In the second inning, Peavy allowed three home runs, including a solo shot by Brandon Phillips and two-run blasts by Eugenio Suarez and Zack Cozart in a 7-4 Reds’ win.
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With Ross Ohlendorf giving up an earned run in the ninth inning, the Reds’ bullpen has now given up a run in 22 straight games, extending its own major league record of 21 games.
Gregor Blanco followed with a single that scored Crawford, then promptly stole second base – the fourth steal of the game and the Giants’ ninth in three games in May.
On Tuesday afternoon, prior to the club’s matchup against the San Francisco Giants, the Cincinnati Reds announced that left-handed starter John Lamb would make his season debut.
Although he felt fine physically, Lamb wasn’t pleased with his three rehab starts which resulted in a 9.22 ERA. Moscot could be available to pitch out of the bullpen within a day or two. Arrieta returns to Pittsburgh, where he threw a five-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts in the NL wild-card game a year ago. The Reds shelled Peavy for five runs in the second inning, but Bruce Bochy opted to let Peavy work through the mess he created – which he did – but the damage had already been done.
Lamb retired the first two batters he faced in the Top of the 1st, but the heart of the Giants order got a run off him quickly thereafter.
The rebuilding Reds made no attempt to keep Cueto before dealing him to the Kansas City Royals last summer and watching him sign a $130 million contract with the Giants in December. “I can’t think of too many guys the first inning to the eighth with the velocity and action he had tonight”. He gave up six hits and three walks while striking out four. Giants LF Angel Pagan missed his second game in a row due to a mild hamstring strain. The Giants challenged the tag play but there wasn t enough evidence t overturn it. CF Billy Hamilton left in the fifth inning because of a jammed left thumb that has bothered him the last couple of weeks.
Cueto endured a six-run third inning in which he threw 46 pitches, the most by any Giant in one frame in more than 12 years.
In Houston, Brian Dozier broke out of a slump with three hits and Minnesota snapped Dallas Keuchel’s 17-game home winning streak with a victory. The second scored the first, and the Reds trailed early, 1-0.
Rockies 2, Padres 0: Tyler Chatwood (4-2) pitched three-hit ball for eight innings in his sixth start since Tommy John surgery, sending San Diego to its eighth shutout loss in 28 games this season.
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The Reds will open a four-game series against Milwaukee on Friday at GABP.
