(LEARFIELD) – Milwaukee Brewers rookie Brandon Sproat held the Cincinnati Reds without a hit for five innings and completed six shutout frames in a 2-0 win Tuesday night at Graet American Ballpark in Cincinnati.
That gave Milwaukee a series win at Great American Ballpark for a ninth straight time.
It was also the second game in a row that Cincinnati was held to just two hits.
Jake Bauers and Andrew Vaughn knocked in the Brewers’ two runs.
Bauers hit a triple in the sixth inning to score Vaughn with the first run and Vaughn hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to score Brice Turang.
Sproat got the win by allowing only one hit and striking out a career-high 10 batters.
Brewers manager Pat Murphy talked about Sproat.
And had this to say about Sproat’s stuff.
What did Sproat have to say on his start?
Aaron Ashby, Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill each pitched a scoreless inning of relief with Megill picking up his 10th save of the season.
Shane Drohan starts the final game of the series tonight.
Drohan is 3-2 with a 3.40 ERA.
Cincinnati will counter with Rhett Lowder who is 3-4 with 4.82 ERA.
The game can be heard beginning with the pre-game show at 5:35 p.m. on 97.5 and 1360 WTAQ.
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