In Milwaukee, the Cincinnati Reds broke their 35-inning scoreless drought on Friday evening as Christian Encarnacion-Strand scored TJ Friedl with a sacrifice fly during the eighth inning of their 3-2 defeat against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Jeimer Candelario continued with an RBI double.
The 35-inning scoreless run ranks as the fourth-longest in franchise history, as reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer. The team’s all-time record stands at 45 consecutive innings without allowing a run back in 1941.
The last instance where the Reds recorded at least 35 consecutive scoreless innings occurred between September 8 and September 12, 1946, spanning an impressive stretch of 37 innings without scoring, as reported by Sportradar.
The top streak for successive scoreless frames in Major League Baseball stands at 48, achieved first by the Chicago Cubs between June 15 and June 21, 1968, followed by the Philadelphia Athletics from September 22 to September 26, 1906.
The Reds had lost three straight 1-0 games, a feat last accomplished by the Philadelphia Phillies in May 1960.
It seemed Cincinnati was at risk of suffering their fourth successive shutout, particularly as they went hitless for the first six innings against the Brewers until Gavin Lux managed a single in the seventh inning.
The most recent squad to be blanked in four straight matches was the Kansas City Royals between August 25 and August 28, 2017.
The Reds faced Friday evening's contest without their rookie manager Terry Francona and multiple players who were dispatched back to the team hotel due to illness, though many crucial members still took part in the game. Assistant coach Freddie Benavides stepped up to manage the team instead.
"We're uncertain about the nature of this illness, so we dispatched several team personnel to the hotel along with some players. We hope they will recover by tomorrow," stated Nick Krall, the president of baseball operations, prior to the game.
Krall mentioned that the origin of the illness is still unknown.
Falling victim to three consecutive 1-0 losses has happened just six times throughout Major League Baseball’s history, with four of these occurrences dating back more than a hundred years. No team has ever experienced four straight 1-0 defeats. The Cincinnati Reds' most recent instance of being blanked in four successive games took place way back in 1931.
The other squads to suffer a 1-0 defeat in three successive matches were the Brooklyn Superbas in 1908, followed by the St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators in 1909, with the Pittsburgh Pirates experiencing this streak again in 1917.
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