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Reds can’t
complete sweep of Brewers
CINCINNATI -- Homer Bailey was knocked around for two home runs as
Brewers starter Zack Greinke helped send the Reds to an 8-4 loss
Wednesday that prevented them from completing a three-game series sweep.
Bailey pitched four-plus innings and allowed five runs, four earned,
with seven hits, one walk and one strikeout. He was lifted after not
retiring either of his two batters in the fifth.
In the top of the second inning, Corey Hart smoked a drive to the
warning track in center field. The ball went into and out of Chris
Heisey’s glove during a leaping catch attempt before he crashed into
the wall. Next up was Rickie Weeks, who crushed a 2-1 Bailey pitch over
the wall in center field for a two-run homer and a 2-0 Milwaukee lead.
Bailey’s error on a pickoff throw to first base sent Norichika Aoki to
second base with two outs in the third inning. It cost him a run when
Aramis Ramirez’s RBI single into left field scored Aoki and made it a
three-run game.
Greinke pitched six innings and gave up two runs and five hits with one
walk and three strikeouts. Cincinnati mounted a two-out rally in the
third on Heisey’s double and Joey Votto’s walk. Brandon Phillips came
through with an RBI single to right field.
Bailey had two outs and two strikes on Cody Ransom in the top of the
fourth and let him get away, as Ransom ripped an 0-2 pitch to left
field for a two-run homer. Leading off the bottom of the fourth, Ryan
Ludwick -- who homered twice -- got one run back with a first-pitch
homer to left field off of Greinke. But Greinke recovered to retire his
final nine batters in a row.
The Brewers missed a chance to blow the game open after having the
bases loaded with no outs in the seventh. Reliever Bill Bray struck out
Aoki and then caught a break. Ransom was caught between third base and
home in a rundown after a failed suicide squeeze attempt by Nyjer
Morgan. Bray got Morgan to ground out to second base to keep the
deficit at three runs.
In the bottom of the eighth against Francisco Rodriguez, Zack Cozart
snapped an 0-for-19 skid with a leadoff single and took second base on
a wild pitch. Heisey’s walk brought Votto up representing the tying
run. Votto just missed delivering just that as his drive to right field
was caught at the warning track. The Reds settled for one run as Cozart
scored from third base on Miguel Cairo’s fielder’s-choice grounder to
shortstop.
Cairo entered the game in the sixth, replacing Phillips, who exited as
a precaution after taking a forearm to the face on Ramirez’s steal
attempt in the third.
Jose Arredondo allowed three runs in the ninth inning, issuing a pair
of bases-loaded walks, to keep the game out of reach.
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