Finnegan left the game after five innings, down 6-0, having allowed six runs on seven hits with one walk and the seven strikeouts.
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Reds Manager Bryan Price said the right-hander is pitching as well if not better than he has in any of his 13 seasons.
Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Brandon Finnegan, left, steps off…
Cardinals: Holliday (quad), Grichuk (elbow) and 1B Matt Adams (quad) have all returned to the lineup after stints on the disabled list, but none of them have been cleared to start on consecutive days. Finnegan gave up three homers, two of them to Matt Carpenter. When Cincinnati RHP Josh Smith starts Thursday night against the New York Mets, it will mark the 100th game that a rookie has started for the Reds this year….
Votto hit a liner up the middle that was gloved by a diving Carpenter at second, but he struggled to field the ball cleanly and wasn’t able to force Frazier at second. Votto also singled while extending his streak of reaching base safely to 40 games.
Votto got the Reds on the board in the seventh with a solo home run to straight-away center, his 29th of the season to make it 6-1. At 89 pitches, Matheny could have run his starter out for one more but instead opted to let Lynn leave on the happy note.
St. Louis Cardinals’ Matt Carpenter, right, is congratulated by…
Cincinnati Reds’ Brayan Pena argues with home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi after being called out on strikes to end the top of the eighth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, September 23, 2015, in St. Louis.
St. Louis Cardinals’ Mark Reynolds scores on a single by Matt Adams… Ivan DeJesus Jr. tripled in Skip Schumaker for the Reds’ other run in the ninth.
Anyone driving near Busch Stadium Wednesday night may have taken a second look at their calendars wondering if they had mistaken the first day of fall with the Fourth of July as the Cardinals sent four balls over the wall on their way to plating double digit runs. He followed that with a win in his first career start Saturday in Milwaukee. I’m not disappointed in what I’ve seen from Brandon regardless of what happened today.
Particularly if the Cardinals continue to hit as they did in this one.
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“We have a lot of guys that can hit for power but unfortunately a lot of us have been injured”, Grichuk said.
