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CINCINNATI \u2014<\/p>\nMcLain homers to back Lowder in the Reds\u2019 3-2 victory over the A\u2019s<\/p>\n
CINCINNATI \u2014<\/p>\n
Matt McLain homered, Rhett Lowder won for the first time since April and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Athletics 3-2 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Reds are 12-6 since the All-Star break to improve to 55-58. The Athletics have lost seven straight to fall to 45-69. They have dropped 12 series in a row.<\/p>\n
Lowder (4-7) allowed two earned runs on four hits in sixth innings. It was his first win since April 20, spanning 11 starts and three relief appearances.<\/p>\n
Emilio Pag\u00e1n pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning for his 13th save.<\/p>\n
Sal Stewart reached on an infield single and scored on Marte\u2019s sacrifice fly to give Cincinnati a 3-2 lead in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Lawrence Butler hit his seventh home run of the season on the fourth pitch of the game off Lowder. It was his eighth career leadoff homer, first this season.<\/p>\n
Athletics starter Jacob Lopez struck out the first four batters before Noelvi Marte singled, stole second, and scored on Jose Trevino\u2019s single.<\/p>\n
Lopez allowed two earned runs on four hits through five innings with a walk and finished with nine strikeouts, one shy of his career high.<\/p>\n
McLain put the Reds ahead 2-1 in the fifth with his ninth home run of the season, and the first since June 7 when he homered twice at St. Lous. The A\u2019s tied it at 2 in the sixth when Tyler Soderstrom singled and scored on Jonah Heim\u2019s double.<\/p>\n
Hayden Juenger (0-1) was the loser.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
RHP Mason Barnett (1-1, 4.85 ERA) was set to start for the A\u2019s on Thursday in the series finale. The Reds hadn\u2019t announced a starter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLain homers to back Lowder in the Reds\u2019 3-2 victory over the A\u2019s CINCINNATI \u2014 Matt McLain homered,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[1597,537,5,535,50,4259,3930,4810,5731,526,6282,4,536,4508,1479,1646,95229,57101,3653],"class_list":["post-771139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-april","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-hit","tag-lawrence-butler","tag-lowder","tag-marte","tag-mclain","tag-mlb","tag-reds","tag-sacrifice-fly","tag-season","tag-series","tag-seventh-home-run","tag-sixth-innings","tag-victory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117046086704140214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771139","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=771139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}