The Cincinnati Reds needed to play from behind early, however after the Cardinals scored a run within the high of the first inning their bats went silent. The Reds have been in a position to scrape collectively single runs in three totally different innings in the course of the sport and the pitching took care of the remainder as they defeated the Cardinals 3-1 to open up their 4-game collection.
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St. Louis Cardinals (12-17)
8
13
0
Cincinnati Reds (16-13)
7
10
2
W: Martinez (1-3) L: Pallante (2-2) SV: Pagan (8)
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Nick Martinez hasn’t been practically pretty much as good in 2025 as he had been in 2024. And after the St. Louis Cardinals had two doubles that led to a run within the high of the first inning issues could have been hitting that “uh oh, right here we go once more” stage for some on-lookers. However Martinez settled in after Nolan Arenado’s RBI double and saved the Cardinals off the board in each the 2nd and third innings.
Jose Trevino led off the underside of the third inning with a game-tying residence run. And inning later the Reds would take the lead when Gavin Lux singled and got here round to attain on a triple into left-center.
St. Louis didn’t simply roll over. Within the high of the fifth inning they’d get a leadoff double from Pedro Pages after which Victor Scott drew a stroll to place two males on with no outs within the 1-run ballgame. That’s when Masyn Winn laid down a bunt, however Jose Trevino made an excellent play to discipline in and hearth to 3rd on the run to get the lead runner. Lars Nootbar completely bought into the ball, however his arduous grounder at 105 MPH off the bat was snagged on one hop by Matt McLain who spun and threw to second the place Elly De La Cruz caught it, stepped on the bottom and fired to first to finish a double play to finish the menace and the inning.
Cincinnati tacked on a run within the backside of the sixth inning with somewhat assist from the Cardinals starter Andre Pallante. He issued a 1-out stroll to Austin Hays and it turned out to be a kind of walks that haunts as a result of the following pitch noticed Gavin Lux ship a double the opposite means and Hays rating from first base to make it 3-1.
Nick Martinez turned the sport over to the bullpen to start the seventh inning as he accomplished his greatest outing of the yr. The relievers picked up the place he left off. Graham Ashcraft struck out the aspect in an ideal seventh. Tony Santillan picked up a strikeout in an ideal eighth inning. After which Emilio Pagan threw an ideal ninth inning to select up his eighth save of the season and lengthen the Reds successful streak to 5 video games.
Key Second of the Sport
The Reds protection within the fifth inning. It began with Jose Trevino’s play on the tried sacrifice bunt to get the lead runner at third and it completed with Matt McLain’s spotlight reel double play to finish the inning.
Notes Price Noting
Elly De La Cruz prolonged his hitting streak to 12 video games and his on-base streak to 17 video games.
Gavin Lux additionally prolonged his hitting streak to 12 video games and his on-base streak sits at 13 video games. He’s hitting .352/.438/.473 this season by 27 video games.
Noelvi Marte had successful and two walks. Via his first 13 video games with the Reds this season he’s hitting .370/.431/.696 with 5 walks and simply six strikeouts.
Reds hitters walked 4 instances and solely struck out 4 instances within the recreation. Reds pitchers solely walked two batters and had seven strikeouts.
Up Subsequent for the Cincinnati Reds
St. Louis Cardinals vs Cincinnati Reds
Tuesday, April 29, 6:40pm ET
Brady Singer (4-0, 3.62 ERA) vs Miles Mikolas (0-2, 5.70 ERA)
