CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run home run and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox 3-2 on Sunday to win their season-opening series.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Suarez\u2019s homer, his first since rejoining the Reds this offseason, came on an 0-2 pitch from Greg Weissert
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Connelly Early, 23, was the youngest pitcher to start one of the Red Sox\u2019 first three games in a season since Jeff Sellers in 1987
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Reds rookie Rhett Lowder made his first appearance since Sept. 28, 2024<\/p>\n
Suarez\u2019s homer, his first since rejoining the Reds this offseason, came on an 0-2 pitch from Greg Weissert with two runners aboard in the sixth to put Cincinnati ahead 3-2.<\/p>\n
It was his 190th homer in a Reds uniform, one shy of Brandon Phillips for 12th on the franchise\u2019s all-time list.<\/p>\n
Wilyer Abreu went 6 for 13 for Boston in the three-game series with two home runs, two doubles, and four RBIs.<\/p>\n
Connelly Early, 23, was the youngest pitcher to start one of the Red Sox\u2019 first three games in a season since Jeff Sellers in 1987 and the youngest left-hander to do so since Billy Rohr in 1967.<\/p>\n
Early pitched 5 1\/3 innings, allowing one earned run on five hits with two walks and five strikeouts over 96 pitches.<\/p>\n
Reds rookie Rhett Lowder made his first appearance since Sept. 28, 2024, after missing the entire 2025 season with both a right forearm strain and left oblique strain.<\/p>\n
Abreu, who tied the score in the ninth on Saturday with a two-out solo homer, hit a two-run homer off Lowder in the fourth to put Boston ahead 2-0.<\/p>\n
Lowder allowed two runs on three hits with two walks and five strikeouts on 86 pitches through five innings.<\/p>\n
The Red Sox had runners on first and third in the eighth but Tony Santillan struck out Caleb Durbin to end the inning.<\/p>\n
They had the tying and go-ahead runners aboard in the ninth but Emilio Pagan got Trevor Story to fly out to center for the final out.<\/p>\n
Reds designated hitter Sal Stewart, who went 7 for 10 in the series, went 2 for 2 with a double and two walks.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Red Sox: Left-hander Ranger Suarez is scheduled to start Monday’s series opener in Houston.<\/p>\n
Reds: Right-hander Chase Burns is scheduled to start Monday’s series opener in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014\u00a0Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run home run and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox 3-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,141,48,2542,535,4,169,1944,6217,6266,9263,89,2543,562,185,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-652195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-boston-red-sox","14":"tag-bostonredsox","15":"tag-cincinnati","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","20":"tag-ohio-cincinnati-top-stories","21":"tag-ohio-dayton-top-stories","22":"tag-red-sox","23":"tag-redsox","24":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116317557297577309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652195","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=652195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}