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(Sports Network) - Edinson Volquez will make a final tune-up before next week's All-Star Game when the Cincinnati Reds standout leads his team into another matchup with the Milwaukee Brewers from Miller Park.

Volquez earned his first career selection to the Midsummer Classic with a brilliant first half of his debut season with the Reds. The hard-throwing right-hander, acquired by Cincinnati from Texas last December in exchange for fellow All-Star Josh Hamilton, tops all National League hurlers with a 2.36 earned run average and also ranks among the Senior Circuit leaders with 11 wins and 116 strikeouts.

The 25-year-old picked up win No. 11 when he held Washington to three runs over six innings of the Reds' 6-5 victory last Sunday. That effort was a noticeable improvement over Volquez's previous two starts, in which he allowed 10 runs (8 earned) in a combined 9 2/3 innings of work against Toronto and Pittsburgh.

This will be the first career start against Milwaukee for Volquez, who sports a 5-3 record with a 2.29 ERA in 10 road appearances (9 starts) this season.

The Reds claimed the opener of this three-game series with a furious late rally on Friday. Cincinnati scored three times in the seventh inning to tie the contest, then went ahead in the eighth to pull out a 6-5 decision.

Jay Bruce scored the eventual game-winning run on a bases-loaded wild pitch from Brewers reliever Salomon Torres with two outs in the top of the eighth. The rookie outfielder had reached base on a fielding error by Bill Hall, one of two costly defensive mistakes that plagued Milwaukee in the late innings.

The Reds tied the game at 5-5 when Brewers center fielder Mike Cameron misplayed a fly ball off the bat of Jerry Hairston Jr., which enabled Andy Phillips to score from first.

Edwin Encarnacion was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and Bruce scored three times to help Cincinnati win for the sixth time in its last eight games. David Ross contributed a key RBI single in the seventh inning for the Reds.

Mike Lincoln (1-2) tossed a perfect bottom of the seventh to pick up the win, while former Brewer Francisco Cordero delivered a scoreless ninth to notch his 19th save.

Hall had a two-run double and Ryan Braun belted a solo home run in the loss, Milwaukee's second in three games. The Brewers fell a half-game back of fellow NL Central member St. Louis for the lead in the league's wild-card race.

Seth McClung gets the pitching assignment for the Brewers this evening and seeks to end a three-start winless stretch. The right-handed swingman lasted just 4 2/3 innings in his most recent mound trip, a home loss to Colorado on Monday. McClung issued five walks and allowed two runs before being removed after 87 pitches.

The 27-year-old began this season in the Milwaukee bullpen before being inserted into the rotation in late May. In nine 2008 starts, McClung has registered a 4-3 record and a 4.41 ERA.

McClung's only lifetime appearance against the Reds came at Miller Park back on April 9. It wasn't a memorable experience, as he was lit up for five runs and five hits in just two innings.

Cincinnati has now won three of four encounters with the Brewers in Milwaukee this season and owns a 4-3 edge in the season series. Prior to last night's clash, these teams were 20-20 against one another since the start of the 2006 campaign.