Five of Cincinnati\u2019s first six runs came on four Detroit errors and a wild pitch.<\/p>\n
In addition, it was Elly De La Cruz day as the Reds performed another of their oddities, coming from behind to win for only the 12th time this season.<\/p>\n
De La Cruz had three hits that included a game-tying single and a two-run home in the ninth to increase the Reds lead from 6-4 to 8-4.<\/p>\n
The Reds were down, 4-2, when they came to bat in the eighth. Aided by two errors and a wild pitch, they scored four times.<\/p>\n
When De La Cruz came to bat it was 4-3 and he banged a run-scoring single to tie it.<\/p>\n
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And it was 6-4 when he came to bat in the ninth. Just to put the game farther out of reach, De La Cruz did what he has done daily recently. He lined an opposite-field two-run home run to make it 8-4.<\/p>\n
Home runs are spewing off De La Cruz\u2019s bat like an open tap. He homered in all three games in Detroit and has four homers in his last four games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m taking my same approach,\u201d he told reporters after the game about his current sizzle. \u201cI\u2019m always ready to go. Every time I go to the plate I go with a plan and I execute it.\u201d<\/p>\n
And he executes the opposing pitcher.<\/p>\n
Before his single to tie the game, Detroit pitcher Will Vest blew two scorching fastballs on which De La Cruz swung and missed. Badly.<\/p>\n
Vest then tried to get cute and sneak a change-up past him and Elly De La Cruz lined it for the game\u2019s most important hit.<\/p>\n
De La Cruz often has said that running the bases is his favorite thing and was asked in a post-game interview if he might change his mind and prefer home runs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like hitting homers, but I have more fun running the bases,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I enjoy both.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He has 16 homers and 20 stolen bases, five behind MLB leader Jose Caballero of the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n
The day\u2019s pitching match-up was Cincinnati\u2019s 38-year old left-hander Wade Miley against the Detroit bullpen, a \u2018Bullpen Day\u2019 for the Tigers.<\/p>\n
Miley gave the Reds five strong innings. Both runs he gave up came on solo home runs by Jahmai Jones in the third and Wenceel Perez in the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Reds took a 2-1 lead in the fourth, an inning started by \u2014 who else \u2014 De La Cruz. He grounded to the mound and beat it for a single and continued to second on pitcher Sawyer Gipson-Long\u2019s throwing error.<\/p>\n
Tyler Stephenson singled to score De La Cruz and another error, this one by shortstop Javier Baez, enabled Stephenson to reach third. He scored on Connor Joe\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Graham Ashcraft arrived to pitch the seventh and he gave up two runs and three hits to provide the Tigers with a 4-2 lead, a lead the Tigers usually guard and protect ferociously.<\/p>\n
But then came the mayhem in the Reds\u2019 eighth, another inning started by a Detroit pitcher\u2019s error.<\/p>\n
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Vest bobbled TJ Friedl\u2019s grounder to the mound, scrambled after it, then threw high, wide and ugly to first base, an error that permitted Friedl to reach second.<\/p>\n
Matt McLain singled and took and De La Cruz tied it with his hit.<\/p>\n
Christian Encarnacion-Strand reached on Detroit\u2019s second error of the inning and fourth of the game, a bobble by third baseman Zach McKinstry that permitted the inning\u2019s third run and pinch-hitter Will Benson\u2019s sacrifice fly was the inning\u2019s fourth run and a 6-4 lead for the Reds.<\/p>\n
Even though Ashcraft coughed up the lead in the seventh, when the Reds scored four in the eighth to take the lead that they held, Ashcraft was the winning pitcher.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the kind of day it was for the Reds.<\/p>\n
And the loser was Vest, who was 5-and-0 when he took the mound.<\/p>\n
In addition to De La Cruz\u2019s day, Santiago Espinal had three hits and Matt McLain, moved from the bottom of the order back to the No. 2 spot, where he began the season, had two hits, scored two runs and drove in one.<\/p>\n
NEXT GAME<\/p>\n
Who: Minnesota at Cincinnati<\/p>\n
When: 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, June 17<\/p>\n
TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n
Radio: 1410-AM, 700-AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then why? In one of the most complexing statistics imaginable, 39 straight times the Reds had lost the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[2514,5,147,53,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-106612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-2514","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-detroittigers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114689743757167313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}