Cincinnati Reds End Milwaukee Brewers Win Streak in 4-2 Victory

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00:00Streaks are meant to be broken. Yes, they are. And the Milwaukee Brewers had a really good run,

00:04which included good, beating good clubs, as you should say, such as the Philadelphia Phillies.

00:08They took that win streak on the road yesterday to take on the Cincinnati Reds. The final score

00:12of that game, four to two. Hey, another victory for the Brewers? No, it wasn't. It was a victory

00:17for the Cincinnati Reds trying to climb back over 500 in the Central Division. So a big tilt.

00:22The Brewers dropped to 33 and 29, but let's understand how this game also played out.

00:26Freddie Peralta was on the mound pitching for the Brewers. Quality pitcher. Six innings pitched,

00:30seven hits, three earned runs given up. His ERA still sticking under three at a 2.92. That's a

00:36good start. You'll take that. Bullpen came in. Didn't help out all that much at this point,

00:42but the Cincinnati Reds picking up that victory. Peralta was good enough to win that game.

00:46Hunter Green, here was the question we came in yesterday, right? Such a good young pitcher here.

00:50Started the season absolutely on fire and gets the dreaded hamstring injury. This was his third

00:55start coming back after that hamstring injury, but it was sort of like they were taking an ease on

00:59him, right? Let's not get you out of the sixth inning. Let's have you on a pitch count. I don't

01:02think he was really on a pitch count yesterday, but only goes five innings pitched. Two earned

01:06runs, seven strikeouts, gives up a home run. 85 total pitches, so certainly not letting him go into the

01:1290s or close to 100 for an extra inning. The bullpen for the Cincinnati Reds, much better yesterday

01:17than the Milwaukee Brewers. Barlow, Ashcraft, Centillian, and Pagan, all pitching shutouts there

01:23after helping out Hunter Green. Green ends up there. Does Green actually get to win that? No,

01:27he actually didn't. Did he get to win? No, Ashcraft actually picked up the win, so when he left the

01:31game, we were still tied. Also, if you were watching this all the way through, there was a chance for

01:36the Brewers in the ninth inning, man. That final out with Pagan on the mound, that was an absolute

01:41rocket shot to center field with legitimate chance for a home run. Ends up being caught by the Cincinnati

01:46Reds, and they pick up that victory. If you take a look at the lineup there, the usual suspects.

01:50I've been a big fan of Friedel in the top of that Reds lineup. He goes one for four yesterday,

01:56now up to 3-0-4 on the season. We also take a look at Eli De La Cruz yesterday. One for two in that

02:01game, gets two free trips with bases. Stevenson had a couple base knocks, Steer had a couple base

02:05knocks, but the one guy I'm looking forward to in this game, which even in a losing effort and sort

02:09of snapped that streak, was Christian Yelich. Big game yesterday, or excuse me, big game two days ago,

02:14Pax sat down with two of four yesterday, which included an RBI. It just wasn't good enough.

02:20The better pitching yesterday was from the Cincinnati Reds aspect here, and that's usually

02:23a hitter's ballpark. Make no mistake about it, with warmer temperatures as the way it's set up.

02:28Yesterday, it was the Cincinnati Reds upending the Milwaukee Brewers. Now, if we take a look at the

02:32Brewers season statistics now, which includes the record, 33-29 on the season. To win the NL Central,

02:39that's a pretty hefty price here, at a plus 950 to try to chase down those Chicago Cubs. You take a look

02:44at the NL pennant numbers, 36-1, and the winning World Series. That is 80-1 people for the Brewers.

02:51One of those teams that doesn't do it with a lot of excitement, but seems like on a year-to-year

02:54basis, usually very good. Council leaves them, goes over to the Cubs. We'll see how they can

02:58certainly factor through that, but that's certainly an interesting one here.