Suarez slugs game-winner
Extra-inning victory lets Cincinnati snap St. Louis’ 10-series winning streak.
Eugenio Suarez’s tworun homer off of Bud Norris in
the 10th inning lifted the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.
After Suarez’s 31st of the season, Brandon Dixon hit a solo homer four pitches later. The Reds hit back-to-back homers for the fifth time this season, the sixth and seventh home runs given up by
Norris (3-4).
They came right after Michael Lorenzen (2-1) pitched out of a bases-loaded, nobody-out jam in the ninth without giving up a run to send the game to extra innings. Raisel Iglesias earned his 25th save in 29 chances despite allowing a run for the fourth time in his last five outings.
The Reds won for just the third time in their last 11 games, including the last two against the Cardinals, snapping their series winning streak at 10. St. Louis (76-61) fell a half game behind the Milwaukee Brewers into the second wild card spot in the National League.
Billy Hamilton sparked a tworun first inning with a leadoff double. Scooter Gennett’s single scored Hamilton and Joey Votto came home on a Luke Weaver wild pitch.
Reds starter Anthony DeSclafani ran into trouble in the fourth, giving up an RBI double to Harrison Bader and an RBI bunt single to Greg Garcia to tie it at 2-2. His 3⅔-inning performance was his shortest outing since July 15.
Hamilton used his speed to stretch a leadoff single to right into a double in the seventh. He moved to third on a Jose Peraza
sacrifice and trotted home to break a 2-2 tie on a Votto fly to center. Bader used his legs to tie it for the Cardinals in the eighth, beating out a slow grounder to short for a bases-loaded infield single to tie it 3-3.
Trade: The Reds traded OF Preston Tucker back to the Atlanta Braves for cash.
Late Saturday: Cincinnati RHP Luis Castillo tossed 6⅔ shutout innings and combined with two relievers on a two-hitter to lead the Reds to a 4-0 win over the Cardinals. Castillo (8-11) gave up two hits and struck out a career-high 11. He gave up a leadoff single to Matt Carpen- ter in the first before retir- ing 15 of the next 16 hitters.
David Hernandez and Rai- sel Iglesias completed the two-hitter, the Reds’ fifth shutout of the season. Joey Votto broke the scoreless tie with a run-scoring double in the fourth and later scored himself.