The streaking San Francisco Giants will aim to continue their surge up the National League West standings when they visit the suddenly slumping Cincinnati Reds on Monday in the opener of a four-game series.
The Giants enter having won five straight after completing a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with an 8-4 victory on Sunday. They have passed the Arizona Diamondbacks and moved into second place in the division behind the Los Angeles Dodgers."I think that we probably looked at this stretch of the season in March and April as a time that was going to be crucial for us," Giants starting pitcher Alex Cobb said.
In three career games against the Reds, Webb is 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA, allowing no earned runs, and one unearned run, across 13 innings. In his latest outing, on July 6 at Washington, he returned for the third inning after a 1-hour, 43-minute delay. He allowed just one hit and struck out four over three scoreless innings before being removed from the game.
The Milwaukee Brewers slowed that momentum, though, shutting out the Reds on Friday and Saturday before completing the sweep with a 4-3 win on Sunday. Milwaukee defeated Cincinnati in five of the teams' six meetings on either side of the break.
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