The Reds dropped their series opener to the Brewers, 3-2, at Great American Ball Park. A crowd of 18,711 attended as Cincinnati's bats were kept off the scoreboard for the final eight innings of ...

Yeah, that was cool." Reds manager Terry Francona said he was nearly rendered speechless by the late-inning rollercoaster the Reds endured. "I think I threw up in my mouth," Francona said.

Elly De La Cruz snapped a home run drought with a 3-run shot that ignited the Cincinnati Reds in a 13-9 win and that coach Chris Valaika saw coming.