KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Blake Dunn hit a single in the 10th inning to drive in automatic runner Spencer Steer and give the Cincinnati Reds a 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Steer homered twice and Will Benson hit a tying solo shot in the ninth for the Reds, who only had four hits in the game.<\/p>\n
The Royals led 3-2 when pinch-hitter Benson homered off Royals closer Lucas Erceg.<\/p>\n
The Royals had runners on first and third with one out in the 10th, but Jac Caglianone lined out to short and Brock Burke (2-2) struck out Kyle Isbel to end the threat.<\/p>\n
Royals left-hander Noah Cameron allowed one hit \u2014 Steer’s solo home run in the fifth \u2014 and struck out eight with no walks in seven innings.<\/p>\n
Kansas City had lost eight of Cameron’s 10 starts this season but he was dominant on Tuesday, tying career highs with seven innings pitched and eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Cameron, who took a no-hitter into the seventh in his major league debut on April 30, retired the first 13 batters he faced on Tuesday with four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
With one out in the fifth, Steer hit a solo home run for the Reds’ first hit. Cameron struck out three batters in the fifth and retired seven straight following Steer’s homer.<\/p>\n
John Schreiber (0-3) took the loss.<\/p>\n
Reds left-hander Andrew Abbott, who had a 1.85 ERA over his previous six starts, allowed three earned runs on five hits in six innings.<\/p>\n
All three runs, four of the five hits and two of four walks allowed by Abbott came in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n
The Royals loaded the bases twice in the fourth. The first run scored from third on Caglianone’s groundout. Two more runs scored on Michael Massey’s two-out single.<\/p>\n
Steer homered again in the eighth off Matt Strahm to cut the Reds’ deficit to 3-2. It was Steer’s fourth career multihome run game.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Royals RHP Stephen Kolek (3-1, 3.48 ERA) opposes Reds RHP Chase Burns (7-1, 1.96) in Wednesday’s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Blake Dunn hit a single in the 10th inning to drive in automatic runner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,231,2123,1107,2602,1103,2128,4,1357,536],"class_list":["post-715953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-kansas-city","tag-lucas-erceg","tag-matt-quatraro","tag-matt-strahm","tag-michael-massey","tag-mlb","tag-noah-cameron","tag-reds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116684323809561995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715953","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=715953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}