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Brewers win 6-5 in Cincinnati and complete a 3game sweep of the Reds.  Milwaukee now a season high 20-games over .500.  Off on Thursday with the Cubs coming to American Family Field for a 3-game weekend showdown.

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How about that one for the Brewers tonight? It is uh there is a lot to get to in this game. The Brewers get a win tonight, 6'5 in Cincinnati. They complete a sweep over the Reds. For the Brewers, it's their first in Cincinnati uh since 2023. The Reds weren't swept at all last year in Cincinnati and not yet this year. So the Brewers do something that you just don't do very often. How about our new uh Brew Daily graphic? Uh, and my thanks to Agency Next and uh the work that they're doing for us. And we were also presented by Lombardi Laminata. I'll tell you more about that as the week goes on, but I appreciate their support of what we do with Brood Daily. So, what are the details? Well, you win 6'5 and you had your bullpen all down. I mean, all of your mainstays. Now, with Aaron Ashby, they showed him once in the bullpen, but I think he was not available. I don't know if that was a deek, whatever. He wasn't available, McGill wasn't available, and Abner Yuribe took the one-game suspension tonight because he likely would not have been available. So in this game, you had to do it with a bullpen that was made up of what you had left over. Chad Patrick was good enough, and I'll get to Shane Drowing in a minute. He was good enough, but after that, you weren't good enough out of the bullpen in this game. Craig Yoho, not good enough, didn't execute, gave up a big two-run home run. And then Koonell was good. Grant Anderson was not good enough. Yoho was not good enough. Patrick was okay, and Koonell was great. So we get to this. You leaned on Shane Drone in this game. You leaned on him, and he did not have great command or his best up, but he bulldogged this one. And the Reds do something that teams don't do very often, and that is they left 16 on base. Drone did a great job. Short bullpen night. Drone went four and a third, five hits, three walks, no runs, 98 pitches. So he he did his job. After that, you weren't good enough for a while. So let's talk about how the Brewers got their runs because they did it on just a few swings of the bat. Back-to-back home runs for the Brewers. First time it happened this year. First one came, both of them with two outs in the third inning. William Contreras off the top of the wall in right center and over for a two-run homer, followed by Jake Bowers, a no-doubter, two-thirds of the way up the uh the bleachers in right field. And the Brewers led 3-0. The way the Reds have hit in the series, you'd think that might be good enough. Probably not tonight. Great American Ballpark showed up in this one. Um, and I would add that in the bottom of the of the sixth inning, Chad Patrick got out of a deal. Tying runs at second and third, and Ellie De La Cruz hit a ball 110 miles an hour that Garrett Mitchell made a great play on. I mean, a great play. The ball stayed up in the air long enough, but Mitchell has to get a great read and a confident uh approach towards the ball because if he misplays it, it's gonna go by him all the way to the wall. He made a great catch. I didn't want that one to be ignored in this one. Player of the game is Andrew Vaughn. He only had one at bat. He was in the game, and they don't uh there's no clock in baseball, right? He's in the game for about two and a half minutes tops. They pinch hit him. The Reds screwed up. Not very often do managers lose games. Many times we talk about them winning games, but Terry Francona, Tito was not ready. They should have had a right hander up and good to go for Vaughn. To me, it's one of the moments of the game. And Vaughn, with a bases loaded, drills a ground ball single, past the bag at third, into the corner single, a double into the corner, scored all three runs. Let me tell you why Terry Francona lost the game for the Reds. In 44 at bats coming into the game tonight against left-handed pitchers, Andrew Bond was 20 for 44. That's a 455 batting average and a 1328 OPS. He can't face a left-hander. And in fact, Francona intentionally walked Contreras earlier in the inning. So you're setting yourself up for that move, and he didn't have a right-hander ready to face Vaughn. So when Vaughn came on and faced a left-hander, Tito's got to wear that one. It'd be interesting to watch what he said post-game in Cincinnati on that decision or lack of player of the game, Andrew Vaughn with the three-run RBI double, three-run double into the corner and left. He now has 24 RBIs. Play of the game. This one gets a little bit more complicated. There's more involved here in the play of the game. I'll start with this. Top of the seventh after a one-out triple by Tarang. The Reds intentionally walked Contreras. That's what I'm talking about. Unintentionally walked Jake Bowers. Really good at bat by Bowers. I mean, really good at bat. Some he spit on a couple of pitches there that were really good. So the bases are loaded. You pinch hit for Mitchell with Vaughn, left-hander on the mound. You're waiting for them to make the move, and he either wasn't ready or Tito just decided to damn the splits and went with the left-hander against Vaughn anyway. And Vaughn destroys left-handed pitching. The other one play of the game is the bottom of the ninth. It comes down to that. Joel Kuhnell gives up a single to open and then a walk. A really bad bunt by Arroyo and a good play by Koonell to get the force at third. So then a walk. Bases are loaded, one out, and it's hit. There's nobody up in the bullpen. This is it. Dane Myers, 6'4-3 double play. And I know you noticed it. I know you noticed that Cooper Pratt juggled the exchange from glove to hand, but was able to keep it. And then Tarang hurried up the relay, and the Brewers get the 6-4-3 double play to end it. Joel Coonel, a four-out save. He could have won player of the game, too. I gave it to Vaughn because that is the moment I think the Brewers win the game. So Milwaukee, 49-29. They are a season high, 20 games above 500. They lead the Cardinals by 6.5. The Cubs by 7. The Cubs swept the doubleheader in New York and they come into Milwaukee on Friday. Dans B. Swanson had 11 runs batted in in the doubleheader today. So the Cubs went two. The Cardinals lose. So the Cubs are within a half a game of St. Louis for a second place. But the Brewers leading the division six and a half over the Redbirds, seven over the Cubs, 10 over Pittsburgh, 11.5 over Cincinnati, and the Cubs come into town on Friday after an off day on Thursday. Darren says it looked like maybe Cooper was thinking of taking it himself, then juggled. Yeah, maybe. I don't think so. Maybe, but I think the ball just wasn't clean, gloved to hand. But listen, it was clean enough. They started and finished the 6'4 double play to rap it. How much fun was that? Now, Vinny Rettino's on the call tonight, and he's doing the post-game show. And then they'll take that happy flight, short flight home from Cincinnati. He joins me on I Love Mondays beginning on Thursday morning. He'll be with me just after 10 o'clock. So we'll keep him for most of the duration. Also, the news today Jared Koenig is going to rejoin the team this weekend in that series against the Cubs and join the Bullpen. Somebody's out. Might have been one of the players, one of the pitchers that failed tonight. We'll see. I Love Mondays tomorrow morning at 10. No Brood Daily on Thursday. Back with you on Friday. What a big Brewers win on Wednesday night in Cincinnati. 20 games over 500. Have a great night. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning on I Love Mondays, 10 a.m. tomorrow.