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Farmer, who received a cortisone shot for his sore back on
Sunday, missed the first three games of the series before
returning to the lineup to face left-handed starter Justin
Steele. Farmer went 4-for-4 and matched a career high with five
RBIs.
The Reds shellacked the Cubs for 20 runs on 20 hits,
Cincinnati's first 20-run game since pounding eight home runs in
a 22-3 blowout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Sept. 4, 1999.
The offensive explosion was enough to end the six-game personal
losing streak of Cincinnati rookie starter Hunter Greene (2-6).
The right-hander battled through five innings, allowing five
runs on seven hits and three home runs. He walked two and struck
out six.
Greene's last win came in his major league debut on April 10 in
Atlanta. Nico Hoerner, Willson Contreras and Ian Happ unloaded
off Greene on Thursday.
The Reds began their comeback from an early 3-0 hole in the
bottom of the second inning when Farmer homered to left-center
off Steele with Tyler Stephenson aboard, cutting the Chicago
lead to 3-2.
After Greene finally recorded his first scoreless inning in the
third, the offense rewarded him with their biggest single inning
production of the season, featuring 11 batters, six hits and
eight runs.
Cubs starter Steele (1-5) failed to retire any of the five
batters he faced in the third, getting knocked from the game
when Stephenson drove home two runs with a single that snapped a
3-3 tie.
Steele was charged with seven runs on seven hits, striking out
two and walking two.
The Reds added five more in the eighth off Andrelton Simmons,
who made his pitching debut as a positional player.
Brandon Drury, Tommy Pham, Albert Almora Jr. and Matt Reynolds
contributed three RBIs apiece for Cincinnati. Nick Senzel went
4-for-4 with three runs and an RBI, and Stephenson had three
hits, three runs and two RBIs.
The game was halted for 59 minutes after the fifth inning due to
heavy rains that soaked the field.
For a second straight game, Cubs manager David Ross was ejected
for arguing from the dugout after one of his batters was hit
with a fastball. In the seventh inning and the Reds up eight,
Contreras, who admired his 441-foot homer earlier in the game,
was hit by reliever Joel Kuhnel.
--Field Level Media
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