CES, batting for Martini, hit into the double play. Hunter Renfroe, batting for Fraley, struck out. Noelvi Marte, batting for Will Benson, singled to put runners on second and first with no outs, the Reds still down, 4-1.

For five innings, De La Cruz was the only Cincinnati hitter to reach base, twice via walks.Īfter his second walk, he stole second but was picked off second base. Nick Senzel, batting for De La Cruz, singled. When it was 4-1, the Tigers sent in left-hander Tyler Holton in the eighth and Bell sent up four straight right-handed pinch-hitters. Joey Votto hit into a double play in the seventh and pinch-hitter Christian Encarnacion-Strand hit into one in the eighth - three double plays in three innings when the Reds trailed by three. Martini’s double play was a bad harbinger.

Martini hit into a double play and Spencer Steer launched his team-leading 21st home run, the 55th hit by a Reds rookie this season, a club record. Rookie right-hander Reese Olson started for the Tigers and held the Reds hitless for five innings until Jake Fraley singled leading off the sixth. He had Nick Martini batting second for the first time, he had TJ Friedl batting clean-up for the first time in his career and he dropped Elly De La Cruz all the way to eighth. Until the home run off Lively, the Tigers had put runners on base in 14 of the last 15 innings in the series and stranded 17 with only six scoring.īell, observing his 51st birthday, concocted a strange batting order for this important game. When he gave up a two-run home run to Akil Baddoo in the fourth inning, it concluded 23 consecutive scoreless innings by the Reds bullpen.

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