Mets waste Reyes' cycle

Brandon Phillips didn't know which pitch was coming from Mets closer Billy Wagner. He did know he was going to strike out if it was another high fastball.

Phillips instead got a pitch he could handle, driving a two-run single into center field to help the Cincinnati Reds overcome Jose Reyes' cycle in a 6-5 victory on Wednesday night in New York.

Wagner retired the first two batters easily but then walked Austin Kearns and pinch-hitter David Ross. Pinch-hitter Rich Aurilia reached on an infield single to third and Phillips followed with a sharp single to center.

"I just tried to hit the ball hard and drive it somewhere," Phillips said. "He threw me a fastball inside, a pitch high, another pitch high. If he threw me one more time a high pitch, I would've struck out."

Phillips took a strike, fouled one off and took another strike before he hit a lower fastball back up the middle to drive in Kearns and pinch-runner Quinton McCracken, putting the Reds in front 6-5. Wagner (3-1) blew his fourth save in 18 opportunities.

"I got two quick outs and then just tried to be aggressive and I was probably a little overly aggressive," he said. "By the time I got back into synch, it was too late. I couldn't make the pitch."

Reyes hit his fourth career leadoff homer to extend his hitting streak to nine games. He doubled in the second, tripled into right-center in the fifth and grounded a single into center field in the ninth.

INTERLEAGUE

BREWERS 4, TIGERS 3: At Milwaukee, Rickie Weeks' two-run homer with two outs in the seventh inning helped Milwaukee snap the Tigers' six-game winning streak. Detroit starter Nate Robertson gave up three runs — two earned — in 6 2/3 innings before giving up a pinch-hit single to Chris Barnwell , his first major league hit.

ANGELS 6, GIANTS 3: At San Francisco, Maicer Izturis hit a tiebreaking, three-run double in the eighth inning, and Los Angeles avoided a three-game sweep by San Francisco. Juan Rivera hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the sixth but the Giants tied it the next inning.

RED SOX 9, NATIONALS 3: At Boston, Jon Lester struck out 10 in six innings in his third major league game, David Ortiz hit a grand slam and the Red Sox won their sixth straight. Lester, Boston's top pitching prospect when he joined the team on June 10, allowed three hits and two walks.