Joe Trevino Drives In Two With His Bat And Save Two With His Glove Reds End Brewers' Spell

 

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Jose Trevino was catching his second extra-inning game in a row in a day game after a night game. He came up huge for the Reds driving in two runs and saving two more with his arm to allow the Reds to snap the Milwaukee Brewers winning streak at 14 games in a 3-2 win in 10 innings. 

"This was a big one all around for us after two heart breaking losses," Trevino said. "We were in those games. We were in a lot of games this homestand. It shows a lot about our team. We could have easily crumbled. There is something about this team that is really gritty."

Austin Hays drove in the game-winning run with a single down the third base line with the Brewers infield in.

TJ Friedl was the ghost runner. Spencer Steer bunted on Grant Anderson to put Friedl on third base with one out. Brewers' manager, Pat Murphy, ordered Elly De La Cruz and Will Benson walked to load the bases and create a force at home plate.

Hays ruined the strategy by rifling Anderson's first pitch past Anthony Siegler at third base 105.6 miles an hour. It was at least the fourth time this season, opposing managers walked batters ahead of him. This time he made them pay.

Jose Quintana of the Milwaukee Brewers and Reds' ace Andrew Abbott traded zeroes for six innings.

Abbott pitched a scoreless seventh.

The Reds broke through in the bottom of the inning. Austin Hays opened with a double. Noelvi Marte belted a single right to Brandon Lockridge in right. It was hit too hard for Hays to score. Trevino lined a ball to the top of the wall in right center but Lockridge caught it as Hays scored and Marte moved to second. 

Quintana was replaced by Tobias Myers, the only Brewers' pitcher that did not appear in the first two games. Ke'Bryan Hays flew out deep to center and Marte moved to third. Gavin Lux hit for Santiago Espinal.

Tony Santillan replaced Abbott, who pitched seven scoreless innings on four hits with not walks. Abbott struck out seven.

The cool, calm Abbott ended a threat in the fifth with two runners on. He turned a potential bases loading infield hit into the final out of the inning.

"We knew we couldn't give them pitches to hit really. We tried to keep pitches off the barrel of the bat," Abbott said. "I tried to keep the leadoff hitter off base as much as I could."

"I knew the runner was pretty fast. I took a peek when I was running down the line. I thought it might roll foul but I took a chance to get him out right there. I didn't think too much about it," Abbott said.

Santillan walked pinch hitter Tyler Black with one out. Trevino threw Black out stealing with pinch hitter Brice Turang batting. Santillan struck him out looking on a 3-2 pitch.

Emilio Pagan has 25 saves now in 30 chances but couldn't close this one out. He walked Siegler to start the ninth. One out later the William Contreras extended his hitting streak to eight games with his 13th home run of the season.

"I'm going to have to sit down with Emilio. He's done everything we've asked of him and more," Francona said. "I think I've used him too much and that's on me. I have to find a way to lessen his work load."

It appeared the Brewers were about to record another late inning, come-from-behind win by taking a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the ninth.

Tobias Myers relieved Quintana and was in line for the win but by using pinch hitters to get back in the game Murphy weakened his defense with Siegler at third and Brice Turang, a second baseman at shortstop. 

Will Benson recalled this morning when Jake Fraley was designated for assignment hit a ground ball to short that Turang bobbled and allowed Benson to reach base. Hays flied out. Murphy brought in Anderson. Noelvi Marte's second hit of the day put runners on the corner with one out. Trevino lined a single over second base to tie the game and send Marte to third. Hayes struck out looking but Matt McLain walked to load the bases. Friedl popped out to end the inning.

Graham Ashcraft entered in the 10th. Andrew Vaughn was the ghost runner. Blake Perkins bunted but Trevino pounced and Hayes retreated to put the tag on Vaughn. Ashcraft retired Danny Janson and Black to keep the tie.

Catchers rarely catch a night game and then a day game. It was a necessity with Tyler Stephenson dealing with a bad thumb on his glove hand.

 

Wade Miley Has Another Setback It Could Be His Last

 

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The Reds pulled left handed pitcher Wade Miley from his rehab assignment retroactive to August 16 with a strained left flexor.

Miley made two starts for the Reds this season and one relief appearance. He allowed four runs in his two-inning stint against the Milwaukee Brewers on June 4. His two starts were better. The 38-year old pitched five innings in Cleveland and was the winning pitcher in the Reds 7-4 win on June 9. He pitched five innings against the Detroit Tigers, allowing two-runs but did not figure into the decision in a 7-4 Reds win.

The native of Hammond, Louisiana went back on the 60-day injured list on June 20 with the left flexor strain.

This could be the end of the road for Miley, who has expressed interest in a position as a pitching coach somewhere.

He was limited to two appearances for the Milwaukee Brewers last season after starting 23 games for them in 2023 with a 9-4 record and a 3.14 ERA.

Miley started the 2022 season with the Chicago Cubs a month after opening day. He was shut down from June 10 to September 6 that season. The last two and a half seasons he was limited to five appearances, four starts the last two seasons.

He pitched 1 ⅔ innings in Chattanooga on Friday August 15 and was scheduled to make another start for Louisville on Tuesday August 19. 

At the end of his pitching career, Miley completed 15 big league seasons with 320 appearances and 312 starts for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers (two stints), Houston Astros, Reds (two stints), and Chicago Cubs.

Miley won 109 games, including a no-hitter against Cleveland for the Reds in 2021. He had a career 4.09 ERA with two shutouts. He struck out 1,368 and walked 611, a 2.24 strikeout to walk ratio. He allowed 198 home runs. He was an All-Star for the Diamondbacks in 2012.

With the Reds, Miley is 13-10 with a 3.76 ERA in 37 games, 34 starts. He struck out 144 and walked 65 with a 1.178 WHIP.

Brewers Speed And Aggression Force Reds Into Mistakes To Continue Their Streak

 

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Andruw Monasterio's pinch hit, three-run home run off Joe La Sorsa in the 11th inning gave the Milwaukee Brewers their 14th straight win, a 6-5 win in the second game of the series.

Emilio Pagan walked the first two batter in the top of the ninth. His escape was ruined when Elly De La Cruz threw a double play relay to the screen in front of the Reds dugout. It was his fourth blown save in 29 chances.

The Reds suffered through 12 straight 1-2-3 innings since scoring the teams last run in a 10-8 loss.

While the Reds were flailing at the plate the Brewers scored a tainted run against Zack Littell to take a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Caleb Durbin hit a two-out single. Brice Turang hit a line drive to right field, Noelvi Marte misplayed it into a run scoring double.

Brewer's starter, Quinn Preister,  allowed a base runner when TJ Friedl singled. Spencer Steer bounced into a double play. Elly De La Cruz and Miguel singled to put runners at first and third but Gavin Lux bounced out to the pitcher.

Ke'Bryan Hayes led off the sixth with a line drive home run to left. Steer hit his 15th home run to give the Reds a 2-1 lead.

Durbin led off the seventh with a double. Terry Francona summoned Graham Ashcraft, who struck out Turang. Tyler Black walked but Brandon Lockridge struck out and leadoff hitter Sal Frelick grounded out to second to end the threat. 

Littell made his first start for the Reds at Great American Ball Park (He started against the Reds here with Tampa Bay on July 25th).

He pitched into the seventh allowing the tainted run in the second on four hits, one walk and three strike outs. Littell left with the lead.

"I thought we did a really nice job competing through the whole game," Littell said. "It is definitely intense with what we're both trying to do. There is a lot of scoreboard watching but our job is to go out and play the game. I don't know that we have to be flawless. We have to be crisper on defense. We have to be better as a pitching staff, going out there attacking guys. Really all around everybody in here (clubhouse) would point to themselves and say that we've got to be better."

Tony Santillan took over for Ashcraft in the eighth. He walked rookie .209 hitter Anthony Siegler and William Contreras but after a visit by pitching coach Derek Johnson, Santillan struck out Christian Yelich, retired Andrew Vaughn on a fly to center. Durbin tried to bunt for a hit but Hayes threw him out easily at first base.

Closer Emilio Pagan started the ninth. He walked Turang and Black to start the inning. Lockridge missed two bunt attempts that popped out to Steer at first. Frelick forced Black at second and De La Cruz threw the relay away and Turang scored the tying run.

"We haven't played clean and that's one of the points we talked about before the series," Francona said. "We haven't played clean. We knew how fast they are and how aggressive they are and that has hurt us both nights."

Both teams scored in the 10th. Contreras singled in the automatic runner, Siegler.  Scott Barlow limited the damage to one run.

The Reds scored when Hayes doubled in Matt McLain the automatic runner. Trevor Megill struck out De La Cruz to send the game to the 11th.

Siegler was the automatic runner. Contreras singled. They were holding Siegler but Jake Fraley hyper-extended his knee. He was charged with the Reds third error as Siegler scored to take the lead in the 10th. 

Caleb Durbin was the automatic runner in the 11th. Turang was asked to sacrifice and beat the throw to put runners on first and third, setting up Monasterio's heroics.

De La Cruz was the automatic runner a deep fly from Andujar sent him to third. Santiago Espinal who was the emergency replacement for Fraley scored De La Cruz with a long fly. Marte hit a home run off Nick Mears with two outs, his ninth but McLain, who struck out four times flied out to the wall in center.

The Reds Defense Crumbles As The Team Fumbles A Rare Chance To Beat The Brewers

 

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The National League Central Division leading Milwaukee Brewers turned an 8-1 deficit into its 13th straight win, aided and abetted by the Reds. Nine unanswered runs produced a 10-8 win.

The streak matched their longest win streak which was accomplished at the very start of the 1987 season from April 6 thru the 20th.

The Reds scored seven runs in the second inning but shoddy fielding allowed the hard hitting Brewers to come back to tie the game.

The Brewers' bullpen retired the last 23 Reds batters after the Reds scored seven runs in the second inning.

"You can give their bullpen credit but not too much ,credit. We have to have better at bats against their bullpen too," Gavin Lux said.

William Contreras hit into a double play to end the first inning and hit into two grounders that should have been inning ending double plays but the Reds botched them.

The Reds' hit four singles in the first inning to score a run off the Brewers' rookie sensation, Jacob Misiorowski. The 23-year old righthander was in his first game back from a contusion to his left tibia. 

The Brewers' starter was on fumes as the Reds turned his wildness into seven runs after Christian Yelich tied the game with an opposite field home run off Nick Martinez, his 24th of the season.

Misiorowski hit Tyler Stephenson leading off the second. Ke'Bryan Hayes, TJ Friedl and Spencer Steer walked to plate one run. Elly De La Cruz greated DJ Hall with a two-run double. Miguel Andujar singled to score another run. Gavin Lux, Austin Hays and Noelvi Marte singled to score runs.

Martinez allowed singles by Brandon Lockridge and Sal Frelick to open the Brewers' third. Joey Ortiz popped up to second. Contreras grounded to De La Cruz at short. He tried to flip from his glove and only got the force when the slow footed catcher beat the relay. Yelich hit a flair to short left. De La Cruz and Hayes went for it and it tipped off Hayes glove to score one run. Andrew Vaughn hit his 14th home run to cut the Reds' lead to 8-5. Caleb Durbin and Brice Turang hit doubles to make it a two-run game.

"I lost my focus and started to leave the ball out over the plate," Martinez said. "When things happen you have to concentrate on executing the next pitch. I didn't do that."

The Brewers tied the game in the fourth off Brent Suter. Lockridge struck out but Frelick and Ortiz singled. Contreras hit a ground ball to Lux at second and for the second time Lux's error prevented the Reds from getting out of an inning with no runs. Yelich's third hit tied the game.

"We knew going into the game that you have to play a clean game against them," Lux said. "I make that play 99 out of 100 times but plays like that can't happen against a team like them."

Yelich hit another home run to the opposite field off Scott Barlow to give the Brewers, their first lead. It was his third multi-home run game of the year and 13th of his career. His fourth hit of the game was his 25th home run.

The Reds missed a golden opportunity to pass the New York Mets into the final wild card slot in the National League. The Seattle Mariners defeated the Mets 11-9 in Queens.

Ace Hunter Greene Returns To Harness The Phillies To Take The Series

 

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Hunter Greene made his first start since a groin injury put him on the sidelines after June 3 and pitched the Reds to a 8-0 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Newly acquired outfielder, Miguel Andujar hit his ninth home run of the season a grand slam to seal the Phillies fate

Greene handled the National League Eastern Division Phillies for five innings allowing two harmless singles.

Kyle Schwarber hit a two-out double in the sixth but Greene struck out Bryce Harper swinging on a 3-2 pitch.

Greene in his return pitched six scoreless innings with three hits, no walks and six strikeouts.

The Reds broke through in the fourth against Christopher Sanchez. Austin Hays drew a two-out walk and scored on a double by Noelvi Marte.

The Reds struck again in the sixth inning. Elly De La Cruz singled with one out. While De La Cruz was running, Hays rifled a double down the left field line scoring De La Cruz from first. Marte singled to score Hays. Left fielder Brandon Marsh throw was high and pitcher Sanchez throw went into left field to allow Marte to score.

Andujar's blow off Jordan Romano followed a walk to Ke'Bryan Hayes, a single by TJ Friedl and an infield single by De La Cruz.

Graham Ashcraft pitched a scoreless seventh. Scott Barlow and Sam Moll left two Phillies on base after a scoreless eighth.

Brady Singer Tames The Phillies Spencer Steer MIguel Andujar And Jose Trevino Back Him With Offense

 

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Brady Singer delivered six shutout innings and the Reds offense provided the support they denied Andrew Abbott in a 6-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Singer didn't allow a legitimate hit until two outs in the sixth inning. Backup catcher Rafael Marchan, a .186 hitter, lined a single to centerfield. Trea Turner doubled off the wall in right but Noelvi Marte got the rebound and held Marchan at third, while nearly catching Turner at second.

The only hit before Marchan's was a hop off the glove of Elly De La Cruz which was scored a hit but it was a controversial decision.

As if the prove the point, Matt McLain got in front of Kyle Schwarber's ground ball, knocked it down and threw Schwarber out to end the scoring threat.

The Reds got to Ranger Suarez in the third inning.

Jose Trevino singled to center with one out. Santiago Espinal singled. TJ Friedl hit a hard one hop ground ball to Bryson Stott at second who threw to Turner, who relayed to first. Friedl was ruled out but the call was overturned on appeal. Spencer Steer doubled to put the Reds up 2-0.  

Miguel Andujar lined his eighth home run of the season into the seats in left.

"Andujar continues to hit the bat really well," Terry Francona said. "He has over 1,000 OPS against left handers, I think its the best in baseball. We're really situated against both sides (lefties and righties)."

The Reds tacked on three more in the bottom of the sixth. Austin Hays walked to open the inning. McLain doubled one out later with Hays stopping at third. Trevino singled again to score two runs. Espinal singled and Friedl singled to load the bases. Phillies center fielder ran down Steer's bid for extra bases. Trevino scored on Steer's third RBI to make it a 6-0 game. De La Cruz backed Marsh against the wall in center to end the inning.

It started to rain on the Reds parade and the ground crew put the tarp on the field before the Phillies batted in the seventh.

After a 46 minute rain delay, Graham Ashcraft relieved Singer who pitched six innings allowing no runs on three hits, not walks and struck out seven.

"He did a really good job," Francona said. "Coming in he's had games where he had a really good two-seamer and a good slider. Tonight he had both. He pounded the strike zone early. That's what you have to do against that lineup."

Singer had a rough outing in Pittsburgh in which he allowed four runs in 3 2/3 innings. He walked four.

"I was pitching on both sides," Singer said. "I loved no walks. I was in the lane that I wanted to be at."

He improves to 10-9 on the season.

Brent Suter pitched a scoreless eighth. Sam Moll got two quick outs in the ninth before giving up Bryce Harper's harmless 18th home run before striking out Castellanos to end the game.

Kyle Schwarbers Dad To Throw Out The First Pitch At Great American Ball Park

 

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At 6:10 pm the former police chief of Middletown, Ohio will throw out the first pitch at Great American Ball Park on Tuesday. 

Greg Schwarber joined the Middletown police force in1980 his son Kyle was born. He retired in 2011 as the police chief. His wife Donna was a nurse. First responders are in their DNA. Now they are responding to the communities needs for team work to strengthen threw baseball.

Kyle just happens to be the Philadelphia Phillies designated hitter.

Schwarber loves to come home, not just to see his family but because he has tortured the Reds on the field in his 10-year career.

The left-hander who attended the University of Indiana, played 94 games against the Reds with 26 home runs the most against any of his opponents. Of those 26 he hit 13 at Great American Ball Park.

But this story goes beyond baseball. 

The retired police chief is working to bring baseball back to Middletown, a city that has fallen on hard times when Armco Steel, the lifeblood of the city, closed.

There was a knothole program that fell apart from lack of funding a decade ago. Greg Schwarber and Kyle's baseball coach, Jason Cabe will join him for the first pitch. Kyle is going to catch it.

"Him, Gordon Groh and Dan Culla have been working so hard to bring Little League back. It is good to see them being recognized for it," Kyle Schwarber said. "It will be fun to catch. I hope he doesn't bounce it."

After retiring from police work, Greg worked for Butler County Parks. 

"Four years ago we were approached about trying to start baseball up again in Middletown," Kyle said. "I had planned to do something like that when baseball was going to be done for me but if we were going to be involved in it we wanted to make sure it was done right. I said I have a guy for it and it was my dad."

They are not trying to find the next big leaguer. Baseball is an expensive sport and not every community can support it financially.

"I grew up with such great coaches too, Dan McCullough, Ron Groh. We have a lot of my teammates that I played with growing up helping out. Drew McCullough, Dan's son, who has kids in the program, helps out a lot. Austin Downing, he was Middletown's baseball coach. They are trying to get the kids back into it.

There was once a knothole program at Middletown's Smith Park but it was 10 years that there was no program available.

"We had a big knothole program there for years and baseball just got taken away," Kyle said. "We just wanted to make sure that kids were getting the opportunity to experience baseball."

Schwarber's charity in Philadelphia put together a big baseball equipment drive. 

"They were able to donate so much equipment," Kyle said. "Kids now will be able to go home with a glove and baseball. Now they can go home and toss with their friends or play wall ball or whatever it is, just to experience baseball. It is something we want to do for our town. It had such an impact, obviously with me but my best friends to this day are who I grew up playing baseball with. We all have kids now. It's fun now to see all of our kids growing up. To be what our parents were when we were growing up."

Kyle Schwarber Comes Home To Lift His Adoptive Phillies To A Win

 

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Kyle Schwarber hit a deciding home run with two outs in the eighth inning to turn a 1-0 loss into a 4-1 win for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Andrew Abbott held off the Phillies after the Reds opened with a run in the first inning.

TJ Friedl doubled against Taijuan Walker to open the game. A two-out infield single extended the inning. Gavin Lux singled past Bryce Harper at first base to plate the go ahead run.

"We needed to put some more runs on the board," Lux said. "We needed to make it a little easier for Abbott. He shoved for eight innings."

Abbott retired the first 12 Phillies batters in order before J.T Realmuto doubled to open the fifth innings. Ke'Bryan Hayes robbed Realmuto of another double with a diving stop leading off the second inning. 

Edmundo Sosa led off the sixth inning with a single and Harper led off the seventh with a double.

A ground ball got Harper to third with one out but Noelvi Marte threw Harper out at the plate on Nick Castellanos fly to right.

"At the time it could have been a game-saving play," Terry Francona said. "It was fun to watch."

The Phillies scored three runs off Abbott with two outs in the eighth. Abbott struck out Harrison Bader and Otto Kemp. Soto singled with two outs.

"I felt good. I executed the pitch. He put a good swing on it," Abbott said. "Wilson just got it down the line. It wasn't a bad pitch."

Weston Wilson doubled over Hayes' head into the left field corner to tie the game. Trea Turner singled to give the Phillies the lead. 

"I had no thoughts of not sending him back out. He struck out the first two hitters, so he had something in the tank," Francona said.

Tony Santillan relieved Abbott. Middletown, Ohio native, Schwarber, hit his 42nd home run to extend the lead to 4-1.

Will Benson Takes A Lefty Deep Emilio Pagan Toughs Out A Save

 

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Will Benson hit his ninth home run with a man on of the season off left handed pitcher Dylan Dodd to power the Reds to a 3-2 win over the Braves.

Left handed batters were hitting .292 against Dodd coming into the game with two outs in the seventh. Terry Francona elected to let Benson face him. He sent Austin Hays to hit for Gavin Lux against Dodd in the eighth.

"He hit that ball in traffic. I'm thrilled he did," Francona said.

Matt McLain singled to score Benson to break a scoreless tie in the sixth inning. Benson singled and stole second to set up the run.

Brady Singer (9-8) struck out a season-high 10 batters in six scoreless innings. He allowed four hits and a walk. It was his first career win over the Braves in four decisions.

"I told Chase Burns that I could do it too," Singer joked. Burns is on a current streak of three games with 10 strikeouts.

Bryce Elder (4-8) pitched 6 ⅔ innings, allowing one run on four hits and two walks.

Scott Barlow pitched a scoreless seventh. 

Tony Santillan appeared in his major league leading 55th appearance in a scoreless eighth.

Emilio Pagan entered seeking his 23rd save in 26 chances. The Braves put the tying run on base with no outs. Ozzie Albies singled a run home.  Eli White struck out but Luke Williams hit a sacrifice fly but Jurickson Profar grounded out to end the game

Pagan retired all three batters in the 10th inning but picked up the loss in the 12-11 Braves victory on Thursday.

Austin Riley struck out four times leaving three runners on base.

Key moment

Singer pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the second inning.

Key stat

Benson has two hits, both home runs against left handed pitchers in 17 at bats.

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