Normally, Friday night is reserved for fireworks at Great American Ball Park. But the D-backs brought their own on Sunday.
With a four-homer performance, Arizona salvaged the third game of the series by topping the Reds, 9-8, and ending a four-game losing streak. Yasmany Tomas delivered the first one — a solo shot in the second. Welington Castillo followed in the third with a three-run shot, Paul Goldschmidt delivered a leadoff solo homer in the fifth, which broke a 5-5 tie, and Tomas delivered the final blow in the eighth, another solo shot.
The Reds nearly mounted a ninth-inning comeback after two walks set Jay Bruce up for a three-run homer to bring the game within one. Although the game ultimately didn’t fall the Reds’ way, they still managed to finish their homestand 6-3 and won all three series. Reds starter Brandon Finnegan, who went five innings, allowed six of the nine runs on seven hits, including three of the four homers. It’s the fourth straight outing for Finnegan in which he was unable to get an out in the sixth.
“I went back and looked at all three of the home runs, and all three were down and exactly where [catcher Ramon] Cabrera called them,” Finnegan said. “The pitch that Goldschmidt hit was in on his hands. It wasn’t even on the plate. It just wasn’t my day.”
D-backs starter Zack Godley didn’t perform much better, allowing five runs through the first three innings, but he ended up settling down to give Arizona 5 2/3 innings and didn’t allow a run over his last 2 2/3. The Reds’ five runs came as they scattered singles, recording eight of their 10 hits in the first three frames. Of the 10 hits Godley gave up, all 10 were singles.
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