Cincinnati -- Different town, same results for the Braves.

This time, on a breezy night by the Ohio River, the Braves were undone by rookie outfielder Jay Bruce and the worst game of Chipper Jones' otherwise magical season.

Bruce, who had a four-hit game in only his fourth game as a major-leaguer, led off the 11th inning with a hit and later scored the winning run on a Jones error, as the Braves lost to the Cincinnati Reds 3-2.

The loss dropped the Braves to 7-19 on the road this season and 1-3 on another long and winding road trip.

"The more you lose games like tonight, the more you get in a position where you're waiting for something bad to happen," said Tom Glavine, who took a no-decision. "I don't know that we're at that point yet. I hope we aren't. It just seems like whatever can go wrong on the road for us has gone wrong."

After Bruce's hit, Ken Griffey Jr. singled past Jones and the Braves' defensive shift. Stone Mountain's Brandon Phillips then grounded a ball under Jones' glove to score Bruce and start the second walk-off scrum the Braves have had to watch this trip.

In addition to his error, Jones went 0-for-5 at the plate and grounded into two double plays to snap an 11-game hitting streak. He lowered his majors-leading average from .420 to .409.

"Chipper comes up with two," Bobby Cox said. "No way to explain that. I guess he's due a bad ball game out of every 50."

Jones faced the media soon after Cox said that, knowing the loss was largely in his hands.

"Well that's pretty much as bad as you can do right there," Jones said. "It was ugly. Griffey's ball was kind of a funny hop, playing in for a possible bunt, cue shot, whatever. I'm the only guy on that side of the infield. The last ball it was barreled, caught another in-between hop. I came up, and the ball didn't."

So add defensive miscues to a lack of offense that has compounded the Braves' close-game problems.

The Braves fell to 0-12 in one-run games on the road, 2-15 overall.

"Sooner or later, if we're serious about contending we better figure out a way to win these games on the road," said Glavine, who did his part Friday night.

Glavine matched Edinson Volquez and his major-league leading 1.31 ERA with two runs allowed in six innings.

The Braves needed a three-hit shutout by Tim Hudson to beat Volquez earlier this month. They weren't going to get that kind of perfection on Friday night with Bruce in the lineup. He got three hits off Glavine by himself. He went 4-for-5 on the night to raise his average to .571 (8-for-14) since his Tuesday call-up.

"He looks like the real deal," Jones said. "He looks like Frenchy [Jeff Francoeur] when he got called up. Everything he gets his barrel on is falling in."

Still, Glavine matched Volquez zero-for-zero through five innings before both started having problems in the sixth. Bruce, who hit soft singles in the first and third off Glavine, sent a run-scoring double on one hop to the wall in the sixth inning.

The Braves looked desperate in the 10th when Yunel Escobar tried to catch closer Francisco Cordero napping by turning a two-out walk into a swipe of second base. Cordero was right there to throw him out.

"That's not what lost the game," Jones said. "We had some opportunities to score, and we didn't take advantage. I played the worst game of the year, and it cost us a one-run game."