CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Christian Yelich hit his fourth home run in six games and the Milwaukee Brewers extended their winning streak to eight games, beating the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 Monday night.<\/p>\n
Yelich \u2014 named the National League Player of the Week earlier in the day \u2014 connected on a full-count slider from Brady Singer (6-4) and drove it 417 feet to straightaway center and off the batter\u2019s eye to put Milwaukee on top in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Sal Frelick had a pair of hits for the Brewers, who have their longest winning streak since running off nine straight in August 2023.<\/p>\n
Aaron Civale (1-1) picked up his first win of the season in his third start since missing nearly two months due to a strained left hamstring. The right-hander, who went 5 1\/3 innings, rebounded after allowing two runs in the first and struck out five.<\/p>\n
Trevor Megill retired Cincinnati in order in the ninth for his 12th save in 13 opportunities.<\/p>\n
The Reds took a 2-0 lead in the first on RBI base hits by Elly De La Cruz and Spencer Steer.<\/p>\n
The Brewers responded with a pair in the second after loading the bases. Joey Ortiz drew a walk to score Sal Frelick and Brice Truang\u2019s sacrifice fly plated Andrew Monasterio.<\/p>\n
The Reds had runners on first and second with one out in the sixth inning, but Milwaukee left-hander Rob Zastryzny struck out Jose Trevino and got pinch-hitter Santiago Espinal to ground out. Zastryzny was acquired in a trade with the Yankees on May 16. He was with the Brewers last season and went 1-0 with a 1.17 ERA in nine appearances. He hasn\u2019t allowed a run in seven appearances this year.<\/p>\n
Yelich is batting .450 over the last 10 games. He has gone 18 for 40 with six homers and 14 RBIs.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee right-hander Freddy Peralta (5-3, 2.77 ERA) has the eighth-lowest ERA in the NL. Cincinnati will go with RHP Hunter Greene (4-3, 2.63 ERA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Christian Yelich hit his fourth home run in six games and the Milwaukee Brewers extended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2132,5,136,50,2335,843,59,4280,4,505,10124,1278],"class_list":{"0":"post-75215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-aaron-civale","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-home-run","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","15":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-national-league","18":"tag-winning-streak","19":"tag-yelich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114617411461384499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}