CINCINNATI \u2014 Jose Trevino lined a two-run single to right field with the bases loaded in the sixth inning and the Cincinnati Reds rallied for a 6-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Michael Conforto had three hits for the Cubs, who are tied with the Padres and Phillies at 85-69 for the three National League wild cards \u2014 five games ahead of Arizona with eight to play.<\/p>\n
Chicago had the potential tying run at the plate with two outs in the ninth when Michael Busch was caught stealing second base by Trevino on a pitchout.<\/p>\n
Clay Holmes (6-8) went 5 1\/3 innings for the Cubs and allowed six runs.<\/p>\n
Eugenio Su\u00e1rez tied it at 4 with a base hit to drive in Elly De La Cruz. H\u00e9ctor Rodr\u00edguez grounded into a fielder’s choice as Tyler Stephenson was called out at home before Trevino came through with the go-ahead hit.<\/p>\n
De La Cruz also drove in two runs for the Reds, who dropped three of four to the Los Angeles Dodgers in their previous series.<\/p>\n
Ian Happ homered in the third to tie it at 2 and Seiya Suzuki had a two-run single with the bases loaded in the fourth to put the Cubs up 4-3.<\/p>\n
Julian Aguiar (2-1) got the win in relief, allowing two runs in three innings. All-Star starter Chase Burns, who is on an innings restriction, gave up two runs in three innings.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
A matchup of left-handers on Saturday. Matthew Boyd (8-5, 4.16 ERA) takes the mound for Chicago while Nick Lodolo (3-5, 5.12) goes for Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Jose Trevino lined a two-run single to right field with the bases loaded in the sixth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,15056,363,3,6454,100813,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-853471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cincinnati","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853471","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=853471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}