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CINCINNATI -- Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell is concerned that some of his Brewers are playing as if the season is already over.Joey Votto homered and drove in two runs, Dan Straily pitched a career-high eight innings and the Cincinnati Reds took advantage of some sloppy Milwaukee fielding for a 6-4 win Tuesday night, their fifth straight victory.The Brewers committed two errors, leading to four unearned runs.We were sloppy again defensively tonight, Counsell said. Frankly, its unacceptable. Its time for us to finish the season. Its 162 games, and its not over. Theres still time for guys to make an impression. These are important games for those guys.Adam Duvall put the Reds ahead for good in the third with the first of his two doubles. The Reds went on to match their longest winning streak of the season.Straily (12-8) pitched around solo home runs by Keon Broxton and Jonathan Villar to improve to 8-2 since the All-Star break. He allowed three hits and two runs with one walk and eight strikeouts and piled up 14 popup or flyball outs.Hes pitching like he does, Counsell said. His fastball is all guts and deception and creates a lot of flyballs. With the number of flyballs he gets, youve got to get them out of the ballpark, especially with runners on base.Tony Cingrani pitched the ninth, allowing Chris Carters 34th homer, a two-run shot. Carter just missed hitting a three-run homer in the sixth, reaching the warning track with two outs.Matt Garza (5-7) allowed five runs, only one earned, in five innings as the Brewers lost for the fourth time in five games.Vottos solo home run in the first inning was his 24th of the season. He has 28 homers and 91 RBI against the Brewers in his career, his top totals versus one opponent.Milwaukee, which went into the game with the major leagues worst fielding percentage, committed errors on Cincinnatis first two batters of the third. Garza hit Eugenio Suarez with one out to load the bases and Votto tied it at 2 with a single before Duvall hit a two-run double.We made it very hard on Matt, Counsell said. He had to get five outs and get through Votto. Those plays bring up the part of the lineup you dont want to face.Brandon Phillips then hit a fly ball to right-center field that Kirk Niewenhuis caught while being jostled by Broxton, the center fielder.You just have to pitch, Garza said. Some days the balls find gloves. Some days, they dont. Were a young team and thats where were at. Ive learned that you cant come down on guys and harp on it. For a lot of these guys, this is their first September.Votto scored on the sacrifice fly, but Duvall was thrown out at the plate trying to take advantage of the mini-collision and score from second.NO BLITZINGFormer University of Louisville and Denver Broncos linebacker Tom Jackson, who recently retired after 29 years as an ESPN NFL analyst, threw a ceremonial first pitch. Jackson is a long-time Cincinnati area resident.STAREDOWNBrewers catcher Manny Pina and Reds infielder Hernan Iribarren, a former Brewer, competed to see who could stand with their caps over their hearts the longest after the national anthem. Pina cracked first, with less than a minute before the game started.VERSATILITYCounsell gave Villar his first start as a Brewer at second base. Villar played three games at second base for Houston last season. Ive been thinking about moving him to second base the last three weeks, Counsell said. It is an opportunity to see what it looks like. You will see him mostly at third base the rest of the season.TRAINERS ROOMBrewers: RHP Michael Blazek is scheduled to throw a simulated game in Chicago on Thursday after throwing one on Monday. Blazek hasnt pitched in a game since Aug. 13 after suffering a right forearm strain.Reds: RHP Homer Bailey, who hasnt pitched since Aug. 28 because of right biceps soreness, threw a 44-pitch bullpen session. 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Freeze frames from both these deliveries might illustrate a big difference between the two sides so far.As Ansari completes his action and the ball leaves his hand, Pujara has pushed on to the front foot to both deliveries. With the first, he sees the ball flat and goes back to use the depth of his crease. With the second, he sees the flight and charges out, not letting it pitch. And there is no way to tell from these freeze frames what Pujara is going to do.This is Pujara - or any other accomplished Asian batsman - at his best. Ready to move forward, picking the length early, and then attacking any error from the bowler - be it from the back foot or the front foot. Pujaras use of this movement out of the crease is a return to how he played on debut in Bangalore six years ago, charging out at every opportunity after a shooter had done him in in the first innings. In this series, he has charged out once every 8.5 balls of spin he has faced, scoring close to 15% of his runs against spin by stepping down the wicket.More important, though, is the timing of Pujaras charge. As those two deliveries suggest, he is always on the lookout to go forward, but he is never committed too early or so much that he leaves himself no way to bail out. By contrast, in Mohali, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler gave themselves no second chance and paid with their wickets.Bowling to Stokes, when Ravindra Jadeja is in an identical position to that of Ansari earlier, you know Stokes is coming. You can tell. Its not just the front foot shuffling across a little but also the movement in his upper body. He comes out all right, and is beaten on the outside edge. The difference between the two charges is a fraction of a second, but that premeditation can be lethal against good spinners. Buttler, looking to bat positively, left his crease often, but twice he charged out without reaching the pitch of the ball. The result: he was caught at short cover oncee, and dragged the other intended straight hit into the waiting hands of cow corner.ddddddddddddFor the second time in the series, Moeen left the crease, found himself nowhere close to the pitch of the ball, froze and paid the ultimate price - lbw once, and chipping one to mid-on on another occasion. Moeen is often guilty of leaving the crease with premeditation and then not knowing what to do. His dismissal giving Yasir Shah the charge at Lords is a better known case in point.Now, it is up for debate whether spinners see that movement a fraction of a second too soon even as they are in the process of delivering. The bluff masters that they are, the spinners will tell you they do, but it is fair to assume they dont always spot it. Even if they dont always do, as batsmen you dont want to leave yourselves exposed to those occasions when they adjust and bowl wider or shorter.It doesnt help England that their spinners - apart from Adil Rashid - havent done much with the ball in the air. The Ashwin ball that got Moeen in Mohali dipped on him and drifted appreciably into the pads. Jadeja got Stokes with one that drifted away from his bat. Add Joe Roots dismissal in Visakhapatnam, and England have lost six wickets with batsmen out of the crease; India havent lost even one to a proper charge.Its not as though India batsmen havent ventured out: Pujara and M Vijay in particular have frequently used their feet to reach balls before they turn, but they have been more effective. Their charges have been less premeditated and swift once they do come at the ball. While Pujara has not hit one ball in the air after advancing down the wicket, Vijay has left the crease with the sole intention of hitting over the straight field to get himself a release from the intense concentration his game needs. Even when the batsmen have charged out too soon, there hasnt been much aerial deception from Englands spinners.To leave the crease and take a spinner on is an important tool for a batsman, but England have been doing so a fraction of a second too soon, and against better spinners. ' ' '