Brandon Williams pitched deep into the game to catch the Miami Marlins in his pitching net to end the Reds' six-game losing streak in a 5-2 win for the home team.
Both teams are close to each other in the Wild Card race and both entered the game on losing streaks. The Reds is six games. The Marlins are on a four-game losing streak and lost six of its last seven.
Jorge Soler started the scoring lifting an offering from Brandon Williamson into the first row of the right field stands for his 27th long ball of the season.
Eury Perez, all of 20 years old stuffed the first seven Reds' hitters, four on strikeouts before Will Benson and Elly De La Cruz walked. TJ Friedl got the Reds' first hit with two outs, a line drive just inside the right field foul line with a triple to put the Reds in front.
The Reds added to their lead with its fifth set of back-to-back home runs off Perez to start the fourth. Christian Encarnacion-Strand lined his second home run into the left field stands. Joey Votto launched his 13th homer deep into the right field seats.
Williamson cruised through the sixth inning. He retired 17 batters without a hit, striking out a career-high nine. The lone runner Jon Berti reached on an error by Elly De La Cruz. Josh Bell reached on an infield hit to start the seventh. Bryan De La Cruz singled past Spencer Steer at third base. Jake Burger hit a soft ground ball to Votto, who flipped to Williamson covering as the runners moved up. Jesus Sanchez, who entered the game when Avisail Garcia was ejected, popped foul to Steer. David Bell removed Williamson, having equaled his longest career outing. Lucas Sims struck out Yuli Gurriel to keep the margin at three.
The Reds put up an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh. Friedl singled one out into the inning. He stole second and scampered to third on a throwing error by Nick Fortes. Steer delivered him with a fly to deep center.
Jazz Chisholm hit his first career pinch hit home run and 11th of the season to lead off the eighth against Ian Gibaut. Berti hit a bad hop single. Steer nearly turned a double play. First base umpire Rob Drake called Soler out but a replay revealed Soler was safe. Gibaut struck out Josh Bell.
Alexis Diaz made his first game since Friday. He earned his 33rd save in his 34th attempt by getting league's leading hitter Luis Arraez to hit into a game ending double play.
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