Christian Yelich continued his torrid start to the season with a two-run homer in the first inning and Wade Miley had a successful start against his former team to lead the visiting Milwaukee Brewers past the Cincinnati Reds 7-2 on Wednesday night.
After a rain delay of 1 hour, 50 minutes, Hunter Greene took the mound for Cincinnati and walked leadoff batter Jackson Chourio. One out later, Yelich drilled a hanging slider from the Cincinnati starter into the seats in right field to give Milwaukee a 2-0 lead.
Elly De La Cruz was 2-for-3 with his third homer of the season for Cincinnati, which lost consecutive games for the first time this season.
Yelich has five homers and 11 RBIs in 10 games this season and extended his on-base streak to 22 games with the homer.
Miley, who returned from left shoulder impingement, didn't give up a hit through his first three innings, throwing just 35 pitches and walking one. He appeared to be on his way to another hitless inning, retiring the first two batters of the fourth on seven pitches.
But Miley walked Christian Encarnacion-Strand on five pitches and then hit Jeimer Candelario with a pitch. Stuart Fairchild followed with a single to center to score Encarnacion-Strand but Candelario was thrown out trying to advance to third, ending the inning.
Miley was removed after the fourth inning and did not qualify for the win. Right-handed reliever Bryse Wilson (1-0) started the fifth and threw three innings, allowing three hits and a run to earn the win.
De La Cruz opened the fifth with a line-drive homer to left-center field off Wilson to extend his on-base streak to 17 games, including all 12 this season.
Greene (0-1) was inconsistent in the first two innings and took the loss for the Reds. Greene hit a batter, walked another and allowed the two-run homer in surrendering five runs in the first two innings as Milwaukee took an early 5-0 lead.
Greene completed six innings, allowing six hits, seven runs -- six earned -- striking out nine and walking one.
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