MILWAUKEE_The Cincinnati Reds have experienced well-documented pitching issues this season but Dan Straily is not one of the guilty parties.
Just ask the Milwaukee Brewers.
Straily (14-8) continued his domination of the Brewers this season with another strong outing Saturday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-1 victory at Miller Park.
In limiting the Brewers to one run in 6 2/3 innings, Straily boosted his record against them to 3-0 in 2016 with a sparkling 1.67 earned run average (five earned runs in 27 innings).
Right-hander Taylor Jungmann made his first start for the Brewers since April and manager Craig Counsell was careful with his pitch count. Jungmann had pitched only two innings of relief since joining the club in early September and was not fully stretched out.
Jungmann got off to a rough start in the first inning. With one down, Scott Schebler blooped a hit just inside the left-field line and Joey Votto followed with a booming home run off the batter's background in center field.
Jungmann then walked Adam Duvall before retiring the next two hitters to get out of the inning. And that would be all of the damage the Reds could muster against him during his four innings of work (three hits, four walks, three strikeouts).
Domingo Santana got one of the runs back in the bottom of the second with one swing of the bat. With one down, he pounded a first-pitch fastball from Straily out to left for his 10th homer of the season.
The Brewers made a threat to tie the score in the fifth inning but couldn't do it. With one down Orlando Arcia and Michael Reed singled, but Straily struck out pinch-hitter Josmil Pinto and slump-ridden Jonathan Villar grounded into a force at second.
After a scoreless inning by Tyler Cravy, Jacob Barnes took over in the sixth for the Brewers and allowed the Reds to stretch their lead to 3-1. Duvall led off with a double to left, stole third with one down and scored when the Brewers brought in their infield, only to have Eugenio Suarez chop a single off the glove of the leaping Villar at third.
The Reds added another run to their lead in the seventh off Rob Scahill. One-out singles by Jose Peraza and Schebler and a walk to Votto loaded the bases, setting up an RBI groundout by Duvall that made it 4-1.
The Brewers took one last run at Straily without success in the bottom of the inning before he departed. A one-out double by Manny Pina and two-out walk by Reed prompted Reds manager Bryan Price to summon reliever Michael Lorenzen, who struck out pinch-hitter Hernan Perez.
Cincinnati padded its lead to 6-1 in the ninth with two tainted runs off Michael Blazek, pitching for the first time since Aug. 13. Blazek had been sidelined by an elbow issue.
