Tyler Stephenson led a two-point circuit for one of his three strokes, Nick Martinez launched seven quality heats and the Visit Cincinnati Reds beat the Kansas City Royals 7-4 on Monday.
Stephenson came by hitting .177, but equaled the total personal hit of his six previous games. He had three points produced for the Reds, who obtained two strokes each of TJ Friedl, Santiago Espinal and Garrett Hampson.
Martinez (3-5) produced six strokes without walking, and the three points he authorized to have allowed the seventh, including the two-point circuit of Salvador Perez. Cincinnati won two of the three after losing three games in a row.
The Reds made their way with the starter of Kansas City, Michael Lorenzen (3-6), who granted six points, 11 strokes and three walks in five rounds. He scored the first time this season, a starter of the Royals has granted more than five points in a competition.
Cincinnati did not waste time climbing on the dashboard. Friedl opened the match with a double that reached the right field wall and finally returned home on the sacrificial fly of Austin Hays.
The Reds added three other points in the third when they hit five strokes against Lorenzen. Gavin Lux and Stephenson each delivered singles RBI and Will Benson came with the second sacrifice bag from Cincinnati to the right field.
Meanwhile, Martinez authorized her first base in the fourth via via the singles to the old red Jonathan India and Vinnie Pasquantino. However, he avoided any damage after Perez founded a double game of 4-3 end of the round.
In the fifth, the highest point of the great day of Stephenson came when he sent a lead from the first step from Lorenzen, with a man, well above the wall of the left field.
The Royals finally arrived in Martinez in the seventh. After the second single of Pasquantino, Perez did a circuit trading in the left field for the first additional blow of Kansas City. Maikel Garcia then doubled and finally scored on the fly of the sacrifice of Nick Loftin.
Espinal provided insurance a double RBI in the eighth.
Kansas City loaded the bags in the ninth, but placed a single round via Emilio Pagan’s Balk. The Royals totaled 11 points while losing three of the four.
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