CINCINNATI — Kolten Wong hit a career-high three homers and drove in 5 runs, serving to Brandon Woodruff and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-1 on Thursday night time.
Wong hit a two-run drive within the second inning towards Hunter Greene. He hit one other two-run shot within the sixth off Dauri Moreta and a solo drive within the eighth towards Joel Kuhnel.
Wong has a career-high 15 homers on the season.
“I’m positively not a man who hits three house runs fairly often,” Wong mentioned. “I’ve had an opportunity to do it a few instances, however I attempted to do an excessive amount of. I simply tried to not do an excessive amount of and maintain my swing tight.”
Milwaukee completed with simply 4 hits, however every of Wong’s first two homers occurred after leadoff walks.
“We had 4 hits,” supervisor Craig Counsell mentioned. “Kolton had three, and all three have been house runs. That was fairly unimaginable. He was positively a one-man present on offense.”
The second-place Brewers (80-70) opened a four-game set towards lowly Cincinnati with their second straight win. They remained 2 1/2 video games again of Philadelphia for the third NL wild card.
Woodruff (12-4) struck out 11 in six innings. He allowed three hits and walked two.
The 6-foot-4 right-hander has 32 strikeouts in his final three begins — all wins. He has struck out 11 or extra batters in three of his 4 begins towards the Reds this season.
“I feel it begins with rhythm and timing — easy stuff,” Woodruff mentioned. “I’m persistently getting forward extra. I’m attempting to get them to swing early.”
Counsell sees the right-hander rounding into kind after lacking most of June with accidents to his proper ankle and fingers.
“He’s been getting higher,” Counsell mentioned. “When he got here again from the harm, he was good, however now he’s even higher at a great time for us.”
Kyle Farmer hit his thirteenth homer within the sixth to account for Cincinnati’s solely run. Greene (4-13) struck out eight in 5 innings.
The NL Central matchup drew a crowd of 9,889, the sixth underneath 10,000 this season at Nice American Ball Park.
After throwing 47 pitches at the least 100 miles per hour in a 1-0 loss at St. Louis on Saturday, Greene reached triple figures 15 instances towards Milwaukee, in keeping with Statcast.
“I felt strong,” Greene mentioned. “I felt actually good. These walks harm me. It’s a great hitting workforce. It's all the time a battle after I face these guys. They're fairly good at hitting errors. There have been instances after I pulled off. I attempted to raise a fastball to Wong. It sort of leaked over the plate a little bit bit.”
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