The game would ultimately go into the thirteenth inning, where Grichuk would once again come up to bat.
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Billy Hamilton of the Reds initially misjudged Jason Heyward’s fly ball to center in the eighth, but made a stretching, over-the-shoulder catch and slid on his stomach on the warning track to make up for his late break on the ball.
CINCINNATI (AP) – J.J. Hoover had allowed only a pair of homers all season. It was Carpenter’s fifth homer in his last six games.
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Cincinnati brought the tying run to the plate in the eighth and ninth.
DENVER – Michael McKenry hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning to lift Colorado over Seattle. Their longest was an 18-inning loss to the Mets.
The mound was slippery, the rain was steady, the bullpen was exhausted. Greinke hit his fifth career homer in the third to make it 7-5.
New York got its sixth straight victory. Todd Frazier’s groundout scored the Reds’ other run. “I have a hard time believing anyone covers more ground and saves more from a defensive perspective”.
Mike Blazek pitched the eighth and ninth. The Giants have won 16 of 21.
Iglesias led off the ninth with a single against Ryan Madson (1-2) before Kinsler hit a 2-0 fastball into the bullpen in left field.
BREWERS 8, PADRES 5: Rookie Taylor Jungmann struck out a career-high eight and allowed six hits without a walk over seven innings in Milwaukee’s victory over San Diego.
Cincinnati led 3-0 through five innings and appeared poised to clinch consecutive series wins against St. Louis for the first time since 2011.
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Encarnacion hit a three-run drive and Donaldson added a two-run shot. The Cardinals have a 24-18 record in close games.
The Cardinals are 0-6 in their last 6 during game 3 of a series and 10-2 in Wachas last 12 road starts.
The Angels came in 0-44 when trailing after eight. Despite that, he is the only player in all of Major League Baseball with at least 13 home runs, 20 doubles and seven triples.
Garcia also hit a three-run homer in a five-run first inning and finished with four RBIs. Brown’s RBI single in the third cut it to 7-6. Cabrera left the game later in the inning. After a shallow flyout was unable to score Eaton, Boxberger intentionally walked Jose Abreu and Melky Cabrera to get to Garcia.
Evan Longoria homered for the Rays. He also thinks people are overstating Derek Carr’s abilities at quarterback, as he may do well in the fourth quarter, but his numbers are padded with garbage time performance.
The left-hander allowed seven hits and didn’t walk a batter, lowering his ERA to 3.28 in the 116-pitch outing.
Cincinnati is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games when playing St. Louis.
Joe Ross (3-3) pitched strong solid innings just giving up a solo homer to Jarrod Saltamacchia in the fifth inning.
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The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cincinnati’s last 5 games. This would put Matt Carpenter to third, which allowed him to score on Jhonny Peralta’s single shortly after.
