Down 13-5 and seemingly buried, the Reds put together a real answer — Juan Brito and Eugenio Suárez each went deep, part of a 4-run 8th inning that pulled Cincinnati within 4 runs and briefly made the finish interesting before Milwaukee's bullpen closed it out.
Chad Patrick picked up the win with 1.1 scoreless innings of relief and Abner Uribe worked the 9th for his 7th save, but the story of Milwaukee's pen was Kyle Harrison — his first relief outing of the stretch went sideways, with all 4 batters he faced reaching and scoring, part of why a laugher briefly turned uncomfortable in the 8th.
This was Milwaukee's second straight rout of Cincinnati and came one day after the Brewers' 20-0 shutout of the same team, a two-day stretch that did more to define the season series than anything from earlier in the month. Cincinnati's rotation and lineup, already picked over by season-ending injuries, had no answer for a Milwaukee offense that scored 13 runs before the 6th inning was over.
None of it changed the shape of these two seasons — Milwaukee is 93-57 and playing like it, while Cincinnati sits well under .500 with its best arm already lost for over a year. The finish, at least, gave the Reds something to build on: a 4-run inning against a bullpen that had looked untouchable for two straight nights, and a lineup that didn't go quietly even after digging an 8-run hole.