Tyler Naquin drives in four as Reds defeat Cardinals
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 [July 23, 2022] Tyler
Naquin drove in four runs and Donovan Solano homered and added three
more RBIs to power the Cincinnati Reds to a 9-5 win Friday night
over the visiting St. Louis Cardinals in the opener of a three-game
series.
Joey Votto and Jonathan India added solo homers for the Reds, who
had the win tempered by the loss of their starting catcher Tyler
Stephenson to a broken right collarbone just three batters into the
game.
After striking out the first two batters to start the game, Graham
Ashcraft and the Reds ran into bad luck when the third batter, Paul
Goldschmidt, fouled a pitch off Stephenson's right shoulder. Moments
later, Goldschmidt hit a dribbler in front of the plate and
Stephenson fielded the ball but fell to the turf in pain, unable to
make a throw to first for the final out.
Stephenson was removed from the game and replaced by Michael
Papierski, as Ashcraft later stranded a pair of runners in the
first.
Ashcraft was not as fortunate in the second, with the Cardinals
working him for 33 pitches. A two-out, two-run single to right by
Tyler O'Neill gave the visitors a 2-0 lead.
The Reds responded immediately against 40-year-old Adam Wainwright
(6-8) in the bottom of the second. The one-out rally began when
Papierski walked and Kyle Farmer doubled. Naquin's soft single to
left tied the game.
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St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright (50) pitches
against the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning at Great American
Ball Park. Mandatory Credit: Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports
Solano capped the rally with a line-drive homer to
left, his second of the season, that put Cincinnati up, 4-2.
The Reds made it 5-2 in the third when Votto lofted a fly ball to
left that found the first row of seats for his seventh homer of the
season and his fifth career against Wainwright.
Wainwright allowed seven runs on five hits over 5 1/3 innings and
fell to 10-17 lifetime against the Reds, the most losses against any
team in his career.
On a hot and humid night, Ashcraft, a rookie making his 11th major
league start, threw a career-high 112 pitches and matched a career
high with eight strikeouts but fell one out shy of qualifying for
the win. After giving up a two-run homer to Goldschmidt in the fifth
that cut Cincinnati's lead to 5-4, Ashcraft got the next two
batters, but Dylan Carlson's single ended his night.
Lefty Reiver Sanmartin (4-4) came on to strike out left-hitting
Brendan Donovan, the only batter he faced, to end the fifth and
record the win.
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol was ejected for arguing balls and
strikes in the eighth.
--Field Level Media
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