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The Reds opened a series against the mystique of the New York Yankees and came back to defeat the defending American League champions, 6-1.
The win gave the Reds its second win in as many games and lifted them three games over the .500 make
As advertised, Aaron Judge hit his 28th home run in the first inning against Reds' starter Nick Lodolo.
The left hander survived two doubles and a single mixed in with a long drive to center field by Judge in the third inning. He kept the Yankees off he scoreboard into the bottom of the fifth inning.
Allan Winans came to the Yankees from the Atlanta Braves in spring training. He made nine starts for Scranton Wilkes-Barre and built a 7-0 record and an 0.90 ERA. He faced the Reds with the Braves last season and the Reds hung seven earned runs on him.
Winans gave up an infield hit to Spencer Steer but faced the minimum nine batters in the first three innings when Tyler Stephenson hit into a double play.
The Reds fourth was a revival for the Reds. TJ Friedl grounded out to the first baseman, Paul Goldschmidt. Winans hit the suddenly hot Matt Mclain with a pitch. Elly De La Cruz hit a line drive, 110 mph, over Cody Bellinger's head in center for a triple. Steer drove him home with a line out to left. Gavin Lux slammed an 0-2 pitch into the Yankees bullpen on a line in right field. It was Lux' fourth homer of the season.
"I love it when Elly gets dirty, we're good," Francona said. "He can puke on the field all he wants."
"When I'm dirty, it means I did something, today," De La Cruz agreed.
The Yankees threatened Lodolo in the top of the fifth. Jasson Dominguez reached on an infield single. Goldshmidt hit a line drive to the wall in right but Jake Fraley made a leaping catch for the first out. Bellinger dumped a single just out of the reach of third baseman, Christian Encarnacion-Strand.
Terry Francona lifted Lodolo to allow Scott Barlow to face Judge. Barlow retired Judge on one pitch with a fly out to shallow center, then struck out Giancarlo Stanton looking to preserve the lead.
The Reds chased Winans in the bottom of the fifth. He hit Fraley to open the inning. CES flied out. Friedl singled Fraley to third. Aaron Boone brought in Ian Hamilton, who walked McLain to load the bases. De La Cruz hit a run scoring single to right. Steer hit into a 6-4-3 double play on a 3-1 pitch.
Barlow retired all five batters that he faced. "That team is going to get on base for sure. Limiting damage is huge and you don't want to create more by nibbling around the zone. You stay on the attack. It gives you the best option," Barlow said.
Barlow faced the Yankees 13 times while in the American League. "Anytime you get to have that rapport where you know what the see off you and you can avoid that. It is helpful," Barlow said.
"It looked like it was starting to get messy," Terry Francona said. "He did a great job. It's amazing how much we miss (Graham) Ashcraft. You get to that point in the middle of the game. It doesn't always work out but he (Barlow) clutched up."
The Reds used starter Nick Martinez in relief and he pitched a scoreless seventh.
"We talked about this in St. Louis. I called Singer and Martinez in," Francona said. "One was going to pitch Wednesday and the other Friday. Singer really wanted to stay on his regular routine. Martinez said, 'I don't care this way I can give you an inning tomorrow. I'm not sure if it was anybody else, I'd really believe him but he's so good about that. I told him that really fired me up."
Lodolo pitched 4 1/3 innings, allowing one run on six hits, no walks and three strikeouts.
"I thought he had good stuff but give them credit. He got to two strikes and they fouled off a ton of pitches to get his pitch count up. I wanted to leave him out the but when Bellinger's hit fell in. You start managing with your heart instead of, that's not a good thing," Francona said.
Tony Santillan gave up a bloop double to Bellinger and walked Judge with no outs but he fanned both Stanton and Jazz Chisholm. He ended the inning getting Anthony Volpe on a ground out.
De La Cruz deposited his 18th home run into the right field stands. It came right handed off lefty Tim Hill.
Al Leiter Jr. relieved Hill. Steer singled for his second hit of the game. Steer stole second and with two outs scored from second on an infield hit by former Yankee, Jose Trevino.
It was no longer a save situation but the Reds went with Emilio Pagan because he was already warm. He faced the bottom three in the Yankee's lineup. He had no trouble with them. allowing just a two-out single.
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