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Offensive struggles, miscues lead to another Reds loss

The Cincinnati Reds fell to their fourth straight loss and sixth loss in the last eight games in perhaps the season’s most crucial stretch of games against divisional opponents, falling tonight to the Brewers, 3-2. With the Reds trailing Milwaukee by that score in the top of the fifth, they loaded the bases with nobody out. Joey Votto looked at a close pitch from Brandon Woodruff for a called strike three. Then, this happened:

A FORCE OUT AT HOME FROM RIGHT FIELD?!?!?

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Freddy Galvis, the runner at third, saw the ball hit by Nick Castellanos headed to right field, thought it might be caught, so he tagged up in the event he was sent home on a sacrifice fly by third base coach J.