CINCINNATI — The Milwaukee Brewers are back in first place in the National League Central.
Riding great pitching performances and solo home runs from Christian Yelich, William Contreras and Owen Miller, the Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds to three games on Saturday night at the Great American Ball Park, this time by a 3-0 score. broke in succession. .
Freddy Peralta started and pitched a career-best six innings of the season, with the usual back-end trio of Elvis Peguero, Joel Paampus and Devin Williams handling the rest.
These four players worked together to keep the Reds to a single hit in the 4th inning.
As a result, the Brewers (51-42) took a one-game lead over the Reds (50-43) in the Central standings and also won the season series, key to a potential tie-breaking scenario in the future. .
How good was Milwaukee’s pitching against Cincinnati?
Box score:Brewers 3, Reds 0
The Reds went scoreless in three straight games against the Brewers, Cincinnati’s longest scoring streak in over four years.
Milwaukee had three straight shutouts in franchise history, the last being July 19-21 against the Miami Marlins at Miller Park.
Christian Yelich kicks off in style
After rain delayed the start of the game by an hour and 16 minutes, Yelich hit rookie Andrew Abbott’s first pitch just over the left field wall to give the Brewers an immediate 1-0 lead.
It was Yelich’s eighth career homer and fourth of the season.
Abbott bounced back by taking out eight of the next nine batters, but Contreras also hit a homer to right front in the fourth to give Milwaukee a 2-0 lead. The one shot ended the Brewers’ chances of a three-game winning streak by one point. The score is 1-0.
Abbott was dismissed after allowing two solo homers after the sixth inning, though Abbott had 90 pitches, which ultimately led to manager David Bell’s questionable behavior.
Buck Farmer started for Abbott, and No. 7 Miller hit a home run to the second deck to make it three runs.
Freddy Peralta was great
Finally the right arm was able to avoid the big inning.
Peralta picked up form early on, shutting out six innings and allowing only one hit, a broken infield hit by Jake Frehley with one out in the fourth inning.
Cincinnati was able to hold off only two other runners against him (both by walking), and he threw 93 pitches and struck out six before dropping out.
His only other shutout record came in his first start of the season when he kept a clean sheet of six or more innings against the New York Mets at American Family Field.
Bryan Anderson out again
For the second straight game, Bryan Anderson was sidelined with a back injury and was replaced by Andrew Monasterio at third base.
“Last year, he dealt with this issue on a more serious level,” said manager Craig Counsell, noting that Anderson missed much of last June with a similar issue when he was with the Miami Marlins. “So I’ll always watch my lower back. I feel better today. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.”
Saturday’s Brewers Starting Lineup
Christian Yelich DH
William Contreras C.
Willie Adams SS
Owen Miller 1B
Tyrone Taylor RF
Blake Perkins LF
Andrew Monasterio 3B
Blythe Turan 2B
Joey Weamer CF
starting pitcher: Freddie Peralta
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Sunday — Brewers vs. Reds, 1:40 p.m. Milwaukee RHP Adrian Hauser (3-2, 3.68) vs. Cincinnati RHP Ben Lively (4-5, 3.83). Television: Bally Sports Wisconsin. Radio: AM-620.