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Tony Santillan pitched a perfect eighth and
Alexis Diaz pitched the ninth for his 24th save for the Reds,
who have won three straight.
Ty France and Jeimer Candelario homered, and TJ Friedl had two
hits and scored a run for Cincinnati, which won the series
opener 6-1 on Monday night.
Nolan Arenado homered for the Cardinals, who have dropped three
in a row.
St. Louis starter Erick Fedde (8-6) surrendered four runs and
six hits in six innings, striking out two and walking two in the
two-hour game.
Cincinnati took an early lead with a two-out rally in the first
inning.
Tyler Stephenson singled to left and Friedl walked. Spencer
Steer then worked the count full before delivering a single up
the middle that drove in Stephenson for a 1-0 lead.
France led off the second by hitting a two-strike cutter over
the wall in right field for an opposite-field homer and a 2-0
lead.
Fedde had a relatively easy time over the next three innings,
but got into trouble again in the sixth.
Friedl singled to center with one out and moved to second on a
groundout. Candelario then pulled a cutter over the wall in
right for a two-run homer and a 4-0 lead.
Greene gave up a two-out double to Willson Contreras in the
first and then retired 12 in a row. He surrendered a two-out
walk in the fifth to Lars Nootbaar, who moved to third on
back-to-back wild pitches, before striking out Nolan Gorman to
end the inning.
Greene pitched around a leadoff double by Victor Scott II in the
sixth, but Arenado tagged him for a home run deep to left on the
first pitch of the seventh to cut it to 4-1.
It was the first home run allowed by Greene in his past five
starts.
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