Hyun-Jin Ryu extends scoreless innings streak to 31 as Dodgers top Reds

CINCINNATI - Hyun-Jin Ryu didn't feel right in the first inning Sunday. His velocity was down. His stuff wasn't crisp. His start began with the kind of battle he had eluded for weeks. The first pitch he threw was smacked to right field for a single. He walked the third batter. It was, by the lofty standard he's set since the calendar flipped to May, a downright struggle. And his scoreless innings streak was in jeopardy.

But the result didn't deviate. Ryu escaped the inning at Great American Ball Park unscathed, thanks to Enrique Hernandez's nifty unassisted