For a second straight week, the Reds got to the Phillies’ Cole Hamels, and they took the series opener, 6-4, on Monday night from Great American Ball Park.
The Reds’ put up five runs — all earned — off eight hits in six innings against Hamels to snap a career-best streak of six consecutive starts of at least seven innings pitched with two earned runs or fewer. This is also Hamels’ first loss in 15 career starts against the Reds, having entered the evening 10-0 with a 1.45 ERA against them.
“I made some good pitches,” Hamels said. “I hung a few pitches here and there. It’s Major League Baseball. You’re not going to have the best luck all the time. You have to battle. We were able to score a few runs. I just wasn’t able to hold them down.”
Reds starter Mike Leake carried a no-hitter for 6 2/3 innings last week against the Phillies but was not sharp in this one. Despite picking up his third win of the season, Leake gave up three runs — two earned — off 10 hits in six innings.
“Mike did a terrific job, especially [with runners on] second and third, nobody out,” Reds manager Bryan Price said of the jam Leake escaped in the sixth. “To get out of that with a big strikeout of [Freddy] Galvis, the intentional walk, then getting Hamels and [Ben] Revere was terrific.”
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