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Milwaukee — At least some in the Reds dugout noticed the display on the American Family Field scoreboard Monday as catcher Eli de la Cruz.
But de la Cruz was not one of them.
“No, I haven’t heard yet,” De la Cruz said through interpreter Jorge Merlos after losing 3-2 to the Brewers.
After Joey Wimmer stole De La Cruz’s home run off Monday, American Family Field scoreboard operators decided to have some fun at the Reds’ rookie expense.
When he came to bat two runs later, the scoreboard offered some tongue-in-cheek trivia. It read, “Almost hit a home run in the first inning…but didn’t.”
“Interesting,” De la Cruz said after the game when a reporter relayed the message.
De La Cruz didn’t have much time to look at the scoreboard while that scoreboard came up. He smashed a 456-foot, two-out homer off Colin Rea’s first pitch, a blast that flew 113.7 mph over the white Toyota Sequoia in right center field.
Looks like he has an answer for phishing.
“Something like that, I think,” said de la Cruz. “But I’m just trying to do my job to get something done.”
Homer even left the stadium all together, flying through one of the open window panes. It was his sixth as a major league starter, but his second longest—just the latest example of the amazing tools he’s displayed since Cincinnati promoted him to the major leagues last month.
“Which Homer didn’t hit Ellie over 400 feet?” said Graham Ashcraft, writer on Monday. “His vision, especially with what they put on the board just before he went up [to hit]Well, it was a great moment.
“It’s been so cool to just see a player of the caliber he is and how he continues to grow and build. He’s so young. After a year or two in the league, just to see what a player he becomes, it’s going to be exciting to watch and be a part of.”
A homer put the Reds ahead 2-1 in the third, but the Brewers eventually won on Christian Yelich’s ninth-inning single.
It was the Reds’ last close loss to the Brewers, who are neck and neck in the National League Central standings. Cincinnati, now 2-9 against Milwaukee, has fallen five straight against them — all in the past two weeks or so — in four of the past five games by just one run.
“It’s very close,” said de la Cruz. “I don’t know what’s up with this team. But you always get nervous, or you always feel like it’s getting tight at the end. They’re a really good team.”
“It’s tough,” Ashcraft said. “They are all really close games. They were all one-play games. The only thing we can do is keep playing the best way we can. If we can keep doing that, things will eventually go in the right direction for us.”
Ashcraft threw 5 1/3 innings, allowed two runs on five hits and four walks and struck out eight, tying a career high. He walked Yelich, who later scored to give the Brewers the first lead of the game, but generally worked in and out of traffic on multiple occasions.
Five Reds relievers combined on 2nd and 3 innings, with the only run coming from Alexis Diaz, whose ninth inning leadoff lead came to Blake Perkins to score on Yelich’s single.
“He was and always will be important to strike and attack,” said manager David Bell. “But man, it’s hard to say anything but positive things about the job our chief has done overall, including tonight, against a team that doesn’t chase.”
Before Monday’s game, Bell acknowledged that this week’s series is big for both teams. It is the last time they will compete in the regular season. That is, each side would have no more direct shots to influence the other side’s standing in the division.
Of course, there are also more than two months left in the season, and even without any head-to-head, things are far from settled.
“Great games,” said Bell. “We’ve come up short. We have two left, and that’s our focus. We have a long way to go. We have two more games against this team.
“The main thing for us is to keep doing what we’ve been doing and staying confident, staying together.”