Also Follow Reds on https://athlonsports.com/
Dateline: 1,209 Kilometers from the Gulf of Mexico
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment