Eugenio Suarez and Adam Duvall each notched three hits while Jay Bruce reached base five times as the Reds won their third road game of the season on Sunday by taking a 9-4 victory over the Phillies, snapping a three-game losing streak.
“Today is a big day, a different day,” Suarez said. “We finally did good with men in scoring position.”
Duvall’s RBI double and Tucker Barnhart’s RBI single in the second inning off Phillies lefty Adam Morgan gave Cincinnati a 2-0 lead. Timely hitting and Philadelphia miscues opened up opportunities for the Reds in the fourth.
The bases were loaded with one out when Morgan walked Reds starting pitcher Dan Straily — hitless in his 12 career plate appearances — on four pitches to force home a run. Next, Tyler Holt hit a potential double-play ball to first baseman Ryan Howard, who had trouble getting the ball out of his glove before making the force-play throw to second. That enabled Suarez to bat and drive a 3-2 Morgan pitch to center for a three-run homer and a 7-0 lead.
Morgan allowed seven earned runs and eight hits over 3 2/3 innings with three walks and one strikeout.
“Right from the gate, I felt like I was searching for the rhythm and the tempo and it was just one of those days where the command wasn’t there,” Morgan said.
Straily flirted with danger all afternoon, as he stranded a runner in scoring position in each of his five shutout innings. While throwing 109 pitches, Straily gave up six hits and three walks with six strikeouts.
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