Keyvious Sampson took over from there and worked five innings and allowed just a run – Braun’s second homer of the day – and two hits while striking out four.
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The inning started when Joey Votto lined a single off Davies’ lower leg. Davies insisted after the game that the glancing blow didn’t have an effect on his pitching. Phillips is 16-for-30 with six multiple-hit games and nine RBIs in his last eight contests.2.
“I just wasn’t making very good pitches”, said Reed, who is 0-7 with a 7.36 ERA in 10 big league starts. The 27-year-old Nelson’s woes continued when he was knocked around for seven runs (six earned) in 4 1/3 innings at Arizona after allowing six runs to San Diego in his previous turn.
Milwaukee catcher Martin Maldonado said Davies missed locations with his pitches in the sixth. My mechanics have been pretty good. that’s one of the reasons my velocity has been there, has been up in my last few starts.
“You can’t let those kind of ballgames slip away from you. He was kind of up in the zone”. Brandon Phillips leads Cincinnati with 116 hits, Joey Votto has 59 RBI and Zack Cozart has 15 home runs.
Ryan Braun hit a solo homer off Straily in the sixth. That’s hardly the case for the right-hander, who looks to remain undefeated since the All-Star break when Cincinnati continues a three-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers and right-hander Zach Davies, who is unbeaten in his last six outings.Straily and Davies squared off against one another on July 17 and each pitcher turned in one of his best performances of the season, although neither factored in the decision.
Matt Szczur hit two home runs and Chicago won its 11th straight game, backing Jake Arrieta and battering Adam Wainwright to rout St. Louis on Friday. Brewers 2B Scooter Gennett has hit safely in 18 of his last 20 games. 3.
Milwaukee and Cincinnati wore jerseys with “Cerveceros” and “Los Rojas, ” respectively, across the front in honor of Hispanic heritage in baseball. Guerra has been out since August 8 and is eligible to come off the disabled list on Friday.
“We were anxious a little about about what would happen after losing the hitter (Jonathan Lucroy) behind him”, Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. Santana has been out since June 10 with right elbow soreness.
Making the most of a second chance, Peralta has a 2.25 ERA in two starts since being recalled from Class AAA Colorado Springs on August 8.
Reed tossed six scoreless innings his last time out, but the afterglow from that start dissipated nearly immediately.
Brewers: Wily Peralta (4-8, 6.38) will make his second start since being recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs earlier this month.
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Reds: LHP Brandon Finnegan (7-8, 4.45 ERA) will face Miami for the first time in his career Monday.
