Reds’ 12-game winning streak ends as Braves prevail in eight-homer slugfest
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds‘ longest profitable streak in 66 years was stopped at 12 video games when Raisel Iglesias struck out Jonathan India for the ultimate out because the Atlanta Braves prevailed 7-6 Saturday in an eight-homer slugfest.
Each crew homered 4 occasions.
Matt Olson hit the 2 hundredth of his huge league profession and Travis d’Arnaud and Ozzie Albies additionally went deep off Graham Ashcraft (3-6), who allowed three lengthy balls for the primary time in 33 huge league begins. Marcell Ozuna homered towards Alex Young because the Braves received for the ninth time in 10 video games.
Cincinnati’s Matt McLain and Spencer Steer hit two-run homers.
Iglesias, who pitched for the Reds from 2015-20, entered with a 7-4 lead within the ninth and allowed consecutive one-out homers to Jake Fraley and Will Benson. He then struck out McLain and India, each on changeups, for his eleventh save in 13 probabilities.
Cincinnati’s profitable streak was its longest since April 30 to May 12, 1957. The Reds haven’t received 13 straight since their closing six video games in 1918 and their first seven in 1919.
Fraley homered for the third straight sport.
Boosted by the streak, the Reds drew 43,498 for his or her first consecutive sellouts since June 24-26, 2016, when Pete Rose’s No. 14 was retired.
Michael Tonkin (2-0) pitched 2 1/3 hitless innings for the Braves, who received eight in a row earlier than shedding Friday’s sequence opener.
Ashcraft made his first begin since he was hit by a comebacker June 8. He allowed six runs and 10 hits in 4 innings.
Atlanta took a 2-0 lead on solo homers by d’Arnaud within the second and Albies within the third, the latter a drive off the bridge connecting the Sun and Moon Deck in proper with the principle concourse. Ozuna added an RBI single within the third and McLain’s homer reduce the hole to 3-2.
Austin Riley hit an RBI double within the fourth and scored on Olson’s NL-leading twenty fourth house run, his third of the sequence.
Ozuna’s seventh-inning homer was his fifteenth of the season and thirteenth for the reason that begin of May, and it put the Braves forward 7-4.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Braves: C Sean Murphy (hamstring) is anticipated to start out behind the plate on Sunday. He has made one pinch hit look since getting damage per week in the past.
Reds: RHP Ben Lively (proper pectoral muscle pressure) was positioned on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Wednesday. Lively had been scheduled to start out Sunday. … Ashcraft (bruised left calf) was activated from the 15-day IL and RHP Alan Busenitz was optioned to Triple-A Louisville.
UP NEXT
Atlanta begins 39-year-old RHP Charlie Morton (6-6, 3.71) on Sunday. Lively’s substitute had not been introduced.
