Brewers finish sweep of Reds for control of NL Central

Christian Yelich homered and drove in two runs and three relievers mixed on 3 1/3 scoreless innings because the visiting Milwaukee Brewers rallied for a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds Sunday to finish a three-game sweep

The Brewers‘ bullpen was the story of the three Milwaukee wins, holding the Reds scoreless for a complete of 9 1/3 innings. Nearer Devin Williams saved all three video games, together with Sunday’s win for his twenty third save in 25 possibilities this season

Milwaukee not solely swept the weekend collection, but additionally claimed 5 of the six consecutive conferences across the All-Star break to depart with a two-game lead over Cincinnati within the Nationwide League Central.

The Brewers have crushed the Reds in eight of their 10 conferences this season, and 26 of the previous 35 total

Lefty reliever Hoby Milner (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh and eighth for his first big-league win since June 12, 2022.

Matt McLain had three hits for the Reds, who misplaced their fourth straight and fifth in six video games after successful 20 of 24

Within the eighth inning, Reds reliever Lucas Sims (3-2) walked Willy Adames and yielded a single to former Crimson Jesse Winker that moved Adames to 3rd

On Owen Miller’s sacrifice fly to TJ Friedl in middle to tie the sport, Friedl made a essential psychological mistake. He overthrew the cut-off man, permitting pinch-runner Tyrone Taylor to advance to second base. With two outs, and going through nearer Alexis Diaz, Andruw Monasterio fought off an inside fastball and singled to proper area to attain Taylor with the go-ahead run.

After a scoreless first inning ran Cincinnati’s scoreless drought to twenty-eight innings, the Reds lastly snapped out of it within the second on Joey Votto’s line drive double to the left-center area hole. The hit scored Jonathan India from first base and gave Cincinnati a 1-0 lead

The subsequent batter, Spencer Steer, was referred to as out on a pitch that he argued was clearly exterior. Reds supervisor David Bell, feeling the frustration of a pending three-game sweep, instantly got here out of the dugout to defend Steer and was ejected by residence plate umpire Edwin Jimenez

The Brewers answered within the third when Yelich crushed a dangling breaking ball from Cincinnati starter Ben Energetic an estimated 439 toes to the smoke stacks in right-center for his thirteenth homer of the 12 months and a 1-1 tie. Energetic left after 4 innings as a precautionary measure on account of cramping and dehydration

–Subject Stage Media