He lasted 3 1/3 innings, allowing seven hits and five runs with one walk and three strikeouts. They also scored five times in the 10th inning of a 5-1 win at Philadelphia on Thursday. The Braves sent nine batters to the plate in the 18-minute top of the first, giving them consecutive five-run innings. Jake Fraley, De La Cruz and Votto homered against rookie starter AJ Smith-Shawver, who blew a 5-0 lead. I’d say that if our record was different.” It’s not just because of the winning streak, either. I get to watch these guys in front of me zoom around the bases. "I’m hitting sixth on this team, happily. “This is the most enjoyable version of baseball, I think I’ve ever seen,” Votto said. His no-doubters covered a combined 843 feet. The six-time All-Star and 2010 NL MVP missed roughly four months of games over two seasons while recovering from surgery last August. He tied it in the fourth and gave the Reds a 9-7 lead with his three-run shot in the fifth.
Votto produced his 19th career multi-homer game in just his fourth game since being activated Monday from the injured list. Alexis Díaz pitched a hitless ninth for his 21st save in 21 tries. We couldn’t put up a couple of zeros in the middle.”Īlex Young (3-0), the third of seven Cincinnati pitchers, got two outs for the win. I don’t ever come in here feeling any lead is safe, and when we were down, I kind of still had a good feeling with a couple of at-bats left. “Both teams are banging the ball all over the place. “It was … wow,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. Three of Atlanta's homers were hit in the eighth. and Austin Riley to earn their major league-best 27th comeback victory of the season. The Reds overcame a five-run Braves first inning against Luke Weaver, two homers by Matt Olson and drives from Travis d’Arnaud, Ronald Acuña Jr. It took a lot of great performances to win that game.” They came up short, but it showed the kind of team they are. "I think a lot had to do with the atmosphere in the ballpark. “I think this might be the best regular-season game that I’ve been a part of," Reds manager David Bell said. Many in the sellout crowd of 43,086 at Great American Ball Park chanted “Elly! Elly!" The big turnout came two months after a record low for attendance at the stadium of 7,375 on April 17. 44 and to be the (first) one since him to do that, is incredible.” Sure enough he let me wear that jersey No. It is fortunate Eric Davis is one of the legends of this game and in Cincinnati, too. “I can’t really put it into words right now," De La Cruz said through a translator. The cycle was the seventh in team history, fifth since 1900 and first since Eric Davis accomplished the feat against San Diego on June 2, 1989.ĭe La Cruz wears the same No. He completed it by the sixth inning with a triple that gave him four RBI. The Reds' winning streak is tied for the second-best in franchise history, matching the 19 teams for the club's longest since 1900.ĭe La Cruz became the first Cincinnati player in 34 years to hit for the cycle. In a wild matchup of National League division leaders, Cincinnati erased an early 5-0 deficit and halted Atlanta's eight-game winning streak. De La Cruz goes for cycle and Votto hits 2 clutch homers as streaking Reds stop Braves 11-10ĬINCINNATI - Dazzling rookie Elly De La Cruz hit for the cycle, Joey Votto launched tying and go-ahead homers and the Cincinnati Reds extended their winning streak to 12 games Friday night with an 11-10 victory over the Atlanta Braves.
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