Another start from the struggling Alfredo Simon might not give the Cincinnati Reds a good chance to end the majors' longest current losing streak.

As Simon looks to avoid losing his third straight outing, the visiting Reds attempt to end their 11-game skid Saturday against a Milwaukee Brewers team trying to win its fifth in a row.

After allowing 10 runs and 14 hits in 4 1/3 innings of a 13-1 loss to Cleveland on May 17, Simon (1-5, 10.16 ERA) gave up five with nine hits over five frames of Sunday's 5-4 defeat to Seattle.

''I'm not doing anything different,'' Simon said. ''I have to focus and keep my head up.''

Though manager Bryan Price certainly expects more from Simon, he is still not ready to remove the right-hander from the rotation. Mostly because that rotation has been hampered by injuries and Cincinnati's bullpen owns a major league-worst 6.49 ERA.

''We need the innings out of Simon as a veteran pitcher, and that will happen when he keeps his pitches down," said Price, whose club is mired in its longest slide since dropping 13 in a row late last season.

"In the same respect at some point in time, I have to see him improve and give us those types of innings. He's going to have to get better."

Simon's longest 2016 outing came May 5 when he gave up a two-run homer to Alex Presley and one other run in 7 2/3 innings of a 9-5 victory over Milwaukee.

Five of the seven runs Chase Anderson (2-6, 5.33) yielded over five innings of that contest came off home runs by Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce. The right-hander allowed one run over 20 2/3 innings while going 2-0 in his first three starts against the Reds (15-33).

Anderson gave up his team-leading 12th homer Sunday and two other runs in five innings of a 3-1 loss to the New York Mets. It came five days after he took a no-hitter into the eighth inning, allowed two runs and came one out from a complete game against the Chicago Cubs.

''Obviously, it's not where I want to be after pitching well last time," he said. "But I feel like I'm still building to get back on track and I feel like I'm getting to where I want to go."

In the midst of their longest winning streak of 2016, the Brewers (22-26) got three hits and two RBIs each from Jonathan Villar and Aaron Hill in Friday's 9-7 victory.

Hill, who homered twice, has five hits in the last two contests and is 10 for 21 with five home runs and 10 RBIs in five games against the Reds this season. He went 2 for 3 against Simon this month.

''It's not anything about who you're playing," Hill said. "It's sticking with the process of your work ethic."

Villar is batting .377 in 17 games and has five RBIs in the last three.

With a three-run, first-inning homer Friday, three of the four hits in Adam Duvall's last 17 at-bats for Cincinnati have left the park. Three of his 10 home runs and seven RBIs have come in five games against Milwaukee this season.