Brewers rally for rout, prolong Reds’ woes

MILWAUKEE — Jonathan Lucroy and Aaron Hill combined for three home runs and five RBIs to prolong the Reds’ recent misery, powering the Brewers to a come-from-behind, 9-5 win on Friday at Miller Park.

Cincinnati’s losing streak grew to 11 games despite Adam Duvall’s first-inning, three-run home run off Brewers starter Zach Davies, who won at home for the first time thanks to his team’s biggest offensive outburst in more than two weeks. Six different Brewers tallied multiple hits — including Lucroy, who had all three of his RBIs by the end of the Brewers’ go-ahead, four-run fourth inning, and Hill, who homered leading off consecutive innings in the fourth and the fifth. The Brewers’ four-game winning streak is their longest this season.

The Reds, meanwhile, have been outscored by 50 runs during their 11-game losing streak. Six of the Brewers’ runs were charged to Reds left-hander John Lamb, who was out of the game by the end of the fourth.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDLucroy breaks out: Lucroy was 2-for-22 with one RBI on the Brewers’ just-completed road trip, but he broke the slump on Friday. He lifted a sacrifice fly in the first inning, hit a two-out solo home run in the third and delivered a ground-rule double for another run in the fourth that would have scored two had it not bounced over the fence. Lucroy also contributed behind the plate by throwing out his sixth consecutive would-be basestealer in …

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