{"id":610436,"date":"2026-04-16T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:44:08","slug":"reds-beat-giants-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/610436\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds beat Giants 8-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Sal Stewart hit a pair of three-run home runs for a career-high six RBIs, Eugenio Suarez and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2044563971521261863\" rel=\"nofollow\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a>\u00a0also homered, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the San Francisco Giants 8-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Stewart has 12 career homers<br \/>\n<br \/>Stewart is the second-youngest Reds player with six RBIs in a game<br \/>\n<br \/>De La Cruz made it 8-2 in the fourth with his sixth homer of the season<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Stewart has 12 career homers, the most by a Reds batter through his first 36 games since Aristedes Aquino hit 15 in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart is the second-youngest Reds player with six RBIs in a game \u2014 behind De La Cruz, who drove in six on Aug. 23, 2003 at the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Rhett Lowder (2-1) allowed three runs in 6 2\/3 innings for Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Former Red Tyler Mahle (0-3) started for San Francisco and allowed eight runs with five walks and four homers in four innings, raising his ERA from 4.30 to 7.23.<\/p>\n<p>With two runners on in the first, Stewart hit his sixth home run to right-center. Three pitches later, Suarez reached the first row of seats in right to make it 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>It was Suarez&#8217;s 192nd homer as a Red, moving him past Brandon Phillips into 12th place on the franchise&#8217;s career list. Suarez had three hits in a game for the first time since rejoining the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Susac&#8217;s two-run double in the second inning cut the Giants&#8217; deficit to 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Following a pair of two-out walks by Mahle, Stewart launched his team-leading seventh homer to make the score 7-2. It was his first career multi-homer game.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz made it 8-2 in the fourth with his sixth homer of the season, which sailed an estimated 442 feet to center.<\/p>\n<p>Up next\n<\/p>\n<p>Giants RHP Landen Roupp (2-1, 3.24 ERA) will face Reds RHP Chase Burns (1-1, 3.31) in the series finale on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Sal Stewart hit a pair of three-run home runs for a career-high six RBIs, Eugenio Suarez and\u00a0Elly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,10027,591,44,12293,91812,58194,85,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-610436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-cincinnati","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ohio","17":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}