Those were the only runs off Mengden (0-1), but they would tell the story on this day, as the A’s dropped their ninth consecutive game on the road.
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Duvall later scored the go-ahead run from third on Gray’s second wild pitch of the inning.
“You look at that inning and that’s just how this road trip’s been for us”, Gray said.
“I’ve got to catch those balls”, catcher Stephen Vogt said.
Line drives to center by DeSclafani and Eugenio Suarez and a liner by Zack Cozart that was snared on a dive by second baseman Jed Lowrie. “This past one I was able to lift some weights, put on some weight and I felt really good coming into spring training”. He gave up eight hits, three walks and hit a batter in six innings, but got two double plays to limit the damage. In his first major league start, Mengden, pitching with his parents in the house, threw the game he’d been dreaming of since he was 6. The win guaranteed the Reds a winning record on their nine-game home stand, which is scheduled to conclude on Sunday with the finale of the three-game series. Reds CF Billy Hamilton was transferred to the seven-day concussion disabled list, opening a roster spot for RHP Anthony DeSclafani, who made his season debut on Friday after beginning the season on the DL with a left oblique strain…. Bruce went 1 for 2, walked twice, and made sure that lone hit counted – it was his 14th dinger of the season, and provided all the offense on the day.
The A’s still had a man at third and one out, but Marcus Semien’s grounder to third was a run-on-contact play, and Davis was easily out at the plate. But he piped a fastball to Jay Bruce in the third, and the Reds right fielder mashed it deep into the right field seats for a two-run homer that erased the A’s 1-0 lead.
Hahn is 2-4 with a 6.49 ERA in seven starts over two stints with the A’s. This marks their longest road losing streak since they lost 11 in a row from May 21-June 9, 2005.
Coco Crisp snapped an 0-for-16 slump…. The 23-year-old was acquired from Houston as part of the deal for Scott Kazmir last July. The fourth-round draft pick in 2014 started the season in Double-A, but he needed only two months to make it to the majors.
Cincinnati Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton makes a diving catch for the out on St. Louis Cardinals’ Matt Adams during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in Cincinnati.
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Reds: LHP John Lamb (1-3) has gone seven innings in two straight starts, the only Reds pitcher to do that this season.
