For Nestor Cortes and the Brewers, this was more like it. Torpedoed by the Yankees and their unique bats five days earlier in a forgettable Brewers debut, Cortes was in complete command for six innings against slumping Cincinnati on Thursday,

Nestor Cortes had to spent four days sitting around and waiting to redeem himself. And on the fifth day, that's exactly what the Milwaukee Brewers southpaw did. Cortes threw six shutout innings as the Brewers held off the Cincinnati Reds,

Nestor Cortes put his historically bad start against the Yankees in the rear-view mirror by shutting the Reds out over six innings on Thursday night.