An expected elite pitching duel turned out to be a rout as Sal Stewart, Jose Trevino and T.J. Friedl homered to lead the Cincinnati Reds past Jacob Misiorowski and the host Milwaukee Brewers 7-2 on Thursday.
Chase Burns bested Misiorowski for the Reds, who snapped a four-game losing streak and averted a series sweep by salvaging the fourth contest. Trevino was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and Friedl 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Garrett Mitchell homered for the Brewers, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.
Burns (10-1), who won his ninth consecutive decision, gave up two runs and four hits in six innings with two walks and four strikeouts.
Misiorowski (9-4) allowed five runs (one earned) on five hits in five innings. He did not walk a batter and struck out 10 to push his major league-leading total to 156.
Cincinnati solved Misiorowski early as Stewart’s one-out home run in the first gave the Reds a 1-0 lead.
He caught up with Misiorowski’s 102 mph four-seam fastball and drove it to the opposite field — with an exit velocity of 102.7 mph — an estimated 402 feet over the right-center-field fence. It was Stewart’s 17th homer.
Misiorowski struck out the other three batters in the inning.
Trevino’s three-run homer with two outs highlighted a four-run fourth to give the Reds a 5-0 lead. Noelvi Marte’s RBI single had made it 2-0 before Trevino lofted Misiorowski’s 3-2 cutter down the left field line and just over the fence for his first home run.
None of the runs were earned because first baseman Jake Bauers’ error allowed leadoff man JJ Bleday to reach base.
Mitchell’s homer leading off the fifth put Milwaukee on the board. He took Burns’ 0-1 four-seam fastball to the opposite field, down the line in left, for his seventh home run.
Brice Turang’s run-scoring double in the sixth made it 5-2.
Friedl’s third home run off Grant Anderson with two away in the seventh extended Cincinnati’s lead to 6-2. Friedl added an RBI single in the eighth.
