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- Updated: July 30, 2016
SAN DIEGO — The Reds shut out the Padres 6-0 Friday night, and ended San Diego’s 25-game home run streak in the process, thanks to a six-inning start from Brandon Finnegan followed by three scoreless innings from Michael Lorenzen and Blake Wood.
The shutout was just the third of the season for the Reds, who also blanked the Padres on June 26 — just one game before San Diego started its NL-tying streak of consecutive games with a homer.
It’s ironic that Cincinnati is the team to bookend a home run stretch of this nature, given that the Reds have allowed 170 home runs this season (the most in the Majors) and are on pace to shatter the single-season record of 241 homers allowed, held by the 1996 Tigers.
“I was aware of it,” said Reds manager Bryan Price of the streak. “I didn’t think about it until you just said it right there. It’s been a national story. It’s not just a local story.”
The Padres haven’t thought …
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