The Reds got to right-hander Elvin Rodríguez for four homers in the first four innings, and the offense was unable to catch up.

Brice Turang crushed a 3-1 cutter from Reds starter Nick Martinez 417 feet to right-center for a two-run home run with one out in the fifth, giving the Brewers a surprising team dinger leader at this point in the season. The second baseman is the first Brewers player to get to two homers.

Stop digging and start scoring. That is the only way the Reds can climb out of their early-season offensive hole. That first step upward finally happened on Friday.

The Brewers were hoping that Tyler Alexander could give them four innings in a spot start. He gave them more than that. For 6 2/3 innings, it looked like he may have given them a lot more than that.

Yes, the Brewers broadcast is available on Channel 178 Thursday, Channel 177 Friday, Channel 186 Saturday and Channel 182 Sunday. The Reds broadcast is available on the the SiriusXM app. Thursday: Milwaukee LHP Nestor Cortes (0-1, 36.00 ERA) vs. Cincinnati RHP Nick Lodolo (1-0, 3.00 ERA)

The Reds limp into town searching for offense after being shut out 19 innings. On back-to-back days Cincinnati was on the short end of 1-0 games against the Rangers. Yesterday, Hunter Greene was exceptional throwing seven innings of one-run ball, but Jack Leiter and the Texas pen were better limiting the Reds to three hits.

Jackson Chourio homered twice and matched a career high with five RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-2.

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