Milwaukee, WI - Mark Reynolds hit a three-run homer with two outs in the eighth to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-2, in the third installment of a four-game series at Miller Park.
Scott Hairston and Chris Snyder added an RBI each for Arizona, which snapped a three-game losing streak. Former Brewer Doug Davis pitched six quality innings, allowing two runs on three hits. Tony Pena (4-2) got the win after two innings of one-hit ball, while Jose Valverde struck out the side in the ninth to record his career-best 28th save.
Kevin Mench hit a two-run home run for the Brewers, who had a four-game winning streak halted. Chris Capuano got the start and allowed two runs over seven frames. Grant Balfour (0-1) made his Brewers debut and first major- league appearance since 2004, and surrendered the homer to take the loss.
With the game knotted at 2-2 in the eighth, Balfour hit Eric Byrnes with a pitch with two outs to keep the inning alive. Byrnes swiped second before Conor Jackson walked, setting the stage for Reynolds.
Reynolds turned on Balfour’s fastball and launched it well over the wall in left-center to put his team up 5-2.
Pena and Valverde shut the door from there to keep the Arizona lead intact.
Arizona opened up the scoring in the fourth with a pair of runs. With runners on first and second and two out, Hairston singled to center to score Byrnes. Snyder stepped in next and hit a single of his own to plate Reynolds for a 2-0 lead.
The Brewers stormed right back with two runs of their own to tie the game. That was all courtesy of Mench, who belted a homer to left with a man on and one out.
Game Notes
With a Cubs win earlier in the day, Milwaukee’s lead in the NL Central was sliced to 3 1/2 games…Capuano hasn’t won since hurling eight shutout innings against Washington at Miller Park on May 7. In his previous nine trips to the mound prior to Wednesday, he went 0-6 with a 7.74 earned run average…Milwaukee and Arizona are meeting for the first time since splitting six games last season…Arizona lost their previous seven road games.
