Carlos Martinez (13-7) allowed three hits over six scoreless innings before the Reds reached him for three hits and two runs to knock him out of the game three batters into the seventh. Holt scored on Cozart’s two-out double. He worked the count to 3-2 before Schebler flied to medium left. Moss made a flawless, one-hop throw to the plate and Yadier Molina tagged out the sliding Holt to end the inning. “When you’re going to load the bases in the seventh, eighth and ninth of a tie game, it’s hard to get out of that”.
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Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina was given a day off Saturday, so Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton will have to wait until Sunday to resume wreaking havoc on the veteran backstop. He reached base safely in all five games, walking twice in each of his last two games played for the Redbirds.
St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong, right, forces out Cincinnati Reds’ Joey Votto an …
Randal Grichuk already had homered in the second to extend the Cardinals’ streak of consecutive games in which they had homered to 23, behind only San Diego’s 25 for the longest in the majors this season. Those two runs ended the afternoon for Martinez.
Right fielder Stephen Piscotty lost track of Tyler Holt’s flyball in the third, letting it fall for a double.
But Grichuk then provided the Cardinals’ first hit with a man in scoring position in their last 17 at-bats.
Rodney (2-4) allowed three runs, two hits, three walks and threw two wild pitches.
The switch-hitter was batting left-handed against Cardinals starter Carlos Martinez when he checked his swing on a 2-1 pitch, and immediately grabbed his left side.
Mets RF Jay Bruce, traded by the Reds to NY on August 1, returns to Cincinnati for the first time in the opener of a three-game series Monday.
WHITE SOX 13, TWINS 11: In Minneapolis, Jose Abreu hit two three-run homers and drove in a career-best seven runs, and Tim Anderson’s two-run double in the 12th helped Chicago to a wild win over Minnesota.
“He’s been mentioned so frequently in our game reports”, Price said. But, Blake Wood got Rosario to ground out to end the inning.
Adleman is in his second stint with the Reds this season, going 1-1 with a 3.72 ERA in his first four career starts before suffering a strained left oblique that landed him on the disabled list. They also purchased the contract of C Carson Kelly from Triple-A Memphis, designated for assignment INF Dean Anna and transferred RHP Seth Maness to the 60-day DL.
Pena, who has been bothered by a bad left knee all season _ he had surgery on it in April only to hurt it again _ was on his latest rehabilitation option at Class A Palm Beach.
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Grichuk’s drive extended to 23 the Cardinals’ club-record streak of consecutive games with at least one home run. Phillips followed with a double that ricocheted off third base.
