To mark the second half of the season, the Brewers extended their division lead to five games over the second-place Cincinnati Reds. It happened with a 11-6 comeback win.
By the fourth inning, it looked like the game was headed the way of the last three in the strange seven game series between the Brewers and Reds, interrupted only by the Midsummer Classic that hosted five Brewers last weekend.
Adrian Houser scuffled and battled plenty of base path traffic, failing to elicit the easy grounders characteristic of his better performances. Houser and the Crew managed the surging Red’s lineup well considering Houser only garnered one strikeout and wasn’t getting groundballs.