CLEVELAND \u2014 Matt McLain drove in three runs and Cincinnati survived a brutal inning by its bullpen as the Reds snapped a seven-game road losing streak with a 7-6 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday night in the first meeting between Ohio\u2019s teams this year.<\/p>\n
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Matt McLain drove in three runs and Cincinnati survived a brutal inning by its bullpen as the Reds snapped a seven-game road losing streak with a 7-6 win over the Cleveland Guardians
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Cincinnati seemed on the way to an easy victory when McLain hit a two-run homer in the eighth to make it 6-1
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But Reds relievers issued five walks in the eighth, two with the bases loaded. Reds reliever Tejay Antone gave up a run in the ninth before McLain made a diving stop at second and threw out Bazzana for the final out<\/p>\n
Cincinnati seemed on the way to an easy victory when McLain hit a two-run homer in the eighth to make it 6-1.<\/p>\n
But things got messy as Reds reliever Graham Ashcraft walked the bases loaded and Travis Bazzana hit an RBI single to pull Cleveland within 6-2. Brock Burke came on and got a strikeout, but forced in two runs with a pair of bases-loaded walks.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez’s sacrifice fly made it 6-5. The Guardians drew four four-pitch walks in the inning.<\/p>\n
The Reds got an insurance run in the ninth on JJ Bleday’s fielder’s choice.<\/p>\n
Tejay Antone gave up a run in the ninth before second baseman McLain made a diving stop in the outfield grass and threw out Bazzana for the final out. It was Antone’s first save since May 30, 2021. The right-hander has undergone three Tommy John surgeries.<\/p>\n
Reds starter Andrew Abbott (3-2) extended his scoreless streak to 21 2\/3 innings \u2014 and 19 against Cleveland \u2014 before giving up a home run to Rhys Hoskins in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Elly De La Cruz had an RBI double off Tanner Bibee (0-6) for the Reds, who went 0-7 on their most recent trip.<\/p>\n
Bibee hasn’t gotten nearly enough help from the Guardians, who didn’t score in five of his first nine starts. The right-hander came in getting just 1.39 runs per start after averaging a career-high 4.79 last season.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Reds RHP Chris Paddack (0-5, 7.63) starts the middle game of the series against Joey Cantillo (3-1, 2.98), who was slated to start Sunday but is switching spots with Gavin Williams (5-3, 3.74).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Matt McLain drove in three runs and Cincinnati survived a brutal inning by its bullpen as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,363,3,6454,48238,90616,48237,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-647517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cleveland","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-top-stories","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-ohio-dayton-top-stories","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}