The Cincinnati Reds never lead and they fell to the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Sunday afternoon at Great American Ball Park.
The loss ends the Reds' seven-game winning streak and moves their record to 32-34 on the season. The Reds took three of the four games in the series and won their third straight series.Montas was coming off his best game of the season throwing seven innings of one-hit, no-run baseball at Coors Field against the Rockies. The opposite happened on Sunday when Montas allowed four runs on five hits through 1 1/3 innings. He walked three batters and struck out two. Montas's ERA moves to 4.
Brent Suter and Buck Farmer each added a scoreless inning in relief.Maile has really struggled at the plate this year, hitting only .189 at the plate. However, in the bottom of the third inning, he smoked a ball over the left-field fence for his second home run of the season.Outside of Maile's third-inning home run and an RBI single from Santiago Espinal, the Reds bats were quiet. Cubs starting pitcher Shota Imanaga threw 6 2/3 innings of two-run, five-hit baseball.
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