11th run. Kunel got ground outs from Cain and Peterson to finish the victory.
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