Diamondbacks overcome six HRs from Reds
David Peralta hit a three-run triple in a sixrun 10th inning to finish with five hits and a career-best seven RBIs, and Arizona overcame six Cincinnati home runs to beat the Reds 1411 Thursday in Cincinnati.
Carson Kelly followed Peralta with a two-run homer as the Diamondbacks opened a 14-8 lead. Arizona hung on in the bottom half to complete a three-game sweep that extended its winning streak to four and boosted its record to 9-10.
“I’m real happy with what we did,” Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said. “We won three games in a tough environment in about 40 hours. I’m real proud of the guys.”
The Reds lost their fourth straight, finishing a 2-4 homestand.
Cincinnati’s Jesse Winker had his third career two-homer game, Nick Castellanos hit his sixth home run of the season as he returned from a two-game suspension and Eugenio Suárez, Joey Votto and Jonathan India also went deep. All of the Reds’ home runs came from among the top four spots in the batting order.
Peralta tied his career high with his third five-hit game. He hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning, had three singles and finished a double short of the cycle. He raised his average from .213 to .269.
“To have a day like that is a big relief for me,” Peralta said. “I’ve been putting in a lot of hard work at home plate, trying to read better. Today was the day — a great sweep for us.” PIRATES 4, TIGERS 2 >> Phillip Evans kept Akil Baddoo’s drive to left field in the park in the seventh inning to help Pittsburgh escape a jam, and the visiting Pirates scored twice in the eighth to beat Detroit. Colin Moran and Erik González hit RBI singles with two outs in the eighth in the game played through snow flurries at times.
With the score tied at 2, Baddoo nearly put the Tigers ahead, but Evans reached above the fence in left, and the ball bounced off his glove and back into the field of play. Baddoo wound up with a double, and he didn’t end up scoring. YANKEES 6, INDIANS 3 >> Rougned Odor’s twoout, two-run single broke a seventh-inning tie and sent the visiting Yankees to a win over Cleveland. Odor was batting just .107 and in a 3-for-28 slide when he came up against Nick Wittgren (0-1). He slapped his single through the middle to score Aaron Judge and Gleyber Torres to break a 3-3 tie.