CINCINNATI — Not even a disappointing return for All-Star Jacob Misiorowski or a seven-run deficit could stop the Milwaukee Brewers’ winning streak with a 10-8 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on Friday night.
Milwaukee answered the Reds’ seven-run second with five runs in the third, tied the game with two in the fourth and took the lead on Christian Yelich’s second home run of the evening in the sixth. Yelich finished the night with four hits and drove in five runs, while six Milwaukee relievers combined to retire the final 22 batters of the game.
The Brewers tied their 1987 squad for the longest win streak in team history.
Early on, it appeared that the Reds would clinch their 40th series, this season, without being swept, and 41st dating back to 2024, while breaking the Brewers’ winning streak. The Reds chased Misiorowski in the second inning, scoring seven in the frame off of the starter and lefty reliever DJ Hall.
Misiorowski, who was named a National League All-Star after just five starts, came off the injured list before Friday’s series-opener and lasted just the 1 1/3 innings in his first start since July 28.
The Reds scored one run in the first off of Misiorowski and would have had another if not for a great play by center fielder Steward Berroa, who threw out Reds right fielder Noelvi Marte at the plate to end the first.
After Misiorowski started the second with his third strikeout of the game, he then appeared to lose his control, first hitting Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson on the hip and then walking three batters to give the Reds a 2-1 lead.
Brewers manager Pat Murphy brought in the left-handed Hall to flip switch-hitting Elly De La Cruz to the right side, his weaker side. De La Cruz answered with a two-run double before the Reds followed with four straight RBI singles, culminating in Marte’s bloop single into right field to give the Reds an 8-1 lead.
Marte’s hit was the last of the game for the Reds.
The Brewers began their five-run third with a pair of singles from nine-hole hitter Brandon Lockridge and leadoff man Sal Frelick. After a Joey Ortiz popup, the Reds nearly got out of the inning with a double play, as De La Cruz fielded a William Contreras grounder near the bag and flipped it to second baseman Gavin Lux with his glove. Lux barehanded the ball and made the throw to first, but Contreras beat it out, extending the inning for Yelich, who’d hit his 24th homer of the season in the first.
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Yelich hit a bloop to shallow left, just off the glove of diving third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes, scoring both runners. Andrew Vaughn followed with a homer to pull the Brewers within three.
The next batter, third baseman Caleb Durbin, hit a single to left that skipped off the glove of left fielder Austin Hays. Second baseman Bryce Turang followed with an RBI double to pull Milwaukee within two.
After Hall retired the Reds in order in the bottom of the third, Frelick and Ortiz hit back-to-back one-out singles. Contreras hit a double-play ball to Lux at second, but Lux couldn’t field it, loading the bases for Yelich. Yelich tied the game with a single down the left-field line.
Yelich came up again in the sixth inning needing a triple to record his fourth career cycle. All three of Yelich’s major-league cycles have been against the Reds, two of them at Great American Ball Park. Instead, Yelich smashed his 25th homer of the season to give the Brewers the lead.
Yelich had another shot at the cycle in the eighth, but grounded out to second.
The Reds missed a chance to take over the third wild-card slot in the National League as the New York Mets, holders of that spot a half-game ahead of the Reds, fell 11-9 to the Seattle Mariners.
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