Cincinnati's Jose Iglesias hit a homer and drove in four runs as the visiting Reds won their season-high fifth straight game, trouncing the slumping Milwaukee Brewers 7-1 on Thursday night.
Iglesias went 2-for-5 with a two-run single and two-run homer, notching his third four-RBI game this season, as the Reds built a 5-1 lead through five innings.
Nick Senzel was 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs, and Yasiel Puig recorded two hits, including a triple, and stole a base.
Jesse Winker also tripled and reached base three times, and Derek Dietrich singled, was hit by two pitches and scored twice.
Cincinnati starter Tanner Roark (5-6) yielded just one run on three hits, striking out seven and not walking a batter but hitting three Brewers with pitches in his six innings.
Milwaukee's Christian Yelich was 2-for-4 with his league-leading 28th home run, but the Brewers mustered just five hits and lost their fourth straight.
Starter Jimmy Nelson (0-2) struggled with command in his third start, allowing five runs on seven hits, four walks and a hit batter.
The teams' hurlers combined to hit a league-high six batters in their sixth meeting.
Wildness plagued Nelson in a three-run first inning as he walked two, plunked a batter and allowed two singles.
The second walk was a bases-loaded one to Senzel, plating a run, and Iglesias grounded a two-run single past Nelson to score Eugenio Suarez and Dietrich.
Roark cruised through three hitless innings before Yelich barreled up an 88-mph slider to the back of the second deck in right for a home run leading off the fourth, extending the reigning National League MVP's hitting streak to 17 games.
The blast's 114.2 mph exit velocity and 462-foot distance was the longest by a Brewers player this season, and it was also the hardest hit and longest by Yelich during the Statcast era.
Puig gapped a ball to left-center and legged it out for a triple, and Iglesias launched a Nelson curveball to left-center for his fifth homer and a 5-1 lead in the fifth.
Roark danced around first-and-second, no-out trouble in the fifth by retiring pinch-hitter Jesus Aguilar on a double play and Yelich on grounders to third base.
Senzel hit out a 94-mph high fastball from Freddy Peralta to left for his seventh homer to score Dietrich for a 7-1 lead in the seventh.
--Field Level Media
Cincinnati | Milwaukee | |
Tanner Roark | Player | Jimmy Nelson |
Win | W/L | Loss |
6.0 | IP | 5.0 |
7 | Strikeouts | 5 |
3 | Hits | 7 |
1.50 | ERA | 9.00 |
Cincinnati | Milwaukee | |
Nick Senzel | Player | Christian Yelich |
2 | Hits | 2 |
3 | RBI | 1 |
1 | HR | 1 |
5 | TB | 5 |
.500 | Avg | .500 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Cincinnati | 10 | 2 | 20 | .278 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Milwaukee | 5 | 1 | 8 | .167 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |