CINCINNATI — A go-ahead home run from Spencer Steer in the eighth and a strong pitching outing from Nick Lodolo helped the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 on Sunday.
For the Brewers, this was the final road game, who still remain 1 1/2 games back of Philadelphia for the third and final NL wild-card spot.
Milwaukee will close out the season with nine games at home against St. Louis, Miami and Arizona. The Brewers must win the wildcard spot outright as they would lose any tiebreakers with the Phillies or San Diego due to losing the season series against both of teams.
The loss also marks to first time the Brewers were unable to complete their first four-game sweep of the Reds since 2003
The lone run for the Brewers game off the bat of Hunter Renfroe, who homered on the first pitch leading off the second for a 1-0 lead.
Freddy Peralta, who hadn’t pitched since Sept. 8 due to right shoulder inflammation, threw two innings before giving way to Aaron Ashby.
Cincinnati would tie the score 1-1 in the fourth when Ashby hit Austin Romine with the bases loaded — one of two hit batters for Ashby.
Milwaukee's lone run and all of its hits against Lodolo came in the second inning.
Steer's solo home run to lead off the eighth was his second homer of the season, his first came on the day of his major league debut on Sept. 2.
Matt Bush (2-3) took the loss for Brewers.
For the Reds, Buck Farmer (2-1) got the win and Alexis Diaz earned his ninth save of the season.
UP NEXT
Brewers: RHP Adrian Houser (6-9, 4.62) starts Tuesday in the opener of a two-game series against the Cardinals.
Reds: RHP Chase Anderson (2-3, 5.21) will start the opener of a three-game series at Pittsburgh on Monday.
Milwaukee Cincinnati
ab r h bi ab r h bi
McCutchen dh 4 0 0 0 Friedl lf 3 0 1 0
Adames ss 4 0 0 0 India 2b 4 0 1 0
Yelich lf 4 0 0 0 K.Farmer ss 4 0 0 0
Renfroe rf 4 1 1 1 Steer 3b 4 1 2 1
Brosseau 3b 2 0 1 0 Fairchild cf 4 0 1 0
Wong ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Lopez dh 4 1 0 0
Urías 2b-3b 3 0 1 0 Aquino rf 2 0 0 0
Hiura 1b 1 0 1 0 Reynolds 1b 2 0 1 0
Tellez ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Romine c 2 0 0 1
Caratini c 3 0 0 0 Taylor cf 2 0 1 0
Peterson ph 1 0 0 0 Mitchell cf 0 0 0 0
Totals 3 0 15 1 Totals 29 2 6 2
Milwaukee 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 1
Cincinnati 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 x — 2
E_Hiura (6). DP_Milwaukee 0, Cincinnati 1. LOB_Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 8. 2B_Hiura (5), Friedl (10). HR_Renfroe (28), Steer (2).
IP H R ER BB SO
Milwaukee
Peralta 2 2 0 0 1 3
Ashby 1 2-3 2 1 1 2 0
Strzelecki 11-3 0 0 0 0 2
Gott 1 0 0 0 0 0
Boxberger 1 1 0 0 0 2
Bush L,0-2 1 1 1 1 0 1
Cincinnati
Lodolo 6 4 1 1 1 6
Law 1 1 0 0 0 1
B.Farmer W,2-1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Díaz S,9-13 1 0 0 0 0 3
HBP—Ashby 2 (Friedl,Romine).
Umpires—Home, Chris Guccione; First, Mark Carlson; Second, Ryan Additon; Third, Jordan Baker.
T—2:46. A—19,952 (42,319).
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