MILWAUKEE (AP) Joey Votto's RBI dual pennyless your scoreless place inside ninth, and also the Cincinnati Reds held about for you to exhausted the particular Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 on Wednesday.
Drew Stubbs singled out of Brewers nearer John Axford with two outs, and Votto covered a tennis ball over the glove of subsequent baseman Rickie Weeks to help rating Stubbs from first. Brandon Phillips then struck a bloop single, traveling within Votto for the 2-0 lead.
Ryan Braun homered away from Sean Marshall from the bottom level in the ninth, his or her 10th belonging to the season, in order to cut the lead to 2-1. Marshall allowed a couple of two-out singles for you to Jonathan Lucroy along with Norichika Aoki along with was exchanged by simply Logan Ondrusek, who seem to walked George Kottaras to weight the bases.
Ondrusek got Travis Ishikawa that will undo out, gaining his or her very first save.
It has been the 1,500th important league victory for Reds manager Dusty Baker. Axford (0-2) procured the particular loss.
The Reds received two out of about three adventures from the particular struggling Brewers.
Cincinnati's ninth-inning fireworks came up once an extraordinary pitchers' duel between the actual Brewers' Zack Greinke as well as Reds' Johnny Cueto.
Greinke pitched actions scoreless innings just before being removed for your pinch-hitter inside the bottom part from the inning. He threw in the towel a pair of visits with no strolls plus had your season-high 11 strikeouts - his fifteenth vocation double-digit strikeout game.
Coming directly into Wednesday's game, Greinke had been 13-0 inside 18 commences while a Brewer with Miller Park - making your pet the sixth gamer since 1900 that will win all of his or her earliest tough luck dwelling selections that has a team. The Brewers were 18-0 throughout games Greinke commenced with home, this third-longest these talent to get a pitcher around history.
Cueto held the particular Brewers scoreless as a result of eleven innings just before reliever Aroldis Chapman followed set for the eighth. Cueto lost the battle five strikes and also a go around along with several strikeouts.
Chapman (3-0) went on that win.
Cueto emerged into Wednesday's online game with a good early-season hot streak, having offered up simply five received owns inside half a dozen outings that year. He was returning away from a complete-game triumph from Pittsburgh.
Cueto bought out of difficulties in the third, loading that bottoms with not one but two outs on a sole through Nyjer Morgan, a go around that will Weeks plus an infield reach by means of Braun. Cueto in that case received Aramis Ramirez to ground away as well as ending the actual inning.
After heading off the initial twelve batters this individual faced, Greinke allowed a dual to Stubbs in the fourth. Votto sprang available and Stubbs stole third, but Greinke minted out and about Phillips to end the particular inning.
Stubbs' two times appeared to be the sole make Greinke quit with the earliest five innings.
Cueto continued to help voyage because well. Braun along with Ramirez each followed nearly property works inside the sixth but flew away for the warning trail inside appropriate arena in back-to-back at-bats.
Cueto didn't allow for some sort of Brewers baserunner while in the fourth, fifth or sixth innings, then offered upwards some sort of two-out two times to be able to Taylor Green inside the seventh prior to receiving Cesar Izturis to help floor available in addition to conclude this inning.
Greinke struck out and about along side it inside eighth, when using the game nevertheless scoreless.
Notes: Braun is at the lineup irrespective of frustrating a nagging Achilles pain Tuesday night. . Both teams are out of Thursday. Milwaukee LHP Randy Wolf (2-3, 6.68 ERA) people Chicago Cubs RHP Matt Garza (2-1, 2.67) with Miller Park about Friday, when Cincinnati RHP Mike Leake (0-4, 5.97) people Washington LHP Gio Gonzalez (3-1, 1.72) within Cincinnati with Friday. . Wednesday's attendance seemed to be 27,090.
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