Spencer Steer homered in successive at-bats and drove in five runs, and Elly De La Cruz hit his group driving 21st homerun as the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 on Monday night.
Andrew Abbott (10-9) permitted one run and five hits in 6 2/3 innings to snap his three-game long string of failures. The left-hander was labeled for 12 acquired runs over his past 13 1/3 innings.
Cardinals starter Sonny Dark (11-7) struck out nine of every five innings, however is winless in three profession begins against his previous club. He surrendered six runs and five hits, including three homers.
Abbott got away from bases-stacked jams in the second and third. He got done with six strikeouts and resigned 11 straight players during one stretch.
Steer and De La Cruz homered on progressive pitches from Dim to place Cincinnati ahead 3-1 in the third. It was the fifth time this season the Reds hit consecutive homeruns.
Steer, who batted leadoff for the third time this year and fifth time in his profession, struck again in the fifth with a three-run shot to make it 6-1.
It was Steer’s most memorable profession multi-homer game. He has 18 homers this season.
Cardinals supervisor Oliver Marmol was launched out by plate umpire Stu Scheurwater in the fifth subsequent to contending a called ball. It was Marmol’s fourth launch this season and the thirteenth of his profession.
Cardinals: DH/INF Matt Craftsman (lower back strain) was put on the 10-day harmed list, retroactive to Aug. 9, and OF Jordan Walker was reviewed from Triple-A Memphis. … RHP Spear Lynn (right knee irritation) tossed a warm up area.
Reds: RHP Graham Ashcraft (right elbow strain) will start a six-week tossing program in around 10 days. … INF Matt McLain (left shoulder a medical procedure), who had a misfortune with a pressure response in his rib confine, is supposed to start hitting in several days.
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Cardinals: RHP Erick Fedde (8-5, 3.28 Period) pitches Tuesday night, his second beginning for St. Louis since being procured from the Chicago White Sox in an exchange.
Reds: RHP Tracker Greene (8-4, 2.90) had a 24-inning scoreless streak snapped in his last beginning.
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