Community Picks: Milwaukee Brewers 0% vs Cincinnati Reds 0%

Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell and Cincinnati counterpart Bryan Price had definite ideas about areas to improve with their struggling teams during the last 2 1/2 months of the season. Counsell's Brewers missed a golden opportunity to pull out a win over the Reds on Friday at Great American Ball Park, loading the bases with one out in the ninth inning before Scooter Gennett and Ryan Braun popped up to help the Reds hold on for a 5-4 win. Price's Reds committed one fielding error and another mental lapse on defense and had to overcome Tony Cingrani's ninth-inning difficulties while trying to close out the win and snap a three-game losing streak. Continue to Article

July 16, 2016 12:41:am EST

Highlights of Major League Baseball games on Friday: Nationals 5, Pirates 1 Stephen Strasburg remained unbeaten and drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning as the Washington Nationals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, thanks to several defense breakdowns by the visitors in the key inning. Strasburg (13-0), who gave up one run and three hits with six strikeouts in eight innings, plated the winning run in the four-run seventh on a strange play. With runners on first and third and no outs, Strasburg laid down a nice bunt up the first-base line.Reliever Neftali Feliz picked up the ball and looked home before throwing to first. Continue to Article

July 16, 2016 12:01:am EST

Adam Duvall and Tucker Barnhart doubled home runs in the sixth inning Friday night, rallying Cincinnati to a 5-4 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers that snapped a three-game losing streak. ''We're 1-0 in the second half,'' Barnhart said. Duvall's double off Matt Garza (1-3) cut Milwaukee's lead to 3-2, the ball hitting the top of the wall in left. Continue to Article

July 15, 2016 11:24:pm EST