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CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Solid pitching from Johnny Cueto was all the Cincinnati Reds were looking for on Sunday. His deft work with the bat was a bonus. Cueto pitched six solid innings and drove in a run with a perfect suicide-squeeze in his return to the rotation and Jay Bruce homered to lift the Reds over the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1. Donald Lutz drove in two runs with a pinch-hit single, and Zack Cozart and Joey Votto each had two hits as Cincinnati rebounded after losing 6-0 on Saturday. Cueto, activated from the disabled list Sunday, improved to 4-0 in his seventh start of the season. He allowed five hits and one run with three strikeouts and no walks as the Reds took two of three in the weekend series. Cueto also eased the fears of manager Dusty Baker. "We only had one worry with Johnny Cueto -- was his (shoulder) OK," Baker said. "Other than that, we dont worry about Johnny Cueto." Cueto made his first start since a 6-0 win at Pittsburgh on May 31. He was placed on the disabled list on June 5 for the second time this season because of a strained muscle in his right shoulder. Alfredo Simon allowed two hits and had six strikeouts in three innings of relief for his first save of the season and second in two years with Cincinnati. Simon, who struck out all six batters he faced in a two-inning effort against Atlanta on May 6, struck out the last five batters he faced on Sunday. "My breaking ball and two-seamer were working really good," Simon said. "It was good to give our bullpen a rest." Milwaukee starter Wily Peralta gave up all five Reds runs -- four earned -- in 5 1-3 innings. The slumping Peralta (4-8) fell to 1-6 in his last seven starts. Carlos Gomez hit the first pitch he saw -- and Cuetos seventh pitch -- into the left-field seats for his 12th homer of the season to give Milwaukee a 1-0 lead. "In the first inning, I had too many thoughts," Cueto said through an interpreter. "I was thinking too much. Finally, it was over. When I got to the dugout, Cesar Izturis said, Just do what you normally do. If it breaks again, well fix it." "Johnny hung a slider to Gomez," Baker said. "That was the only mistake he made." The Reds tied it with an unearned run without benefit of a hit in the second. Xavier Paul led off with a walk, and Jack Hannahan followed with a chopper to second baseman Rickie Weeks, whose throw bounced past first baseman Juan Francisco for an error. Hannahan was forced out, and Paul moved to third on Ryan Hanigans grounder. Cueto drove in Paul, who broke for the plate on the pitch, with a suicide-squeeze bunt he said he didnt see. "I thought it was going to hit me," Cueto said. "I closed my eyes." Baker had no hesitation about flashing that signal. "We have confidence in Johnny in almost everything," he said. "That was a situation where it was threatening to rain, and we wanted to get the lead before it rained." Cozart led off the third with a double into the left-field corner, went to third on Vottos groundout, and scored the go-ahead run on Brandon Phillipss checked-swing chopper back to Peralta, who dropped the ball and had to scramble and settle for the out at first. The Brewers couldnt afford such mistakes with the way Cueto was pitching, manager Ron Roenicke said. "Defensively, we didnt play well," Roenicke said. "Offensively, we didnt have a lot of opportunities." Bruce followed with his 12th homer, a 469-foot drive, that landed two-thirds of the way up the right-field seats. He was more impressed with Cuetos performance. "That was very good," he said. "I think everybody at this point was holding their breath and hoping he could come out of the game feeling good," Bruce said. "It looks like he did. Im glad today went well." The Reds added two runs with one out in the sixth on Hannahans walk, Hanigans double off the left-field wall, and Lutzs pinch-hit single up the middle against Mike Gonzalez. NOTES: The Reds optioned RHP Pedro Villareal to Triple-A Louisville to make room on the roster for Cueto. ... Reds OF Chris Heisey is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Louisville on Monday. Heisey has been on the disabled list since April 29 with a strained right hamstring. ... Milwaukee RHP Marco Estrada is expected to throw a bullpen session Monday. Estrada has been on the disabled list since June 5 with a strained left hamstring ... The Reds will open their first home series against Central Division rival Pittsburgh. RHP Mike Leake (6-3) is scheduled to start Monday for Cincinnati. ... Milwaukee is off Monday before opening a three-game series in Houston. Alfredo Figaro (1-0) is scheduled to start on Tuesday. 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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The girls will come in, often wide-eyed and eager, to get a feel for what the typical day of an elite gymnast looks like. After watching three-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman make her way through another energy-sapping, mettle-testing, soul-draining workout, those same girls who dream of following in Raismans footsteps often leave in tears.I feel bad that Im supposed to be inspiring them and they dont even want to do it anymore, Raisman said. I think people are surprised at how hard it is.Six hours a day. Six days a week. Week after week. Year after year. Usually for as long as their bodies -- not to mention their brains -- can take it.Raisman can joke about it now that shes on the other side of it. Her spot on a second Olympic team is all but assured when national team coordinator Martha Karolyi announces the five-woman squad late Sunday night. That giddy moment, however, will be quickly tempered by the reality that the most challenging four weeks of their careers await. Time off between now and the opening ceremonies in Rio de Janeiro will be scarce, if it exists at all.The Grind is a rite of passage in the powerhouse U.S. womens program, one designed to end with tearful hugs on the podium with gold medals draped around their necks as The Star-Spangled Banner plays. Its a bid for glory that comes with an inherent risk as Karolyi and the coaching staff grapple with the question of how much is too much.Its a fine line Karolyi believes she has found a way to straddle effectively while building a dynasty that hasnt lost a major international competition in eight years. She is unapologetic in her approach, one that places a higher emphasis on execution than repetition. During competition days the Americans are almost always done with their warm-ups first, part of Karolyis directive to get it right and get out of there.Mentally you will be tired, but physically you are doing less when youre getting closer, then you can avoid overtraining, Karolyi said.If anything, Karolyi appears to have mellowed as she nears retirement. Olympic champion Mary Lou Retton remembers throwing 70 vaults a day while training under Karolyi and her husband Bela before the 1984 Games. Back then there were no extra mats to help pad the landings to take some of the pressure off their joints, an added layer of protection that is standard today.I hit that (gold-medal winning) vault when I had to, Retton said with a laugh while pointing out that at 48 shes already had both hips replaced. They train smarter and more efficient. Im pretty beat up.At this point in the Olympic cycle, healthy is a relative term. When the 2012 Olympic team arrived in London, reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber was dealing with stress fractures in her right leg.dddddddddddd While the adrenaline took over during competition, she spent the majority of her down time in treatment and limited her practice routines. Though Wieber helped the Fierce Five roll to gold, she also failed to qualify for the all-around final, finishing as the third American behind Raisman and Gabby Douglas.Now retired and serving as a volunteer assistant at UCLA (where shes also a student), Wieber doesnt believe she was overworked, calling her injury inevitable after thousands of hours in the gym. The severity of the pain didnt ramp up until the team arrived in London. With a lifetime goal finally in sight, Wieber bit her cheek and pressed forward.Everybody was banged up at the Olympics, she said. Im on the Olympic team already. Im not going to give that up.Its a mindset that can place Karolyi and her staff in a difficult position, particularly when it comes to teenagers who will likely have just one shot at their sports biggest stage.Coaching gymnastics is such a small part of it, said Kim Zmeskal Burdette, who coaches national team member Ragan Smith. Its reading their emotions, reading their body language. Are they just frustrated with this skill or is their body not functioning? Its hard.Zmeskal Burdette would know. The 1991 world champion acknowledges she was extremely intimidated to speak up during her career, concerned any sign of weakness would damage her standing. While making a comeback in the late 90s, she ignored the throbbing in her shoulder -- throbbing that eventually led to surgery -- out of fear of getting passed up.If I say something, I dont get to do bars, she said. I dont want to not do bars. My friends are going to do bars. Theyre going to get better at bars. Im going to be stressed that Im not doing bars. It kind of happens naturally.Every single athlete at Olympic Trials has at some point been pushed to exhaustion at her home gym far away from Karolyis watchful eyes. Raisman estimates shes done her boundary-pushing floor exercise 8 million times, which in her mind is only a slight exaggeration. There have been days shell peel herself off the floor to go home and her father will need to pick her up because she cant muster the energy to get behind the wheel.I think people always say we train so much, but the system works, Raisman said. You kind of have to push yourself to the point where you feel you can do your routine in your sleep. ... Im not saying its easy or its fun. Its fun now that Ive put in the work and its all coming together. ' ' '