Brewers 5, Reds 0
MILWAUKEE -- Taylor Jungmann threw six shutout innings and Domingo Santana homered in his first career game at Miller Park as the Milwaukee Brewers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night.
Jungmann (8-5), Milwaukee's rookie right hander, came into the game having lost four of his last six starts but looked much more like the pitcher that began the year 5-1 by holding the Reds to three hits and three walks while striking out five.
Santana, acquired in a deadline deal that sent outfielder Carlos Gomez to Houston last month, had homered twice since being called up from Triple-A on Aug. 21 but had gone 0-for-2 with a strikeout his first two times up Friday.
Facing right-hander Raisel Iglesias (3-6) in the seventh, Santana worked the count to 2-1 before crushing a slider to right-center field.
Iglesias went seven innings and struck out 10 while holding Milwaukee to three runs, four hits and a walk.
Four of the first five Brewers hitters reached against Iglesias.
Catcher Jonathan Lucroy made it 1-0 in the first inning with an RBI double. After a walk to right fielder Ryan Braun, first baseman Adam Lind lined out to left before left fielder Khris Davis drove in Lucroy with a base hit for a 2-0 lead.
Iglesias retired the next two batters to get out of the inning and 16 in a row before Lind's sixth-inning single.
Lind capped a two-hit night with an eighth-inning double that drove in two insurance runs.
NOTES: Reds manager Bryan Price said he still planned on starting LHP David Holmberg on Sunday against the Cubs in Chicago, but Price said that could change as he and his staff try to put together a five-man rotation for the rest of the season. Holmberg has allowed 18 runs in 10 2/3 innings over his last three starts. ... Brewers manager Craig Counsell will use 3B/INF Hernan Perez against left-handed starting pitchers but expects to give the bulk of playing time to INF Elian Herrera, who entered play Friday batting .288 with six doubles and nine RBIs in 24 games since being recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs on July 31. ... The Reds won five of the first six meetings with the Brewers this season but have dropped the last four, including a three-game sweep in Cincinnati from July 3-5. ... Brewers starters haven't recorded a quality start since Aug. 16. In those eight games, Milwaukee's rotation has combined to go 2-6 with a 9.92 ERA.