CINCINNATI – – Privateers from times gone past were known for sinking ships. In any case, not a single one of them probably might have at any point flaunted about hitting a riverboat.

Elly De La Cruz can.

De La Cruz had three hits and three RBIs on a night that incorporated a mammoth two-run homer crashed into Extraordinary American Ball Park’s riverboat deck above focus field. That was the interjection point for the Reds’ 11-5 series-opening triumph over Pittsburgh on Monday.

Positioned third again among Public Association shortstops in the most recent Top pick balloting update, De La Cruz completed a triple short of hitting for the second pattern of his profession.

The lead was at that point 9-3 when De La Cruz slugged Daulton Jefferies’ 1-0 shaper to the riverboat roosted over the hitter’s eye for his fourteenth homer of the time. Statcast extended the drive at 439 feet with a 111.5 mph leave speed.

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