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Luis Castillo
snapped his seven-start losing streak Friday as the visiting
Cincinnati Reds defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4.
The Reds won for the fourth time in five games while the
Cardinals suffered their fifth loss in their last six games.
Castillo (2-8) held the Cardinals to one run on three hits in
six innings to record his first victory since April 7. Michael
Feliz got the final out to earn his first save.
Jonathan India hit a two-run homer and Tyler Stephenson drove in
two runs with a solo homer and RBI single to power the Reds'
offense. Nick Castellanos hit two doubles to extend his hitting
streak to 20 games.
Cardinals starting pitcher Kwang Hyun Kim (1-4) allowed three
runs in three innings before departing with lower back tightness
-- the same issue that sidelined him earlier this season.
Overall, Cardinals pitchers walked four batters and hit four
others with pitches, setting a new single-game team record. One
of them, by Jake Woodford, knocked Reds first baseman Alex
Blandino out of the game with a right wrist injury.
Kim allowed just three homers in his first eight starts this
season. But India and Stephenson went deep on him in the second
inning to take a 3-0 lead.
Edmundo Sosa cut the Reds' lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the
fifth inning with his first career homer.
Castillo helped his cause by blasting a two-out RBI double to
deep center field in the sixth inning to restore the three-run
margin.
The Reds tacked on two more runs in the ninth inning off
reliever Junior Fernandez. Jesse Winker hit a one-out single,
Castellanos smacked a ground-rule double, Stephenson delivered
an RBI single and Shogo Akiyama hit into a run-scoring forceout
to make it 6-1.
The Cardinals staged a furious rally in the bottom of the ninth.
Matt Carpenter hit an RBI double off Heath Hembree and Tommy
Edman hit a two-run double off Sean Doolittle to cut the lead to
6-4.
Dylan Carlson hit a single to chase Doolittle, but Feliz struck
out Paul Goldschmidt to end the game.
--Field Level Media
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