MILWAUKEE -- With a sweep of a stumbling division rival, the Brewers appeared to have steadied their own midsummer swoon.Kyle Lohse pitched into the seventh inning and scored his team's first run, Mark Reynolds hit a pair of home runs and the Brewers bolstered their position atop the National League Central with a 5-1 win over the reeling Reds at Miller Park on Wednesday. 
The Brewers swept a series for the fifth time this season and won for the fifth time in seven games after losing 11 of the previous 12. The Reds finished an 0-6 road trip and fell 5 1/2 games off the Brewers' pace.Lohse did his best work on the mound, pitching into the seventh inning for the third consecutive start and holding the Reds to one run on four hits in 6 2/3 innings, with an assist from left-handed reliever Zach Duke to preserve the Brewers' 4-1 lead in the seventh.Lohse also contributed at the plate with a fifth-inning single off Cincinnati's Mike Leake that sparked the Brewers' first scoring rally. Speedster Carlos Gomez followed with a triple that bounced past diving Reds right fielder Jay Bruce, and Lohse scored the tying run all the way from first base with a somewhat awkward slide into home. Gomez scored two batters later when Ryan Braun beat out a two-out infield single.Reynolds padded the lead in the sixth with a two-run home run before adding insurance with a solo shot in the eighth, part of a three-hit afternoon. The long balls were Reynolds' first since July 8 and his second and third since June 2, before he slipped into the longest power outage of his career.Leake took the loss after yielding four runs on 11 hits in six innings.Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
The Brewers swept a series for the fifth time this season and won for the fifth time in seven games after losing 11 of the previous 12. The Reds finished an 0-6 road trip and fell 5 1/2 games off the Brewers' pace.Lohse did his best work on the mound, pitching into the seventh inning for the third consecutive start and holding the Reds to one run on four hits in 6 2/3 innings, with an assist from left-handed reliever Zach Duke to preserve the Brewers' 4-1 lead in the seventh.Lohse also contributed at the plate with a fifth-inning single off Cincinnati's Mike Leake that sparked the Brewers' first scoring rally. Speedster Carlos Gomez followed with a triple that bounced past diving Reds right fielder Jay Bruce, and Lohse scored the tying run all the way from first base with a somewhat awkward slide into home. Gomez scored two batters later when Ryan Braun beat out a two-out infield single.Reynolds padded the lead in the sixth with a two-run home run before adding insurance with a solo shot in the eighth, part of a three-hit afternoon. The long balls were Reynolds' first since July 8 and his second and third since June 2, before he slipped into the longest power outage of his career.Leake took the loss after yielding four runs on 11 hits in six innings.Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
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