{"id":89432,"date":"2025-06-08T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/89432\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:27:17","slug":"mclains-homer-sends-reds-past-diamondbacks-4-2-for-3-game-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/89432\/","title":{"rendered":"McLain&#8217;s homer sends Reds past Diamondbacks 4-2 for 3-game sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Matt McLain broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run homer off Zac Gallen, and the Cincinnati Reds completed a three-game sweep with a 4-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Encarnacion-Strand and Jose Trevino also homered for the Reds (33-33), who got back to .500 for the first time since May 30.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Eugenio Su\u00e1rez homered to center field for Arizona (31-34) against his former team in the second. Corbin Carroll had an RBI single in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Reds starter Brady Singer went five innings, allowing two runs and five hits. He struck out three and walked three, leaving with the score tied 2-all.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Rogers (2-2) pitched two hitless innings for the win, and Tony Santillan worked a scoreless ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n<p>Gallen (4-8) gave up four runs and six hits in 6 2\/3 innings. He struck out five and walked three.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>After Jake Fraley\u2019s two-out single in the seventh, McLain lined his seventh homer of the season into the left-field seats to chase Gallen.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Encarnacion-Strand homered in all three games of the series after coming off the injured list Friday. He had been out since April 17 with a lower back strain.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Diamondbacks: Open a three-game series Monday night at home against Seattle, with RHP Merrill Kelly (6-2, 3.43 ERA) facing Mariners righty Emerson Hancock (2-2, 5.19).<\/p>\n<p>Reds: Send lefty Wade Miley (0-0, 18.00 ERA) to the mound against right-hander Luis Ortiz (3-6, 4.02) as the Reds and Guardians open a three-game set in Cleveland on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Matt McLain broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run homer off Zac Gallen, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,757,10922,50,135,1538,38,764,92,3652,1180,1176,2566,620,1401,4,619,6922,12475,9612,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-89432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-brady-singer","13":"tag-christian-encarnacion-strand","14":"tag-cincinnati-reds","15":"tag-cleveland","16":"tag-corbin-carroll","17":"tag-diamondbacks","18":"tag-emerson-hancock","19":"tag-eugenio-suarez","20":"tag-homer","21":"tag-jake-fraley","22":"tag-jose-trevino","23":"tag-luis-ortiz","24":"tag-mariners","25":"tag-matt-mclain","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-seattle","28":"tag-taylor-rogers","29":"tag-tony-santillan","30":"tag-wade-miley","31":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114650103526560909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89432","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=89432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}