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- Updated: May 28, 2016
MILWAUKEE — Adam Duvall hit a tying, three-run home run in the Reds’ five-run seventh inning, then delivered a replay-aided, go-ahead RBI in the ninth for a 7-6 win over the Brewers on a tense Saturday afternoon at Miller Park.
The wild win, which saw Cincinnati overcome a 6-1 deficit after starter Alfredo Simon was ejected in the fifth for plunking opposing starter Chase Anderson, erased the Reds’ 11-game losing streak.
Duvall has seven RBIs in the first two games of the series, including four on Saturday. His three-run homer was Duvall’s second in two days, this time against reliable Brewers reliever Michael Blazek, who was charged with five runs on five hits while recording only two outs. It remained a 6-6 tie into the ninth, when the Reds pushed ahead against Brewers closer Jeremy Jeffress.
The inning began with Jeffress hitting Zack Cozart with a pitch, the sixth hit batsman in the game to match the modern National League record. Four batters later the Reds had the bases loaded with one out for Duvall, who grounded into what appeared an inning-ending double play. Crew chief Jim Joyce, however, ordered a replay review, which revealed Brewers second baseman Scooter Gennett didn’t have a foot on the bag while making the turn. The teams returned to the field, with Duvall credited with an RBI groundout.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDTensions flare: Things got chippy beginning in the top of the fourth, when Tyler Holt put the Reds on the scoreboard with a hustle RBI double on a broken-bat soft liner to short right field. Holt was at third base with two outs and Simon at the plate when he suddenly broke for home. Anderson tumbled off the mound while throwing a pitch far inside that hit Simon, who threw down his bat in frustration before walking to first base while Holt was sent back to third. Anderson then retired Cozart to strand both runners.
Payback pitch? Anderson’s next time at bat came leading off the fifth, when Simon fired consecutive pitches inside, the second of which …
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