Jose Barrero hit his first two major league home runs to help the visiting Cincinnati Reds to a 7-5 win against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night.
Joey Votto and Donovan Solano also homered for the Reds, who have won five of seven.
Reds starter Nick Lodolo went 4 2/3 innings, allowing three runs and four hits. He struck out four and walked four on 100 pitches.
Brewers left-hander Aaron Ashby (2-10) also went 4 2/3 innings, allowing four runs and three hits. He struck out five and walked five.
Andrew McCutchen and Keston Hiura homered and Christian Yelich went 3-for-4 for the Brewers, who have lost five of six.
Albert Almora Jr. and Jonathan India had RBI doubles in the second inning to give Cincinnati a 2-0 lead.
Ashby surrendered a leadoff walk to Aristides Aquino after getting ahead 0-2, and Almora followed with a double to deep left for a 1-0 lead. Ashby retired the next two batters, but India doubled to deep right to drive in the second run.
Almora walked with one out in the fourth and Barrero followed with a two-run blast to center, his first home run in 125 major league at-bats over the past three seasons. The 24-year-old was recalled from Triple-A Louisville on Wednesday and made his season debut that night.
McCutchen took Lodolo deep to start the bottom of the fourth inning and cut the lead to 4-1. Hunter Renfroe walked with one out in the inning, and Hiura followed with a two-run blast to make it 4-3.
Barrero went deep again in the sixth to make it 5-3. The only other Cincinnati player to hit his first two MLB homers in the same game was Harry Steinfeldt, back in 1900.
Votto hit a solo homer in the seventh, and Solano hit a solo homer in the ninth to stretch Cincinnati's lead to 7-3.
Lodolo was one out away from qualifying for the win, but he left with the bases loaded and two outs in the fifth. Buck Farmer (1-1) came on and got the final out of the inning.
The Brewers scored two runs in the ninth on a groundout and a flyout to complete the scoring.
--Field Level Media
Cincinnati | Milwaukee | |
Nick Lodolo | Player | Aaron Ashby |
No Decision | W/L | Loss |
4.2 | IP | 4.2 |
4 | Strikeouts | 5 |
4 | Hits | 3 |
5.79 | ERA | 7.71 |
Cincinnati | Milwaukee | |
Jose Barrero | Player | Christian Yelich |
2 | Hits | 3 |
3 | RBI | 0 |
2 | HR | 0 |
8 | TB | 4 |
.500 | Avg | .750 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Cincinnati | 8 | 4 | 22 | .235 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Milwaukee | 9 | 2 | 17 | .273 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 |