Scoreless streak over for Reds; Brewers clinging to lead still. Thirty five innings later, the Reds have put a number beside zero on the board. Cincinnati's scoreless streak came

Brice Turang hit a two-run homer, Tyler Alexander struck out six in 5 2/3 hitless innings for his first victory of the season and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on Friday night.

Turang went 1-for-3 with a strikeout in Thursday's 1-0 win over the Reds. While Turang has started each of Milwaukee's first seven games at second base, he's now hit ninth in the batting order four times so far this season.

Bat makers are bracing for the newest obsession to become a fixture in baseball. “The torpedoes are here to stay,”

Alex Bregman, Kristian Campbell and Triston Casas all hit two-run homers, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-4 to take two of three in the series

The Los Angeles Dodgers have an air of invincibility around them after becoming the only reigning champions to start an MLB season 8-0 despite not yet playing their best baseball.

Stop digging and start scoring. That is the only way the Reds can climb out of their early-season offensive hole. That first step upward finally happened on Friday.

In his first start with the Brewers, lefty Tyler Alexander carved up the Reds in a 12-pitch first inning in which he struck out two. After TJ Friedl hit a warning-track flyout to open the game, Alexander got Spencer Steer to swing through a cutter and capped the inning off with a three-pitch punch out of Elly De La Cruz.

The Cincinnati Reds will be out to avoid a major league record when they face the host Milwaukee Brewers on Friday in the second contest of the four-game series.