And so, the Cincinnati Reds followed up their most exciting and improbable victory one night with a botched 7-4 loss to the Miami Marlins on Wednesday – the first road loss of the Reds’ young season after winning their first five games of this maiden trip.
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Veteran right-hander Brady Singer did not get out of the third inning of this one, allowing 10 hits and six runs (five earned) before giving way to reliever Sam Moll with two out and one on base in the third.
It was his worst start since allowing seven runs in 2 1/3 innings against the Nationals in Washington on July 21.
By then, he had also committed the Reds’ first two errors of the season, on missed interception attempts in the first and second innings, all after the lineup gave him a 2-0 lead before he took the mound.
If there was a silver lining to the night, it might have been local slugger Sal Stewart continuing his big week in his first major league trip to Miami since debuting last September.
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Stewart will not be staying at home while in Miami. But he’s been living in the heads of many Marlins pitchers since he came to town, with between 100 and 200 family and friends in attendance all week.
In this one, he reached on an error and scored in the first, doubled in the third and hit a two-run homer in the fifth that cut the Marlins’ lead to 6-4 at the time.
Connor Norby homered off Connor Phillips in the seventh to extend the lead to three.
The Reds’ five-game winning streak, which matched last season’s longest, had led them to an 8-3 start entering Wednesday, their best 11-game season start since the 1990 World Series champions finished 9-2.
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The Reds brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning before another late comeback fell short.
This article originally appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer: Reds SP Brady Singer flinched as Marlins snapped Cincinnati’s winning streak