CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Blake Dunn hit a single in the 10th inning to drive in automatic runner Spencer Steer and give the Cincinnati Reds a 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
Steer homered twice and Will Benson hit a tying solo shot in the ninth for the Reds, who only had four hits in the game. <\/p>\n
The Royals led 3-2 when pinch-hitter Benson homered off Royals closer Lucas Erceg.<\/p>\n
The Royals had runners on first and third with one out in the 10th, but Jac Caglianone lined out to short and Brock Burke (2-2) struck out Kyle Isbel to end the threat. <\/p>\n
Royals left-hander Noah Cameron allowed one hit \u2014 Steer\u2019s solo home run in the fifth \u2014 and struck out eight with no walks in seven innings. <\/p>\n
Kansas City had lost eight of Cameron\u2019s 10 starts this season but he was dominant on Tuesday, tying career highs with seven innings pitched and eight strikeouts. <\/p>\n
Cameron, who took a no-hitter into the seventh in his major league debut on April 30, retired the first 13 batters he faced on Tuesday with four strikeouts. <\/p>\n
With one out in the fifth, Steer hit a solo home run for the Reds\u2019 first hit. Cameron struck out three batters in the fifth and retired seven straight following Steer\u2019s homer. <\/p>\n
John Schreiber (0-3) took the loss.<\/p>\n
Reds left-hander Andrew Abbott, who had a 1.85 ERA over his previous six starts, allowed three earned runs on five hits in six innings. <\/p>\n
All three runs, four of the five hits and two of four walks allowed by Abbott came in the fourth inning. <\/p>\n
The Royals loaded the bases twice in the fourth. The first run scored from third on Caglianone\u2019s groundout. Two more runs scored on Michael Massey\u2019s two-out single.<\/p>\n
Steer homered again in the eighth off Matt Strahm to cut the Reds\u2019 deficit to 3-2. It was Steer\u2019s fourth career multihome run game. <\/p>\n
Up next <\/p>\n
Royals RHP Stephen Kolek (3-1, 3.48 ERA) opposes Reds RHP Chase Burns (7-1, 1.96) in Wednesday\u2019s series finale. <\/p>\n
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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n
Jeff Wallner, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Blake Dunn hit a single in the 10th inning to drive in automatic runner Spencer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-711596","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\/711596","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=711596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}