Chase Burns Deals as Cincinnati Reds Beat Misiorowski, Brewers

The Cincinnati Reds finally solved the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday afternoon, riding three home runs and six strong innings from Chase Burns to a 7-2 win at American Family Field. The victory salvaged the finale of a four-game series and was Cincinnati’s first over Milwaukee in seven meetings this season.

Dropping the first three games of the set by scores of 5-3, 7-2 and 4-2, the Reds arrived at Thursday’s day game needing a win to avoid a sweep. They got one in front of 41,390, finishing with 11 hits to Milwaukee’s four.

Burns earned his 10th win of the season, working six innings and allowing two runs on four hits with two walks and four strikeouts on 89 pitches. The 23-year-old right-hander improved to 10-1, and through Thursday afternoon his 10 wins sat tied with Cristopher Sanchez and Justin Wrobleski for the second-most in MLB, behind only Milwaukee’s Aaron Ashby at 12.

Selected No. 2 overall by Cincinnati out of Wake Forest in 2024, Burns made his MLB debut against the New York Yankees on June 24, 2025. Through 17 starts this season, he owns a 2.40 ERA and a 1.08 WHIP with 116 strikeouts in 97.2 innings.

Sal Stewart got things started in the first inning, turning around a 102.3-mph Jacob Misiorowski fastball for a solo homer and a 1-0 lead. It was Stewart’s 17th of the season, and through Thursday he is batting .257 with 60 RBIs in 86 games.

Cincinnati broke the game open with four runs in the fourth, a rally that began when Jake Bauers made an error on a bunt. Noelvi Marte singled home a run to make it 2-0 before Jose Trevino delivered a three-run homer that stretched the lead to 5-0.

The homer was Trevino’s first of the season and his first overall since June 8, 2025, and it barely got out to left field with an expected batting average of just .090 off the bat. Trevino finished 3-for-4 with three RBIs.

Misiorowski fell to 9-4 despite striking out 10 without a walk over five innings, as four of the five runs charged to him were unearned. He allowed five hits on 82 pitches.

Garrett Mitchell put Milwaukee on the board with a solo homer in the fifth, his seventh of the season, and Brice Turang’s RBI double in the sixth cut the deficit to 5-2.

TJ Friedl answered in the seventh with a solo shot to right-center, his third of the year, then added an RBI single in the eighth to cap the scoring. He finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs.

Entering Thursday, Cincinnati sat in last place in the NL Central at 40-46, 13 1/2 games behind first-place Milwaukee. The win moved the Reds to 41-46, while the Brewers fell to 53-33.

The Reds now return home to open a holiday-weekend series against the Baltimore Orioles on Friday, July 3.