Is Reds Roster Built to Beat Brewers, Win NL Central? Is the Reds roster constructed in a way that they can beat the Brewers, who have won the last two NL Central titles?

"They seem to have our number," Spencer Steer said after Sunday's 8-2 loss. The Brewers haven't lost a series to the Reds since August 2022.

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

The Milwaukee Brewers go for a series win against the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday afternoon at American Family Field. Time: 1:10 p.m. CT

After being acquired at the trade deadline last season, Frankie Montas went from throwing 67.3% fastballs to 76.7%, largely eschewing his best whiff pitch, his splitter, in the process. Aaron Civale went from 62.6% to 70.1%.

TJ Friedl went 4 for 5 and hit one of Cincinnati’s four homers off Elvin Rodríguez as the Reds’ lineup finally awoke in an 11-7 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

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.

Jackson Chourio belted a pair of home runs and matched a career high with five RBIs to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-2 rout of the visiting Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.

Nestor Cortes fires six shutout innings, and Sal Frelick drives in the game's only run with a two-out single in the fourth to give the Brewers a 1-0 win.

The Milwaukee Brewers placed left-hander Nestor Cortes on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a flexor strain in his left elbow, further depleting the team's starting pitching. The loss of Cortes leaves the Brewers with Freddy Peralta as the only healthy pitcher among those projected to be in the five-man rotation this season.