Now they know how the other half live. Aroldis Chapman gave up back-to-back home runs to Erik Kratz and Freddy Galvis for a 3-2 Reds loss to the Phillies on Sunday.

“Rarely do you see back-to-back homers [to end a game],” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “We were thinking Galvis has power from the left side. We were thinking Kratz was really the only guy that could hurt you at the bottom of the order. I guess it shows that anybody with a bat is dangerous. That’s a tough one to lose.”

Kratz said he was ready for whatever Chapman was bringing.

“I look forward for the chance to face anybody,” Kratz said. “We’ve done a good job in this series of coming in against their bullpen and tacking on runs or adding to runs and I think any time we’ve been faced with a challenge like that as a team, we’ve stepped up. He’s just another example of that. So yeah, you definitely look forward to facing somebody who’s going to come after you and he definitely did.”

That’s back-to-back blown saves for Chapman after he notched eight in a row to start the season. Add to that the three runs and four hits he gave up to the Cubs in a non-save situation on May 3.

Could this be the start of a funk? You remember June of last season? That month he had a 6.97 ERA with one loss and three blown saves, including back-to-back blown saves. After that, he went back to invincible mode and blew only one more save the rest of the season and saved 38 overall.

Something to keep any eye on perhaps…

“I don’t see any problem,” Chapman said through translator Tomas Vera. “I’ve been hit. Everybody gets hit, why not me? I’m going to get hit as well.”

Much more on this finale will be posted on MLB.com shortly. Click here to read. It includes a stroll down memory lane at Citizens Bank Park that isn’t very pleasant. The Reds haven’t won a series here since 2006.

Notes:

*With six of the nine games of the road trip complete, the Reds rotation is 3-0 with a 1.44 ERA.

*The pitching staff had a stretch of 16 scoreless innings against the Phillies, which ended in the eighth when Sean Marshall gave up a two-out single to his first batter Chase Utley.

*Jay Bruce remains on fire. Leading off the top of the second inning against Jonathan Pettibone, Bruce hit a 2-1 pitch for a home run to center field. His fifth homer of the season, it extended his season-high hitting streak to 10 games and 15 of the last 16 games. Bruce is 16-for-41 (.390) during the streak with four homers and 12 RBIs.

*Joey Votto had two more hits to extend his hitting streak to eight. Votto’s double play in the third ended a streak of eight-straight plate appearances where he reached safely.

Choo 8
Cozart 6 Izturis 6
Votto 3
Phillips 4
Bruce 9
Frazier 5
Paul 7
Hanigan 2
Bailey 1

*Zack Cozart was scratched because he is sick today.

A Reds roster move has yet to be announced but 3B/1B Neftali Soto is in the clubhouse on Saturday. He has been called up from Triple-A Louisville.

Soto is batting .269/.310/.388 with three homers and 16 RBIs in 33 games. He has played 18 games at first base but has been developing his skills as a third baseman, where he’s played 16 games.

I will have more with Soto later. To read my MLB.com notebook on him, click here.

Soto will wear No. 50.

With LHP Tony Cingrani not getting another turn in the rotation after pitching Friday, he is likely to be optioned to Louisville.

It was a mostly impressive six starts in the Majors for Cingrani, who was 2-0 with a 3.27 ERA, nine walks and 41 strikeouts.

Choo 8
Cozart 6
Votto 3
Phillips 4
Bruce 9
Frazier 5
Lutz 7
Hanigan 2
Arroyo 1

That would seem to indicate that tonight could be Tony Cingrani’s last start in the Majors for a little while.

Johnny Cueto is coming off of the DL and pitching on Monday at New York, with Leake now stationed between him and Latos. There was no specific effort to split up Cueto and Latos in the order.

“It’s when Johnny was ready and we had to re-tweak the rotation as it was because of Cingrani needing the extra day,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “That kind of changed everything. A lot of times you have a reason but this is for no particular reason. [Monday] is Johnny’s day to pitch.”

During my off days, I saw the the quotes from Baker that he never viewed the situation as Leake vs. Cingrani, and said that Leake wasn’t pitching for his job. But Leake certainly helped his own cause by posting a 2.79 ERA in his last three starts since that three-inning bad outing.

Choo 8
Cozart 6
Votto 3
Phillips 4
Bruce 9
Frazier 5
Mesoraco 2
Robinson 7
Cingrani 1

*The Reds, which swept three games from the Phillies last month at GABP, haven’t taken four in a row from the Phils since 1999.

*Last night’s win at MIA was Dusty Baker’s 444th in Cincinnati, which put him past Fred Hutchinson for fourth place on the club’s all-time list.

*Joey Votto is hitting .429 (9-for-21, 1 double, 4 RBIs, 5 R) over his 5-game hitting streak. Lifetime vs. Phillies starter Cliff Lee, Votto is 7-for-16 (.438) with one homer and 4 RBIs.

*Todd Frazier is 0-for-13 in his last 3 games.

It’s a live interactive web program where fans can ask Latos questions via web cam or on Twitter.

Click here for more details:

http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/social_media/chatting_cage.jsp

Have a good few days.

At Miami

Tues: RHP Homer Bailey
Weds: RHP Mike Leake
Thur: RHP Mat Latos

At Philadelphia

Fri: LHP Tony Cingrani
Sat: RHP Bronson Arroyo
Sun: RHP Homer Bailey

Essentially, Latos and Cingrani have flip-flopped spots. Latos then stays on regular rest.

I had been thinking that Johnny Cueto, who is throwing in a rehab assignment game on Tuesday at Class A Dayton, could return as soon as Sunday vs. the Phillies. At least according to this schedule, that will not apparently happen that way. It makes me wonder, however, if Cueto will eventually go into Leake’s spot since that would put him back in front of Latos like it was to begin the season. I guess we shall soon find out. Cueto has to successfully get through his second start at Dayton first.

So in my pre-game notebook, I wrote how the Reds had gone nine-straight games without a quality start from the rotation (at 6 ip, no more than 3 ER allowed). Well, Bronson Arroyo put an end to that.

Arroyo looked pretty good in a 5-1 win with 6 2/3 ip, 5 H, 1 BB, 5 K. He threw only 87 pitches before giving way in the seventh after hit Logan Schafer with a two-out pitch and gave up a Rickie Weeks single.

“He wasn’t feeling very well,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said. “He said all game it was a struggle for him, but this guy has big guts. He’ll give you what he has. He told us to keep an eye on him because he was about out of gas even though he didn’t have many pitches.”

Arroyo still snapped a three-game losing streak for his first victory since April 15.

“I didn’t have a whole lot of stuff,” Arroyo said. “I was grinding from inning one. Eighty-six, 87 [mph] was the top end for me. The wind was blowing at my back down on the field and up top it was blowing out. It’s a terrible mix for me because you can’t make the ball move down on the field. But if they hit it, it’s going to take off.”

“I was laboring every inning. It probably didn’t look like that. After the 6th, I told them those 65 pitches felt like 90 and to just be aware of that to have somebody ready to go. I knew I was getting away with some pitches I normally wouldn’t and that game could get out of hand quicker than you thought.”

Sam LeCure replaced Arroyo and got the strikeout to escape.

Post-game notes:

*I cover the story of the day, Donald Lutz, on MLB.com/Reds.com. Click here to read that version.

*Reds batters hit .283 and slugged .465 in the three-game sweep of the Brewers.

*Catcher Ryan Hanigan threw out Jean Segura trying to steal in the first inning. Hanigan has caught 5 of 6 runners attempting to steal this season.

*The Reds are a season-high six games over .500 at 22-16.

*Entering the season, I thought the Brewers would at least be a factor in the NL Central this season because of their lineup and improved bullpen…and maybe they still will be around down the stretch. But I’m doubting that at this point. They’ve now lost 12 of their last 16 games, nine of 10 and are 15-20 overall. They’ve lost eight in a row to NL Central opponents. Not only was their starting pitching pretty weak, their defense was poor. It wasn’t just the errors but the balls the players didn’t get to. If there is a saving hope, it’s shortstop Jean Segura. That guy can really hit. He was 8-for-12 in the series with two homers, two RBIs and four runs scored.