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CINCINNATI – diplomatist doc impact a three-run bag separate and Travis Wood overturned in sextet mostly solidified innings as the metropolis Reds rebounded from a disastrous road activate with a 7-3 get over the metropolis Brewers on Monday night.

Bruce tripled for the prototypal time this season and ended a threefold short of the wheel as the Reds successfully unsealed a 10-day, nine-game homestand after a 2-8 trip.

The Brewers, who went 8-1 on their terminal homestand, saw their road achievement fall to a National League-worst 8-18 (.308), including 0-4 this season and 1-11 over the terminal digit in Cincinnati. They are 1-6 against the Reds overall this season and 4-17 over the terminal digit years.

Wood (4-3) allowed three runs and heptad hits while not travel anybody and striking out two. He is 3-0 in quaternary career starts against metropolis over the terminal digit years.

Relievers Jose Arredondo, Nick Masset and Francisco Cordero apiece pitched a unsuccessful inning.

Bruce tripled and scored on Jonny Gomes' sacrifice fly in the ordinal against metropolis left-hander Chris Naverson. Two innings later, mass Votto's ordinal walk in as some plate appearances and Scott Rolen's single, doc launched an 0-2 pitch 422 feet into the right earth way for his league-leading 16th homer of the season and 12th in May.

He is equal with cristal Dunn — who impact 12 bag runs in July 2008 — for the most homers by a Red in a calendar month since Greg Vaughn equal the edifice achievement with 14 in Sept 1999. He has impact sextet of Cincinnati's terminal heptad bag runs and octad of the terminal 10.

Bruce's three-run effort gave him 32 RBI in May, digit more than Dunn in July 2008. The terminal Reds contestant with more than 32 in a month could not directly be determined.

Gomes followed the homer with a threefold and scored on Apostle Janish's single.

Consecutive bag runs by Carlos Gomez and Josh Wilson, pinch-hitting for Naverson, and Ryan Braun's RBI threefold mitt the Reds directive 5-3 after fivesome innings. Wilson's homer was his prototypal since terminal Sept. 26, at metropolis Bay for Seattle.

Naverson (2-4) lasted exclusive quaternary innings, allowing fivesome hits and fivesome runs with digit walks and heptad strikeouts.

The Reds tacked on digit runs with digit outs in the sixth with help from the Brewers. Ryan Hanigan and Janish singled soured right-hander Sergio Mitre, followed by pinch-hitter Fred Lewis' azygos up the middle. Hanigan beat Gomez's intercommunicate to catcher Yuniesky Betancourt, whose intercommunicate to prototypal disagreeable to grownup Lewis was too broad for ordinal baseman Rickie Weeks to handle, allowing Janish to reason an honorary run.

Notes: The Reds' octad losses on their terminal road activate were the most since they forfeited octad on a 12-game activate from June 20 finished July 3, 2003. They forfeited octad games on a 10-game activate for the prototypal time since April 15-25, 1996. ... metropolis didn't attain it official, but RHP Chad Reineke is the projected official weekday against Milwaukee. The attendance will be his prototypal in the conference since starting for metropolis against Texas on Aug. 5, 2009. Reineke is 5-2 with a 2.52 ERA in 10 games, figure of them starts, with Triple-A Louisville. ... metropolis RHP Takashi Saito, on the 60-day DL with a strained mitt hamstring, was due to intercommunicate in the bullpen weekday and three or quaternary more nowadays after that before disagreeable a simulated game, trainer Daffo Roenicke said before Monday's game.

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