TJ Friedl called game on Tuesday, and he ended the Milwaukee Brewers’ eight-game winning streak in the process.
Friedl, with two outs on the board in the bottom of the ninth inning at the Great American Ball Park on Tuesday night, started tracking what looked like a very clear home run from Milwaukee Brewers’ left fielder Jake Bauers. With a runner on second, too, the shot would have tied the game up.
But as Friedl got to the wall, he played the ball perfectly. Friedl jumped up, stuck his glove just over the wall and stole the home run away from Bauers. That sealed the 4-2 win for Cincinnati, and sent both Friedl and the Reds into a massive celebration.
The Reds rallied out of a 2-0 hole on Tuesday night after Tyler Stephenson hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning to tie the game up. They then added another in the seventh when Connor Joe hit a sacrifice fly to right, and then Will Benson hit a solo home run in the eighth to put them up by two.
Caleb Durbin then reached second on an error in the ninth with two outs, which gave the Brewers hope. But, despite what should’ve been Bauers’ fifth home run of the season, the Reds escaped with the win. That pushed them to 30-32 on the season, and snapped a three-game losing skid.
The Brewers, on the other hand, have been unstoppable over the past week or so. They swept both the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies while building up an eight-game win streak, and they beat the Reds 4-2 on Monday night to kick off the three-game series. They now hold a 33-29 record, which has them in third in the NL Central.
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