CINCINNATI -- It wasn't just a missed opportunity for the Reds against the Brewers on Friday.

It was a missed opportunity-palooza on multiple levels.

Cincinnati was handed a 10-8 loss by a Milwaukee club that not only has baseball's best record but now also owns a franchise record-tying 13-game winning streak.

The Reds (64-59) had a chance to stop the epic streak, holding an 8-1 lead through two innings, before letting it slip away for one of the season's more difficult losses to absorb.

“At this point, they’re all important," second baseman Gavin Lux said. "I know we all probably feel like we should have won this game. We didn’t play clean enough. We didn’t make enough plays, gave them too many chances and we knew that going into this game that we needed to play clean baseball to

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