{"id":165126,"date":"2025-09-24T02:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:05:12","slug":"oneil-cruzs-two-run-homer-helps-pittsburgh-pirates-snap-cincinnati-reds-five-game-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165126\/","title":{"rendered":"Oneil Cruz\u2019s two-run homer helps Pittsburgh Pirates snap Cincinnati Reds\u2019 five-game win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Oneil Cruz<\/a> hit a two-run homer and the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> beat the wild-card chasing Cincinnati Reds<\/a> 4-2 on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

Cincinnati entered the game tied with the New York Mets<\/a> for the third NL wild card. The Reds own the first tiebreaker over the Mets with a 4-2 edge in the season series. The Mets played the Cubs on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

The Pirates scored all four of their runs in the second inning against Brady Singer<\/a> (14-11). <\/p>\n

Jack Suwinski<\/a> doubled and scored on Nick Yorke<\/a>\u2019s single. Yorke scored from first on Alexander Canario<\/a>\u2019s double. Cruz\u2019s 20th homer of the season made it 4-0. <\/p>\n

Elly De La Cruz<\/a>, who snapped a 43-game homerless streak on Saturday, got the Reds\u2019 on the board with a two-run homer off Johan Oviedo<\/a> to make the score 4-2 in the bottom of the second. <\/p>\n

The Reds had runners on first and third with two outs in the sixth, but Pirates rookie Hunter Barco (1-0), making his major league debut, got Matt McLain<\/a> to ground into a force play. Barco earned his first career victory. <\/p>\n

The Reds managed only five hits and grounded into three straight inning-ending double plays including in the ninth to help Dennis Santana<\/a> secure his 15th save. <\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Suwinski appeared to make a diving catch on Will Benson<\/a>\u2019s drive in foul territory down the left field line with two outs in the fourth. The Reds challenged and the ruling of a catch was overturned. Benson struck out to end the inning stranding two runners. <\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

The loss snapped Cincinnati\u2019s season-high five-game winning streak. The Reds have won five straight games four times this season. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Reds RHP Hunter Greene<\/a> (7-4, 2.74 ERA) opposes Pirates RHP Paul Skenes<\/a> (10-10, 2.03) on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Jeff Wallner, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Oneil Cruz hit a two-run homer and the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates beat the wild-card chasing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-165126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}