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

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 in a 3-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.

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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 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.

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David Hackworthy of Falcon Heights rolls a wheel during a league game of Feather Bowling at Pryes Brewing in Minneapolis on Tuesday. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune)