Allen leads Indians to 11-1 romp
Bauer stays hot, Tribe blasts 4 homers to finish off sweep of Reds.
CINCINNATI — Greg Allen homered and tripled among his career-high four hits, Trevor Bauer stayed hot with seven solid innings and the Cleveland Indians beat the Cincinnati Reds 11-1 on Sunday.
Jake Bauers hit a two-run homer and Tyler Naquin and Jason Kipnis added solo shots, helping Cleveland to a season-high sixth straight win.
The Indians’ tied their single-game season high with nine extra-base hits.
Bauer (8-6) improved to 4-0 with a 2.90 earned-run average over his last six starts. He allowed one hit through the first four innings before Jose Peraza singled to lead off the fifth and scored on Josh VanMeter’s pinch-hit double. Bauer bounced back to slip called third strikes past the potential tying runs, Joey Votto and Eugenio Suarez.
Bauer avoided damage again with two more strikeouts to end the sixth with runners on second and third. He allowed four hits with three walks and nine strikeouts. He also hit a batter.
Right fielder Yasiel Puig didn’t move as Naquin launched an 0-1 Tyler Mahle splitter deep into the right field seats with two outs in the fourth inning for a 1-0 Cleveland lead.
Jose Ramirez contributed a sacrifice fly in the fifth before Bauers followed on the next pitch with his two-run shot off the batter’s eye in center field.
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Mahle (2-9) needed 84 pitches to get two batters into the fifth inning. He allowed six hits and three runs with three walks and seven strikeouts.
Allen’s two-run blast and Kipnis’ homer both came in Cleveland’s six-run eighth against right-hander Jimmy Herget, who was making his major league debut. Allen was the first batter faced by Herget.
Trainer’s room
Indians: RHP Danny Salazar, sidelined all season with right rotator cuff tendinitis, is scheduled to make his first rehab appearance on Thursday with Double-A Akron.
Reds: OF Nick Senzel left the game after one inning with a right ankle sprain after trying to make a leaping catch at the wall in the top of the first. Senzel opened the season on Triple-A Louisville’s injured list with a right ankle sprain that occurred in spring training.