Brady Singer rocked as Marlins snap Cincinnati Reds 5-game win streak

MIAMI – The team with maybe the best starting rotation in the league had its worst start of the season. The only team in the majors without an error committed two in the first two innings.

And just like that, the Cincinnati Reds followed their most thrilling, unlikeliest victory one night with a 7-4 dud of a loss to the Miami Marlins on Wednesday – the Reds’ first road loss of the young season after winning their first five games of this opening trip.

Veteran right-hander Brady Singer didn’t get out of the third inning of this one, giving up 10 hits and six runs – five earned – before giving way to reliever Sam Moll with two out and one on in the third.

It was his worst start since giving up seven runs in 2 1/3 innings against the Nationals in Washington last July 21.

He’d also committed the Reds’ first two errors of the season by then, on errant pickoff attempts in the first and second innings – all after the lineup staked him to a 2-0 lead before he ever took the mound.

If there was an upside to the night it might have been hometown slugger Sal Stewart continuing his big week in his first big-league trip to Miami since he debuted last September.

Stewart isn’t staying at his house while in Miami. But he’s been living in a lot of Marlins’ pitchers heads since he got to town, with between 100 and 200 family and friends in attendance all week.

In this one, he reached on an error and scored in the first, doubled in the third and hit a two-run homer in the fifth that cut the Marlins’ lead to 6-4 at the time.

Connor Norby homered off Connor Phillips in the seventh to extend the lead back to three.

The Reds’ five-game winning streak, which matched their longest of last season, had pushed them to an 8-3 start before Wednesday – their best 11-game start to a season since the 1990 World Series champs went 9-2.

The Reds brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning before another late rally fell short.

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Reds SP Brady Singer rocked as Marlins snap Cincinnati win streak