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Rookie Aristides Aquino belted a two-run shot
and Eugenio Suarez and Joey Votto also went deep for the Reds,
who have won nine of their last 13 games.
Bauer (10-8), who was acquired from Cleveland in a three-team
deal prior to the trade deadline, allowed just one run on three
hits to improve to 4-0 in four career starts versus Chicago. The
28-year-old's 11 strikeouts boosted his season total to 200,
marking the second straight season that he reached that plateau.
Michael Lorenzen relieved Bauer to start the eighth inning and
surrendered a pair of walks and a bloop single, before Amir
Garrett came on and hit Anthony Rizzo with a breaking pitch to
trim Cincinnati's lead to 5-2. Garrett ended the threat by
getting three quick outs before Raisel Iglesias retired the side
in the ninth to secure his 23rd save.
Bauer's lone mistake came in the first inning, as Nicholas
Castellanos followed up his fifth career multi-homer performance
in Thursday's 12-5 victory by depositing a 3-1 fastball over the
center-field wall. Castellanos has hit safely in all nine games
since being acquired by the Cubs, including four homers in 36
at-bats.
Cincinnati answered in the second inning as Josh VanMeter ripped
a leadoff double before Aquino muscled a 1-0 cutter from Yu
Darvish (4-6) over the wall in right field. Aquino has belted
all four of his homers while hitting safely in each of his last
six contests.
Suarez doubled the advantage when he sent a first-pitch slider
from Darvish into the second deck in left field to lead off the
fourth inning. Suarez's team-leading 31st homer was his second
in three games overall and sixth this season against the Cubs.
Votto registered his first hit of the series in the sixth inning
by depositing a first-pitch cutter from Darvish over the wall in
left-center field.
In the seventh inning, Jose Peraza capped a nine-pitch at-bat
with a bloop single to center field, plating rookie Nick Senzel
to stake the Reds to a 5-1 lead.
--Field Level Media
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