Elly De La Cruz delivered the game-winning RBI in the top of the 10th inning and the Cincinnati Reds erased a four-run deficit in a 5-4 win against the host Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.
Reds reliever Brock Burke (5-4) was perfect in the ninth to earn the win, snapping his team’s three-game losing streak. Emilio Pagan tossed a 1-2-3 10th inning for his 14th save.
Cincinnati starter Nick Lodolo allowed four runs on five hits and fanned five in four innings in his first game back after missing a month due to a finger blister.
Sean Burke was stellar through seven innings for the White Sox, who had won their previous two games. He struck out eight while holding Cincinnati to a run on three hits and no walks.
In the top of the 10th, automatic runner Matt McLain went to third on a Michael Toglia flyout and scored on a sacrifice fly from De La Cruz against Sean Newcomb (1-3) for the decisive run.
After struggling to generate much against Burke, the Reds’ bats connected in the eighth against reliever Bryan Hudson to erase a three-run deficit.
McLain and Toglia singled, and De La Cruz sent a base hit into right field, bringing in McLain and narrowing the deficit to 4-2.
That ended Hudson’s brief outing, as Grant Taylor entered.
Toglia and De La Cruz advanced when Sal Stewart flied out to right. JJ Bleday walked, and Tyler Stephenson’s two-run single to right tied the game 4-4.
Brenton Doyle put Chicago ahead 1-0 in the first with a leadoff homer. He launched a first-pitch sinker 415 feet over the wall in left-center field.
Edgar Quero doubled the margin in the second when he connected on a changeup and belted a two-out homer to left.
Miguel Vargas homered to left-center leading off the fourth, pushing Chicago’s lead to 3-0.
Randal Grichuk followed with a double to left field and went to third on Braden Montgomery’s ensuing groundout. With two outs, Sam Antonacci doubled to center field, driving in Grichuk and making it 4-0.
Eugenio Suarez notched Cincinnati’s first hit of the game leading off the fifth, belting a fastball over the left-center-field wall.
–Field Level Media
