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MLB Score: Marlins 4, Reds 5

Indians 3, White Sox 1 • Corey Kluber allowed one run in six innings to win his fourth consecutive start, and host Cleveland defeated Chicago for the seventh straight time.

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The Reds are trying to play spoiler and will get more chances when they host a four-game series against the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend. “He got good wood on it”. That allowed Christian Yelich to score from second.

Blake Wood pitched a ideal eighth and Tony Cingrani retired the side in the ninth for his 15th save in 20 chances and second in two games. That aside, he doubled twice, scored, drove in a pair of runs, and added a stolen base in his return to the lineup after two games off, and once again showed why he’s been one of the better Reds to don the jersey over the last few generations. “I got a lot of grounders”. “I just wanted to keep that carrot out there”. “Obviously, he put us in position to win”.

Coming off his first loss this season, DeSclafani (7-1) appeared to injure his left ankle making a sudden stop while running the bases in the fourth. He gave up all six Miami hits and one earned run – Ozuna’s 21st homer leading off the fourth – with one walk and six strikeouts in his first start in Cincinnati since August 7, 2014. Eugenio Suarez’s RBI double made the score 5-0.

Marcell Ozuna stayed hot with his third home run of the series. Bailey underwent Tommy John surgery the next month.

Miami’s seven other hits in the game were all singles with Martin Prado picking up two of them. Betts is batting.426 with 12 homers and 18 RBIs in 11 games against the Orioles this season.

HOTTO: Votto singled in the fifth to extend his hitting streak to nine games (16 for 36, .485).

Marlins: Miami will be careful not to overuse 42-year-old RF Ichiro Suzuki with Giancarlo Stanton on the DL.

“We’ve been firing on all cylinders”, Straily said. “I don’t know if he wants to hear that or not”. He struck out seven and did not walk a batter.A throwing error by Jumbo Diaz to begin the seventh led to two runs with Martin Prado delivering a two-out, two-run single to cut Miami’s deficit to 5-4.Raisel Iglesias, whom the Reds want to look at as their future closer, pitched a ideal ninth for his second save of the season and his career.Thursday’s game certainly didn’t start the way the Marlins typically expect with Fernandez on the mound.Cincinnati had several hard-hit balls off the Miami ace before Cabrera, who owned one career home run in 130 major league at-bats, crushed a 1-0 pitch into the right-field seats for a three-run homer, putting the Reds ahead 3-0.Cincinnati scored three times, collected four hits and had two line-drive outs in the first two innings.The Reds weren’t finished.In the third, Billy Hamilton singled and later scored on a throwing error.

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The Fish will send their ace to the mound here though as Jose Fernandez gets the ball as he will face off against journeyman Dan Straily who is 8-6 with a 3.75 ERA this season but pales in comparison to Fernandez who is 12-6 with a 2.81 mark and continues to carry one of the better K-rates in the league.

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