CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Spencer Steer broke up a scoreless game with his 14th home run this season, Nick Lodolo pitched six scoreless innings, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The win avoided a sweep and stopped the Reds’ six game losing streak at home.<\/p>\n
Kyle Bradish retired the first 12 Reds of the game but walked Eugenio Suarez to start the fifth before Steer\u2019s homer made it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Bradish (5-9) pitched 7 \u2154 innings and allowed three runs and five hits with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Rookie All-Star Sal Stewart doubled home Edwin Arroyo to knock Bradish out of the game. Stewart has 61 RBI, tied for seventh in MLB and the most by a rookie this season. He is tied for 10th in baseball with 21 doubles, also the most by a rookie.<\/p>\n
Lodolo\u2019s string of 14 scoreless innings ended in the sixth inning. Taylor Ward doubled and scored on a single by Coby Mayo with two outs.<\/p>\n
Brock Burke made his 44th appearance this season, tied for second most in baseball, when he relieved Lodolo and pitched a 1-2-3 seventh.<\/p>\n
Lodolo (3-2) pitched six innings, allowing one run on six hits. He walked two and struck out four.<\/p>\n
Emilio Pagan got his first save chance since May 4 after missing 46 games with a strained left hamstring. The Orioles loaded the bases with two walks and Blaze Alexander’s third hit of the game. Gunnar Henderson hit a sacrifice fly to left to cut the lead to one before All-Star Adley Rutschman lined out to end the threat. Pagan earned his seventh save in 10 chances this season.<\/p>\n
Up Next\n<\/p>\n
Baltimore’s Shane Baz (4-8, 4,19 ERA) starts Tuesday against the Chicago Cubs, who haven’t yet announced their starter.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati’s Andrew Abbott (5-4, 3.88 ERA) takes the mound Tuesday in the opener of a three-game home series against Philadelphia. The Phillies haven’t announced their starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Spencer Steer broke up a scoreless game with his 14th home run this season, Nick Lodolo pitched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,10027,591,44,12293,91812,85,39],"class_list":["post-782602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cincinnati","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782602","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=782602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}