He’s now gone 10 straight starts without allowing more than three runs and owns a 2.53 ERA since the beginning of July.
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Reds: Dan Straily and Tim Adleman will move up one day in Cincinnati’s rotation this weekend to give extra rest to Homer Bailey, who has a sore muscle in his right arm. “It was going to be the priority – we needed to get innings out of that start”. Cron came all the way around to score from first, and Marte was thrown out at third to end the inning after the run crossed the plate.Finnegan struck out nine in seven effective innings.
It would have been even better if he didn’t have to face Angels first baseman C.J. Cron. Nick Buss hit a one-out double off Raisel Iglesias, and he scored on Cron’s two-out single. “One pitch that was hit out of the park early in the game, but he buckled down after that and got into the game”. “I did that tonight but unfortunately, three runs were too many”. But you watch Nolasco, he threw strikes with a mix. Eugenio Suarez added his 20th home run. “He went after (Cron) in that last at-bat”.
Cron came up again in the bottom of the third inning and cranked out his second home run of the night off Adleman, this one to right-center for a 3-0 Angels lead.
Bring on the Mariners, I say! In the process, he would only give up four hits while striking out seven (all on 94 freakin’ pitches!). Peraza finished the game with four hits, including a ninth-inning double.
Ricky Nolasco recorded his first victory as a member of the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday, and did so in impressive fashion.
Calhoun contributed his 13th home run of the season in the fourth against reliever Alfredo Simon, who was making his first appearance after being activated from the disabled list before the game.
Albert Pujols, Trout’s teammate on the Angels, led the National League for six straight seasons while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals (2005-2010).
The Angels got an insurance run in the eighth inning on an RBI single by Andrelton Simmons.
The Cincinnati Reds could use a win after losing seven of their last nine games. Zack Cozart was inserted as a pinch-runner and remained in the game at shortstop.
Hamilton’s at-bat went 10 pitches, with two balls down the left-field line that just almost went for extra bases, but both were foul.
Pujols, 36, played the first four months of the 2013 season with the same condition in his left foot before the fascia ligament finally snapped in late July, ending his season but essentially replicating the surgical procedure he would have had after the season if the ligament held up through September. Mike Trout began the rally by lining a double off the right-field scoreboard.
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Reds manager Bryan Price told MLB.com that Finnegan was “as sharp as I’ve seen him this year”.
