"That's a hard one," Reds manager Terry Francona said. "You could see he really tried to amp up because that was probably the only way you were going to get him. That made it really tough for Spence to try to knock it down. That was a really difficult play."

The Brewers clinched a 13th consecutive winning series against the Cincinnati Reds who haven't won a series in the rivalry since August 2022.