Eugenio Suarez Delivers Against Cubs.

Eugenio Suarez is only a household name in his own household but famous or not the Chicago Cubs are painfully aware of him.

The Venezuela born third baseman planted his team-leading 16th home run on the front lawn of the batters' eye in centerfield with Joey Votto on base to put the Reds on top of a 6-3 win and claim the National League RBI lead with 57.  Trevor Story of Colorado has 56 heading into his game against Milwaukee.

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"It feels great.  We're playing really good baseball right now," said Suarez after the Reds' fifth straight win.  "The at bat before he threw me a change up like that. I told myself to stay back.  I just try to help the team.  When you work hard, it pays off."

The blast in the Reds' three-run fifth wiped out the Cubs 3-1 lead.

The Reds scored first.  Last month's catching find Curt Casalli doubled with one out against Cubs' starter Jose Quintana.  Reds starter Luis Castillo singled Casalli to third.  The suddenly hot, Billy Hamilton, drove in Casali with a single.  Hamilton extended his hitting streak to five games.

The Cubs fought back against Castillo, who turned in another fine performance by a Reds' rookie pitcher.  The Cubs used small ball and long ball.

"Overall I pitched pretty good," Castillo said.

The Reds starters have had 10 straight games pitching at least five innings with less than three runs.  The bullpen has thrown 6 1/3 scoreless innings against the Cubs in the past two nights.

"We are like a family, starters and relievers," Castillo said.  "When someone does good we're happy. When someone doesn't we've got their back."

Ben Zobrist doubled with one out in the fourth.  It was the Cubs' first hit.  Anthony Rizzo bounced out to first, sending Zobrist to third.  Javier Baez caught the Reds infield back with a perfectly placed bunt single that scored Zobrist.  Middletown Ohio native Kyle Schwarber launched an opposite field home run, his 15th.  The Cubs led 3-1.

Suarez took care of the lead in the fifth.

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Jose Peraza opened with a single. Alex Blandino struck out.  Votto singled sharply to left.  Suarez hit his blast and the Reds had the lead.

Votto walked in the seventh.  Suarez and Adam Duvall singled to add the fifth run.

Castillo worked into the sixth.   Zobrist singled with one out.  Rizzo popped to short.  The newest Red, Kyle Crockett, came in and froze Schwarber with a breaking ball for a called third strike.

Castillo picked up his fifth win with 5 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits and a walk.  He struck out five.

"Castillo did a good job getting us to that point," Riggleman said.  "We're playing really good baseball right now."

David Hernandez struck out two in a pair of scoreless innings.

The  Reds added a marker in the eighth. Peraza singled with two outs and stole second his third of the game and 13th of the season.  Blandino singled to drive Peraza home.

Raisel Iglesias entered to earn his 12th save in 14 chances with a perfect ninth.