Scoreless streak over for Reds; Brewers clinging to lead still. Thirty five innings later, the Reds have put a number beside zero on the board. Cincinnati's scoreless streak came

Brice Turang hit a two-run homer, Tyler Alexander struck out six in 5 2/3 hitless innings for his first victory of the season and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on Friday night.

The Reds lost 1-0 to the Brewers on Thursday to become only the second team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to lose three consecutive 1-0 games.

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 Cincinnati Reds ended a 35-inning scoreless streak on Friday night when Christian Encarnacion-Strand hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to drive in TJ Friedl against the Milwaukee Brewers.

In his first start with the Brewers, lefty Tyler Alexander carved up the Reds in a 12-pitch first inning in which he struck out two. After TJ Friedl hit a warning-track flyout to open the game, Alexander got Spencer Steer to swing through a cutter and capped the inning off with a three-pitch punch out of Elly De La Cruz.

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