Club-record 10th slam sends Reds to victory

CINCINNATI — The Reds tied their club record for grand slams July 1 and figured it wouldn’t be long before someone got the next one. They waited more than two months before Scott Schebler hit No. 10.

Schebler hit the grand slam that set a Reds season record, and Phillip Ervin homered twice as Cincinnati pulled away to a rain-delayed 12-6 victory over the San Diego Padres in a game that stretched into early Saturday morning.

Schebler connected off Rowan Wick in the sixth for Cincinnati’s 10th grand slam, putting the Reds up 10-4 and ending the long wait. Every time a Reds batter came up with the bases loaded at Great American Ball Park, the statistic flashed on the scoreboard.

“We’ve been looking at that on the scoreboard for, what, a couple months now,” Schebler said. “It was really cool. It’s all about the guys getting on base.”

Ervin had a solo homer and a two-run shot, the first multi-homer game of his career.

The start of the game was delayed by 2 hours, 37 minutes because of rain and ended at 12:09 a.m. Both starters made quick exits.

The Reds’ 10 grand slams have been hit by Adam Duvall (2), Scooter Gennett, Eugenio Suarez, Joey Votto, Jesse Winker, DeSclafani, Lorenzen, Peraza and Schebler. The only other major league team with at least nine different players hitting a grand slam in a season was the 2000 Cardinals, who had 10 players connect, according to STATS.