Skid comes to end as Reds finally win
Published 9:22 pm Saturday, May 28, 2016

Cincinnati’s Adam Duvall (23) celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting a game-tying three-run homer in the seventh inning. The Reds beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 on Saturday to snap an 11-game losing streak. (Photo Courtesy of The Cincinnati Reds.com/Mike McGinnis of Getty Images)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Joey Votto scored the go-ahead run in the ninth after an inning-ending double play was overturned, and the Cincinnati Reds snapped their 11-game losing streak with a tense 7-6 win on Saturday over the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Reds completed their comeback from a 6-1 deficit when umpires ruled after the review that infielder Scooter Gennett didn’t have his foot on second while trying to turn a double play on Adam Duvall’s bouncer.
The review came after manager Bryan Price, who was out of challenges, spoke to crew chief Jim Joyce.
Cincinnati scratched their way for the go-ahead run off typically tough reliever Jeremy Jeffress (1-1).
Duvall had a three-run homer in the seventh to tie the game at 6.
A wild afternoon featured six hit batters and the ejection of Reds starter Alfredo Simon in the fifth for hitting counterpart Chase Anderson with a pitch. Anderson had hit Simon earlier.
Blake Wood (4-1) tossed two scoreless innings for the win.
Tony Cingrani gave up a two-out walk to Chris Carter in the ninth after striking out the first two batters, but then he struck out pinch hitter Martin Maldonado to end the game and picked up his fourth save.
After Maldonado got caught looking, the relieved Reds streamed out of the dugout to exchange congratulatory handshakes, something that hadn’t happened since their last victory, 7-4 on May 15 against Philadelphia.
The Reds got to Milwaukee’s typically tough bullpen. Duvall capped a five-run seventh with his three-run homer to left off Michael Blazek, before Jeffress broke down in the ninth.
Simon was ejected in the fifth after hitting Brewers starter Chase Anderson with a pitch in the left shoulder. An inning earlier, Anderson had hit Simon with a pitch with two outs, a sequence that thwarted Tyler Holt’s potential steal of home with the Reds trailing by a run. The Brewers later got out of that jam.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Reds: LHP Jon Moscot (left intercostal) will do his side work and throw a bullpen session at Triple-A Louisville before joining the team next week on the next stop of their road trip in Colorado. … RHP Michael Lorenzen (right elbow) will make another start in an extended spring training game on Tuesday before moving his rehab to one of the Reds’ minor-league affiliates.
Brewers: OF Ryan Braun got a day off from the starting lineup. He grounded into a double play as a pinch hitter in the eighth, snapping his 29-game on-base streak. … RHP Matt Garza (right lat) will join Single-A Wisconsin for his first rehab start on Tuesday, and manager Craig Counsell said the starter could return by June 14.
UP NEXT
Reds: LHP Brandon Finnegan (1-3) is coming off his first career complete game, when he allowed five hits and four walks over eight innings in a 1-0 loss on Monday against the Los Angeles Dodgers and ace Clayton Kershaw.
Brewers: RHP Jimmy Nelson (4-3) has been Milwaukee’s best starter over the first two months of the season with a 2.92 ERA. He has a team-high seven quality starts.
Reds 7, Brewers 6
Cincinnati AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Cozart ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .289
Votto 1b 5 2 2 1 0 1 .212
Phillips 2b 4 1 2 0 1 0 .254
Bruce rf 5 1 2 1 0 2 .261
Duvall lf 5 2 2 4 0 1 .265
Cingrani p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Suarez 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .218
Wood p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
e-Hamilton ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .224
Holt cf-lf 4 0 2 1 0 2 .250
Barnhart c 3 1 1 0 0 0 .236
Simon p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .111
Morris p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Cotham p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Ramirez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
b-De Jesus ph-3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .167
Totals 37 7 11 7 1 8
Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg.
Villar ss 4 0 0 0 1 2 .299
Gennett 2b 4 1 1 1 0 2 .230
Lucroy c 5 2 2 3 0 1 .284
Carter 1b 3 0 0 0 2 1 .231
Nieuwenhuis rf-c 3 0 0 0 1 1 .223
f-Maldonado ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .094
Hill 3b 2 1 2 1 2 0 .282
Presley lf 3 1 0 0 0 0 .221
Broxton cf 3 0 0 0 0 1 .097
c-Flores ph-rf 1 0 1 0 0 0 .221
Anderson p 1 1 0 0 0 0 .000
Torres p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
a-Perez ph 1 0 1 1 0 0 .311
Blazek p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Marinez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
d-Braun ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .351
Jeffress p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Goforth p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
Totals 32 6 7 6 6 9
Cincinnati 000 100 501 = 7 11 1
Milwaukee 200 022 000 = 6 7 0
a-singled for Torres in the 6th. b-flied out for Ramirez in the 7th. c-singled for Broxton in the 8th. d-grounded out for Marinez in the 8th. e-lined out for Wood in the 9th. f-struck out for Nieuwenhuis in the 9th.
E—Votto (2). LOB—Cincinnati 8, Milwaukee 8. 2B—Votto (6), Duvall (13), Holt (2), Barnhart (7). 3B—Gennett (1). HR—Duvall (11), off Blazek; Lucroy (8), off Morris. RBIs—Votto (26), Bruce (30), Duvall 4 (26), Holt (4), Gennett (7), Lucroy 3 (23), Hill (20), Perez (11). SB—Perez (6). SF—Gennett.
Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 4 (Cozart, Bruce, Hamilton 2); Milwaukee 1 (Lucroy). RISP—Cincinnati 5 for 15; Milwaukee 3 for 6.
Runners moved up—Suarez, Barnhart, Duvall. GIDP—Simon, Presley, Braun.
DP—Cincinnati 2 (Cozart, Phillips, Votto), (Cozart, Phillips, Votto); Milwaukee 2 (Gennett, Villar, Carter), (Villar, Gennett, Carter).
Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Simon 4 3 3 2 2 1 63 9.60
Morris 1 1 1 1 1 2 28 13.50
Cotham 1-3 1 2 2 2 1 19 7.40
Ramirez 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 3 5.30
Wood W, 4-1 2 2 0 0 0 2 32 3.91
Cingrani S, 4-8 1 0 0 0 1 3 19 3.32
Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Anderson 5 5 1 1 0 3 76 5.00
Torres H, 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 3.08
Blazek BS, 2-2 2-3 5 5 5 0 1 36 4.12
Marinez 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 2 18 0.00
Jeffress L, 1-1 2-3 1 1 1 1 0 21 2.28
Goforth 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 5 6.75
Simon pitched to 1 batter in the 5th.
Inherited runners-scored—Morris 1-1, Ramirez 3-1, Goforth 2-0. HBP—Anderson 3 (Suarez,Barnhart,Simon), Simon (Anderson), Cotham (Presley), Jeffress (Cozart).
Umpires—Home, James Hoye; First, Chad Fairchild; Second, Jim Joyce; Third, Marvin Hudson.
T—3:46. A—30,293 (41,900).