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A series that began without a home run at the hitter-friendly
Field of Dreams park in Iowa concluded with four, including
three by the Cubs.
Aquino helped ignite the power display with his fourth homer of
the season in the second inning off Cubs starter Keegan
Thompson. The blast to left field followed walks to Donovan
Solano and Albert Almora Jr. and erased a 2-0 deficit.
The Cubs' Patrick Wisdom hit a two-run shot, his 21st of the
season, in the top of the second off Reds starter Justin Dunn.
Yan Gomes and Christopher Morel went back-to-back off Dunn in
the fourth, the latter giving Chicago its last lead at 5-4. The
homers were No. 6 for Gomes and No. 11 for Morel.
They also prompted the removal of Dunn, who was charged with
five runs on seven hits in 3 2/3 innings. He walked two and
struck out four.
The Reds tied the score on Alejo Lopez's infield out in the last
of the fourth, then took the lead for good against the Chicago
bullpen in the fifth.
Jose Barrero's two-out single scored Solano with the go-ahead
run, and Austin Romine's double to right-center sent Almora and
Barrero home and opened an 8-5 lead.
Anderson Espinoza (0-2), the second Cubs pitcher, took the loss.
Reds relievers Reiver Sanmartin, Joel Kuhnel (2-1), Buck Farmer,
Hunter Strickland and Diaz shut out the Cubs on five hits and
three walks over the final 5 1/3 innings.
Diaz came on for Strickland with one out and the bases loaded in
the eighth and struck out both Nelson Velazquez and Ian Happ,
each of whom represented the go-ahead run.
The Cubs brought the potential tying run to the plate twice in
the ninth after an error and a one-out single by Nico Hoerner.
But Diaz got Wisdom to fly out before striking out Zach
McKinstry to nail down his fifth save.
Solano, Barrero, Lopez, Romine, Jake Fraley and Kyle Farmer had
two hits apiece for the Reds, who snapped a five-game losing
streak. Solano and Almora scored twice each.
Hoerner collected three hits, including two doubles, while
Wisdom and McKinstry had two each for the Cubs, who were out-hit
13-12 while seeing their three-game winning streak come to an
end. Gomes and Wisdom had two RBIs apiece.
--Field Level Media
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