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The Reds bullpen pitched the entire game and held the Cleveland Guardians to a single run in a 4-1 victory.
The Reds go two games up on the Ohio Cup and won their third straight contest.
Brent Suter pitched three scoreless innings to start the game for the Reds.
"Suter does that with enthusiasm. When he's out there every body seams to have more pep in their step," Terry Francona said.
Chase Petty's turn came up and Terry Francona elected to go with Suter as an "opener".
The Guardians sent Slade Cecconi to the mound for his first start of the season. Cecconi was dealing with an oblique strain from early spring training.
"Normally on a night like that you have to be careful but no one got fried," Francona said. "DJ (pitching coach Derek Johnson) and I talked before the game. We decided we were going to go inning by inning and keep taking the temperature."
Lyon Richardson replaced Suter and gave up a leadoff home run in the fifth inning to Daniel Schneemann, his sixth of the season.
Will Benson hit his third home run in three days to tie the score in the bottom of the fifth inning. It was his third of the season.
"Once Will tied the game, we were so invested in the bullpen and we won. You'd hate to lose a game like that."
TJ Friedl doubled to lead off the sixth. Santiago Espinal indicated that he was going to bunt Friedl to third. Instead he drew his bat back and hit a line drive over the head of the second baseman, Schneemann.
"I saw they were kind of like breaking everybody," Espinal said. "In my mind I was going to put the ball in play. That doesn't work very often but with the shortstop going to third, the second baseman going to first. I was trying to go through the middle or where nobody was. Thankfully I hit a line drive."
Friedl scored. Austin Hays hit a double off the left field wall to score Espinal. Hays went to third on Jose Ramirez throw home.
Luis Mey and Graham Ashcraft pitched a scoreless inning apiece.
Mey got the credit for his first career win.
"My teammates were really happy for me," said Mey, who dropped his ERA to 1.08. "I want to deal with the pressure. I'm happy the Reds gave me the opportunity. I want to stay here forever."
Rece Hinds connected with two outs in the seventh for his second home run of the season. The blow to straight away center off former Red, Jakob Junis gave the Reds a three-run lead.
Tony Santillan retired the dangerous Ramirez to complete a scoreless eighth inning.
Emilio Pagan picked up his 11th save of the year with a perfect ninth.
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